Books

· A. Simões (2011), Evolutionary Algorithms in Dynamic Optimization Problems: Studies on Memory, Diversity and Prediction, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN 978-3-8465-0598-4, 2011

· E. Costa, A. Simões (2008), Inteligência Artificial - Fundamentos e Aplicações - 2nd ed, FCA Editora de Informática, ISBN 978-972-722-340-4, 2008.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2011), Memory-based CHC Algorithms for the Dynamic Traveling Salesman Problem. Proceedings of the 2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011), pp. 1037--1044, Dublin, Ireland, 12-16 July 2011.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2011), CHC-based Algorithms for the Dynamic Traveling Salesman Problem. In C. Di Chio et al. (Eds.): EvoApplications 2011, Part I, LNCS 6624, pp. 354–363, 2011. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011, Torino, Italy, 27-29 April 2011.

· A. Simões, R. Carvalho, J. Campos, E. Costa (2011), A Study on Population's Diversity for Dynamic Environment. In A. Dobnikar, U. Lotric, and B. Ster (Eds.): ICANNGA 2011, Part I, LNCS 6593, pp. 300–309, 2011. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 14-16, 2011.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2009), Prediction in Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Environments Using Markov Chains and Nonlinear Regression. In  Günther R. Raidl et al. (eds), Proceedings of the 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), pp. 883-890, Montréal, Canada, ACM Press, July 2009.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2009), Improving Prediction in Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Environments. In  Günther R. Raidl et al. (eds), Proceedings of the 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), pp. 875-888, Montréal, Canada, ACM Press, July 2009.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2009), The Influence of Population and Memory Sizes on the Evolutionary Algorithm's Performance for Dynamic Environments. In M. Giacobini et al. (Eds.): EvoWorkshops 2009, Applications of Evolutionary Computing, LNCS 5484, Tübingen, Germany, pp. 705-714, Springer Verlag, April 2009.
This paper received the Best Paper Award of EvoStoc2009.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2008), Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Environments: Prediction using Linear Regression and Markov Chains. Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN X), LNCS 5199, Dortmund, Germany, September 2008, pp. 306-315, Springer, September 2008.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2007), Improving Memory's Usage in Evolutionary Algorithms for Changing Environments. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Singapore, 25-28 September, pp. 276-283, IEEE, 2007.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2007), Variable-size Memory Evolutionary Algorithm to Deal with Dynamic Environments. In M. Giacobini et al. (Eds.): EvoWorkshops 2007, Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Valencia, Spain, LNCS 4448, pp. 617-626, Springer Verlag, April 2007.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2003), An Immune System-Based Genetic Algorithm to Deal with Dynamic Environments: Diversity and Memory. David W. Pearson, Nigel C. Steele, Rudolf Albrecht (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'03), pp. 168-174, Roanne, France, 23-25 April, Springer, 2003.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2003), Improving the Genetic Algorithm's Performance when Using Transformation. David W. Pearson, Nigel C. Steele, Rudolf Albrecht (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'03), pp. 175-181, Roanne, France, 23-25 April, Springer, 2003.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2003), A Comparative Study Using Genetic Algorithms to Deal with Dynamic Environments. David W. Pearson, Nigel C. Steele, Rudolf Albrecht (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'03), pp. 203-209, Roanne, France, 23-25 April, Springer, 2003.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2001), On Biologically Inspired Genetic Operators: Transformation in the Standard Genetic Algorithm. In Spector, L., E. Goodman, A. Wu, W.B. Langdon, H.-M. Voigt, M. Gen, S. Sen, M. Dorigo, S. Pezeshk, M. Garzon, and E. Burke, (eds). 2001 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2001. pp. 584-591, San Francisco, USA, 7-11 July, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2001.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2001), Using Biological Inspiration to Deal with Dynamic Environments.In the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Soft Computing (MENDEL'01), Brno, Czech Republic, 6-8 June, 2001.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2001), An Evolutionary Approach to the Zero/One Knapsack Problem: Testing Ideas from Biology. In V. Kurková, N. Steele, R. Neruda, M. Kárný (eds), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'01), pp. 236-239, Prague, Czech Republic, 22-25 April, Springer, 2001.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2000), Using Genetic Algorithms with Sexual or Asexual Transposition: A Comparative Study. In the Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC' 2000), pp. 1196-1203, San Diego, USA, 16-19 July, 2000.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2000), Using Genetic Algorithms with Asexual Transposition. In D. Whitley, D. Goldberg, E. Cantú-Paz, L. Spector, I. Parmee, H. Beyer (eds.), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO' 2000), pp. 323-330, Las Vegas, USA, 8-12 July, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (1999), Transposition versus Crossover: An Empirical Study. In the Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'99), pp. 612-619, Orlando, Florida, USA, 13-17 July, 1999.

