Colin Reeves' Home Page
Welcome to my home page. You will find some information about
myself, a list of my publications, some of which
are available online, a selection of other useful links,
mostly those related to my own research area.
Finally, there is a section on some conferences
with which I am involved, or in which I have some interest.
Later, I hope to add some links to course lecture
notes.
MSc COURSEWORK: You can download the sysid.exe
and Class.exe files from here.
About myself
I am the Professor of Operational Research in the School of Mathematical
and Information Sciences (MIS) at Coventry University. My main research
interests are in an area that many people call computational intelligence.
This includes applications of neural networks to pattern recognition
problems, and heuristic methods for combinatorial optimization,
particularly genetic algorithms on which I have published many papers.
I also edited and co-authored the book Modern Heuristic Techniques for
Combinatorial Problems, published originally (1993) by Blackwell, and
re-issued more recently (1995) by McGraw-Hill. [Ordering information from
McGraw-Hill web page] A new
book, Genetic Algorithms: Principles and Perspectives, co-authored with
Jon Rowe, is due in 2002, published by Kluwer.
About research in MIS
Most of the research in the School of MIS relates to the activities of
the Control Theory and Applications Centre (CTAC) to which I and many other
staff are attached. I am part of the Computational
Intelligence and Optimization Group. There are some other groups in
the school with which we have some involvement, such as the BIOCORE group
for biomedical computing research; information on all groups can be found
at
http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/research/groups.html
Publications
A list of publications is shown below
(Sorry, this list is rather out of date.)
Karl Benson's GECCO 2000 graduate student paper is available here
Some other useful links
The field of adaptive computation is an exciting research area, and there
are many groups doing some very interesting work. Here are a few places
where you can find out more:
Conferences
In 1999, I was involved with ICANNGA99
in Slovenia: the 4th International Conference on Artificial Neural Nets
and Genetic Algorithms, and with te 5th, held in Prague in 2001. ICANNGA
was a great success; the next one is to be held in Roanne, France, 22-25
April, 2003 - see ICANNGA2003
for details.
Coventry University organizes an annual conference on Systems
Engineering which rotates between Coventry, Wroclaw and Las Vegas.
Next year it's in Coventry, again: September 2003.
Colin R Reeves
School of MIS
Coventry University
Priory Street
Coventry CV1 5FB
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1203 838579
Fax: +44 (0)1203 838080
Email: Colin R Reeves
Last update: 12 June 2000
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