Items where Author is "Soper, Alan"

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aggregation techniques algorithms approximation algorithm automation autonomic computing autonomic marketing autonomic system autonomicity case-base reasoning certification clustering coarsening Combinatorial optimisation combinatorial optimization computer architecture computer networks datacentre dependability direction drawing evolutionary search expert systems flow shop scheduling force directed placement FUELGEN expert system fuzzy logic fuzzy systems genetic algorithms genetic programming graph graph-partitioning heuristics Higher Order Neural Networks Hopfield neural networks intelligent information retrieval interoperability IT knowledge management level of autonomicity linear relaxation LoA manufacturing plant control material selection metaheuristic metrics multi-manager multilevel optimisation multilevel refinement neural networks non-linear representation nuclear engineering nuclear fuel nuclear reactors nuclear science P-median Power of pre-emption power of preemption qualitative attributes quality of a single preemption reactor refueling Scheduling scheduling with transportation segment transfers sensor selection soft computing Tabu search Total completion time transportation trees (mathematics) trends trustability trustworthiness trustworthy architecture tutoring Uniformly related machines unrelated parallel machines validation vector Quantisation vehicle routing

Number of items: 115.

aggregation techniques

Rodney, Demane, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 (2007) The application of multilevel refinement to the vehicle routing problem. 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., New York, USA, pp. 212-219. ISBN 9781424407040 (doi:10.1109/SCIS.2007.367692)

algorithms

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 (2001) A generational scheme for partitioning graphs. In: Spector, Lee and Goodman, Erik D., (eds.) GECCO-2001: proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: a joint meeting of the sixth annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2001) and the tenth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2001): July 7-11, 2001. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, USA, pp. 607-614. ISBN 978-1558607743

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Robbins, P. (1998) A redundant representation for use by genetic algorithms on parameter optimisation problems. In: International Conference on Artificial Neural Net and Genetic Algorithms, 1997, 1-4 April, 1997, Norwich, England.

approximation algorithm

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Strusevich, Vitaly A. (2007) An approximation algorithm for the two-machine flow shop with a single transporter. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (ijfcs), 18 (3). pp. 565-591. ISSN 0129-0541 (doi:10.1142/S012905410700484X)

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Strusevich, Vitaly A. (2007) An improved approximation algorithm for the two-machine flow shop scheduling problem with an interstage transporter. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 18 (3). pp. 565-591. ISSN 0129-0541 (doi:10.1142/S012905410700484X)

automation

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Strusevich, Vitaly A. (2006) Two-machine flow shop scheduling with an interstage transporter: two shipments. In: Dolgui, Alexandre, Morel, Gerard and Pereira, Carlos Eduardo, (eds.) Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 2006: A Proceedings volume from the 12th IFAC International Symposium, St Etienne, France, 17-19 May 2006. IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 3 . Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp. 27-32. ISBN 978-0-08-044654-7

autonomic computing

Eze, Thaddeus, Anthony, Richard, Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (2013) A methodology for evaluating complex interactions between multiple autonomic managers. In: The Ninth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2013). Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, USA, pp. 53-56. ISBN 9781612082578

Eze, Thaddeus O., Anthony, Richard J., Walshaw, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (2012) Autonomic computing in the first Decade: trends and direction. In: ICAS 2012, The Eighth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems. IARIA Conferences . IARIA, pp. 80-85. ISBN 978-1-61208-187-8

autonomic marketing

Eze, Thaddeus, Anthony, Richard, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Walshaw, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 (2012) A generic approach towards measuring level of autonomicity in adaptive systems. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, 5 (3 & 4). pp. 553-566. ISSN 1942-2679

