Full Papers Accepted for Technical Stream (oral presentation)

Best Paper

Random Prism: An Alternative to Random Forests
F. Stahl and M. Bramer (University of Portsmouth, UK)

Session T1: Evolutionary Algorithms (Chair: Prof. Adrian Hopgood, Sheffield Hallam University)

A Hybrid Parallel Genetic Algorithm for the Winner Determination Problem in Combinatorial Auctions
Dalila Boughaci, Louiza Slaouti and Kahina Achour (University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediène, Algeria)

Validation Sets, Genetic Programming and Generalisation
Jeannie Fitzgerald and Conor Ryan (University of Limerick, Ireland)

A Hyper-Heuristic Approach to Evolving Algorithms for Bandwidth Reduction Based on Genetic Programming
Behrooz Koohestani and Riccardo Poli (University of Essex, UK)

Session T2: Planning (Chair: Dr. Dan Neagu, University of Bradford)

Exploiting Automatic Validation in Human Mission Planning
Pietro Torasso and Gianluca Torta (University of Torino, Italy)

Real-Time Path Planning using a Simulation-Based Markov Decision Process
M. Naveed, A. Crampton, D. Kitchin and T.L. McCluskey (University of Huddersfield, UK)

Using a Plan Graph with Interaction Estimates for Probabilistic Planning
Yolanda E-Martín, María D. R-Moreno (Universidad de Alcalá) and David E. Smith (NASA Ames Research Center)

Session T3: Machine Learning (Chair: Dr. Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen)

A Multimodal Biometric Fusion Approach based on Binary Particle Optimization
Waheeda Almayyan (De Montfort University, UK), Hala Own (National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Egypt), Rabab Ramadan (Port-Said University, Egypt), Hussian Zedan (De Montfort University, UK)

Choosing a Case Base Maintenance Algorithm using a Meta-Case Base
L. Cummins and D. Bridge (University College Cork, Ireland)

Successive Reduction of Arms in Multi-Armed Bandits
N. Gupta (University of Maryland, USA), O. C. Granmo (University of Agder, Norway) and A. Agrawala (University of Maryland, USA)

2D Mass-spring-like Model for Prediction of a Sponge`s Behaviour upon Robotic Interaction
V. Arriola-Rios and J. Wyatt (University of Birmingham, UK)

Session T4: Text, Speech and Vision (Chair: Prof. Miltos Petridis, University of Brighton)

Using Negation and Phrases in Inducing Rules for Text Classification
S. Chua, F. Coenen, G. Malcolm and M. F. Garcia-Constantino (University of Liverpool, UK)

Two stage speaker verification using Self Organising Map and Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network
Tariq Tashan and Tony Allen (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Investigation into Computer vision methods to extract information for Context based image retrieval methods
Karen Le Roux (De Montfort University, UK)

Short Papers Accepted for Technical Stream (poster presentation)

Quality Management Using Electrical Capacitance Tomography and Genetic Programming: A new Framework
A.F. Sheta (WISE University, Jordan), P. Rausch (Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Germany) and Alaa Al-Afeef (Image Technologies Inc. (ITEC), Jordan)

MOEA/D with DE and PSO: MOEA/D-DE+PSO
Wali Khan (University of Essex)

Cross Organisational Compatible Plans Generation Framework
Mohammad Saleem, Paul W.H. Chung, Shaheen Fatima (Loughborough University, UK) and Wei Dai (Victoria University, Australia)

A Neural Network for Counter-Terrorism
S. Dixon, M. Dixon, J. Elliott, E. Guest and D. Mullier (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)