· A. Simões, E.Costa (1999), Enhancing Transposition Performance. In the Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC' 99), pp. 1434-1441, Washington, USA, 6-9 July, 1999.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (1999), Transposition: a Biologically Inspired Mechanism to Use with Genetic Algorithms. In A. Dobnikar, N. Steele, D. Pearson and R. Albrecht, (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'99), Portoroz, Slovenia, 6-9 April, 1999, Springer-Verlag.

Posters

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2007), Variable-size Memory Evolutionary Algorithm: Studies on Replacing Strategies and Diversity in Dynamic Environments. Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), pp. 1530-1530, London, 7-11 July, ACM Press, 2007.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2002), Parametric Study to Enhance the Genetic Algorithm’s Performance when Using Transformation. In the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002), pp. 697-697, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, New York, July 2002.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2002), Using Genetic Algorithms to Deal with Dynamic Environments: A Comparative Study of Several Approaches Based on Promoting Diversity. In the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002), pp. 698-698, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, New York, July 2002.

Technical Reports

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2009), Prediction in Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Environments using Markov Chains and Nonlinear Regression. CISUC TR 2009/001, ISSN 0874-338X, January 2009.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2008), Evaluating Predictor's Accuracy in Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Environments. CISUC TR 2008/004, ISSN 0874-338X, September 2008.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2008), The Influence of Population and Memory Sizes on the Evolutionary Algorithm’s Performance for Dynamic Environments. CISUC TR 2008/002, ISSN 0874-338X, April 2008.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2008), Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Environments: Prediction using Linear Regression and Markov Chains. CISUC TR 2008/001, ISSN 0874-338X, March 2008.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2007), Using Linear Regression to Predict Changes in Evolutionary Algorithms dealing with Dynamic Environments. CISUC TR 2007/005, ISSN 0874-338X, April 2007.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2007), Improving Memory-based Evolutionary Algorithms in Changing Environments. CISUC TR 2007/004, ISSN 0874-338X, March 2007.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (2007), Variable-size Memory Evolutionary Algorithm: studies of the impact of different replacing strategies in the algorithm's performance an in the population's diversity when dealing with dynamic environments. CISUC TR 2007/001, ISSN 0874-338X, February 2007.

. A. Simões, E. Costa (2006), Variable-size Memory Evolutionary Algorithm to Deal with Dynamic Environments: an empirical study. CISUC Techical Report, TR 2006/004, ISSN 0874-338X, November 2006.

· A. Simões, E. Costa (1999), Using Genetic Algorithms with Asexual Transposition. CISUC Techical Report, TR 99/003, ISSN 0874-338X, October 1999.


Thesis

. PhD Thesis:
A. Simões (2010), Improving Memory-based Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Environments. PhD Thesis, ISBN 978-989-20-1900-0, University of Coimbra, October 2010. [.pdf file]

. MsC Thesis, in portuguese:
A. Simões (1999), Transposição: Estudo de um Novo Operador Genético Inspirado Biologicamente. MsC Thesis, University of Coimbra, June 1999 [pdf file].

• EvoSTOC 2012: 9th European event on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, incorporated in Evo* 2012, Malaga, Spain, April, 2012.

• EVOSTOC 2012: 9th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, incorporated in Evo* 2012,Malaga, Spain, 11-13 April, 2012.
• ISCIES 2011: 2nd International Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Systems, Coimbra, Portugal, 16-18 November, 2011.
• RASEP 2011: 1st International Workshop on Rational, Secure and Private Ad-hoc Networks, Crete, Greece, 16-21 October, 2011.
• ALEA@EPIA 2011: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms Track, 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, Portugal, 10-13 October, 2011.
• EVOSTOC 2009: 6th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, incorporated in Evo* 2009,Tübingen, Germany, 15-17 April, 2009.
• EVOSTOC 2008: 5th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, incorporated in Evo* 2008, Napoli, Italy, 26-28 March, 2008.
• EVOSTOC 2007: 4th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, incorporated in Evo* 2007, Valencia, Spain, 11-13 April, 2007.
• GECCO 2003: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Chicago, USA, 2003.
• GECCO 2002: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, San Francisco, USA, 2002.

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2006


• EVOSTOC 2012
• ALEA 2011
• ISCIES 2011
• EVOSTOC 2009
• EVOSTOC 2008
• EVOSTOC 2007
• GECCO 2003
• GECCO 2002
• EPPIA 1999

• ACM, since 2009
• IEEE, since 2009