Eze, Thaddeus O., Anthony, Richard J., Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (2012) A new architecture for trustworthy autonomic systems. In: EMERGING 2012: The Fourth International Conference on Emerging Network Intelligence. Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, USA, pp. 62-68. ISBN 9781622763986

autonomic system

Eze, Thaddeus, Anthony, Richard, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Walshaw, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 (2012) A technique for measuring the level of autonomicity of self-managing systems. In: ICAS 2012, The Eighth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems. IARIA Conferences . IARIA, pp. 8-13. ISBN 978-1-61208-187-8

autonomicity

Eze, Thaddeus O., Anthony, Richard J., Walshaw, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (2011) The challenge of validation for autonomic and self-managing systems. In: ICAS 2011: Seventh International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems. IARIA, pp. 128-133. ISBN 9781612081342

case-base reasoning

Mejasson, Patrick, Petridis, Miltos, Knight, Brian, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Norman, Phil (2001) Intelligent design assistant (IDA): a case base reasoning system for material and design. Materials and Design, 22 (3). pp. 163-170. ISSN 0261-3069 (doi:10.1016/S0261-3069(00)00066-2)

certification

clustering

Rodney, Demane, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Walshaw, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 (2008) Multilevel approaches applied to the capacitated clustering problem. In: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing, CSC 2008, July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. CSREA Press, USA, pp. 271-277. ISBN 9781601320599

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (1998) A higher order Hopfield network for vector quantisation. Neural Computing & Applications, 7 (2). pp. 99-106. ISSN 0941-0643 electronic 1433-3058

coarsening

Rodney, Demane, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 (2007) Multilevel refinement strategies for the capacity vehicle routing problem. International Journal of Information Technology & Intelligent Computing, 2 (3).

Combinatorial optimisation

combinatorial optimization

computer architecture

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (1998) Exploring genetic alternative concepts for FUELGEN. New Review of Applied Expert Systems, 4. pp. 185-194. ISSN 1361-0244

computer networks

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and McKenzie, S. (1997) The use of a biased heuristic by a genetic algorithm applied to the design of multipoint connections in a local access network. IET Seminar Digest, 446. pp. 113-116. ISSN 0537-9989 (doi:10.1049/cp:19971165)

datacentre

dependability

direction

drawing

Crawford, Carl, Walshaw, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (2012) A multilevel force-directed graph drawing algorithm using multilevel global force approximation. In: Information Visualization - Visualisation, BioMedical Visualization, Visualisation on Built and Rural Environments & Geometric Modelling and Imaging. IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp. 454-459. ISBN 978-0769547718 ISSN 1550-6037 (doi:10.1109/IV.2012.78)

evolutionary search

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803, Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Cross, Mark (2000) A combined evolutionary search and multilevel approach to graph partitioning. GECCO-2000: proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference : a joint meeting of the Ninth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2000) and the Fifth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2000), July 10-12, 2000, Las V. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, USA, pp. 674-681. ISBN 978-1558607088

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803, Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Cross, Mark (2000) A combined evolutionary search and multilevel optimisation approach to graph partitioning. Technical Report. CMS Press, London, UK. (doi:Tech. Rep. 00/IM/58)

expert systems

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (1998) Exploring genetic alternative concepts for FUELGEN. New Review of Applied Expert Systems, 4. pp. 185-194. ISSN 1361-0244

flow shop scheduling

force directed placement

FUELGEN expert system

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (1998) Exploring genetic alternative concepts for FUELGEN. New Review of Applied Expert Systems, 4. pp. 185-194. ISSN 1361-0244

fuzzy logic

Nissan, Ephraim, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803, Zhao, Jun, Knight, Brian and Petridis, Miltos (1998) Fuel reload pattern design within a family of hybrid architectures. In: 3rd International FLINS Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies for Nuclear Science and Industry, 14-16 September, 1998, Antwerp, Belgium.

fuzzy systems

Nissan, Ephraim, Galperin, Alex, Zhao, Jun, Knight, Brian and Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (2000) From FUELCON to FUELGEN: tools for fuel reload pattern design. In: Ruan, Da, (ed.) Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing in Nuclear Engineering, ed. Da Ruan, Publ. Springer Verlag,. Physica Verlag Heidelberg, pp. 432-448. ISBN 978-3790812510

genetic algorithms

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803, Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Cross, Mark (2000) A combined evolutionary search and multilevel optimisation approach to graph partitioning. Technical Report. CMS Press, London, UK. (doi:Tech. Rep. 00/IM/58)

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (1998) Exploring genetic alternative concepts for FUELGEN. New Review of Applied Expert Systems, 4. pp. 185-194. ISSN 1361-0244

genetic programming

Zhao, Jun, Kearney, Garrett and Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (1996) Emotional expression classification by genetic programming. In: Genetic Programming 1996 Conference (GP-96), 28-31 July 1996, Stanford University, United States. (Unpublished)

graph

graph-partitioning

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803, Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Cross, Mark (2000) A combined evolutionary search and multilevel optimisation approach to graph partitioning. Technical Report. CMS Press, London, UK. (doi:Tech. Rep. 00/IM/58)

heuristics

Higher Order Neural Networks

Hopfield neural networks

intelligent information retrieval

interoperability

IT

knowledge management

level of autonomicity

linear relaxation

LoA

manufacturing plant control

material selection

metaheuristic

metrics

multi-manager

multilevel optimisation

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803, Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 and Cross, Mark (2000) A combined evolutionary search and multilevel optimisation approach to graph partitioning. Technical Report. CMS Press, London, UK. (doi:Tech. Rep. 00/IM/58)

multilevel refinement

neural networks

non-linear representation

nuclear engineering

Zhao, Jun, Knight, Brian, Nissan, Ephraim and Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (1998) FuelGen: a genetic algorithm-based system for fuel loading pattern design in nuclear power reactors. Expert Systems with Applications, 14 (4). pp. 461-470. ISSN 0957-4174 (doi:10.1016/S0957-4174(98)00005-0)

nuclear fuel

Nissan, Ephraim, Galperin, Alex, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803, Knight, Brian and Zhao, Jun (2001) Future states for a present-state estimate, in the contextual perspective of in-core nuclear fuel management. CASYS: International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, 9. pp. 256-271. ISSN 1373-5411

nuclear reactors

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (1998) Exploring genetic alternative concepts for FUELGEN. New Review of Applied Expert Systems, 4. pp. 185-194. ISSN 1361-0244

nuclear science

P-median

Power of pre-emption

Epstein, Leah, Levin, Asif, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Strusevich, Vitaly (2017) Power of preemption for minimizing total completion time for uniform parallel machines. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 31 (1). pp. 101-123. ISSN 0895-4801 (Print), 1095-7146 (Online) (doi:10.1137/16M1066610)

power of preemption

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Strusevich, Vitaly (2022) Preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling on two unrelated parallel machines. Journal of Scheduling, 2022. ISSN 1094-6136 (Print), 1099-1425 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s10951-022-00753-7)

qualitative attributes

quality of a single preemption

reactor refueling

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (1998) Exploring genetic alternative concepts for FUELGEN. New Review of Applied Expert Systems, 4. pp. 185-194. ISSN 1361-0244

Scheduling

scheduling with transportation

segment transfers

sensor selection

soft computing

Tabu search

Total completion time

transportation

Rodney, Demane, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 (2006) Multilevel refinement for the vehicle routing problem. In: Odysseus 2006, Third International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics, 23-26 May, 2006, Altea, Spain.

Rodney, Demane, Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 and Walshaw, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-7779 (2005) Multilevel refinement for the vehicle routing problem. Proceedings of PlanSIG 2005, 24th Annual Workshop of UK Planning & Scheduling Special Interest Group. pp. 96-97. ISSN 1368 5708

trees (mathematics)

Soper, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0901-9803 (1998) Exploring genetic alternative concepts for FUELGEN. New Review of Applied Expert Systems, 4. pp. 185-194. ISSN 1361-0244