Research activity

In Computer Architecture and Languages Laboratory we are currently involved in research activities of Programme-Funded Unit Computer Systems, Methodologies, and Intelligent Services.

Our main research activities:

• Protein Folding
• Low-Autocorrelation Binary Sequence Problem
• Chess program BBChess
• Differential Evolution, jDE Algorithm
• Programming language Z0
• Programming language Zero
• EcoMod: artificial life of plants
• Multiobjective optimization and evolutionary algorithms

Prominent scientific literature

• Journals
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  • Evolutionary Computation (The MIT Press)
  • Journal of Global Optimization
  • Soft Computing (online content)
  • Applied Intelligence (online content)
  • Applied Soft Computing (online content)
  • Bioinformatics
  • Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN)
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
  • International Computer Games Association Journal

• Magazines
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
  • IEEE Internet Computing Magazine (online content)
  • Electrotechnical Review (online content)

• Conferences
  • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2007)
  • Special Section on Performance Assessment of Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
  • 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong, June 2008
    • hosting as well the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008)
    • Special Session on Large Scale Global Optimization
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007)
  • Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN)
  • Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO2007)
  • EvoStar (EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, EvoWorkshops)
    • EuroGP 2008 - Eleventh European conference on Genetic Programming
    • EvoMUSART: Sixth European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design
  • The IEEE Region 8 Eurocon 2007 Conference (Eurocon 2007), Warsaw, September 2007
  • 8th International Conference on Natural Computing
  • Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications 2008

• Web resources
  • P. N. Suganthan
  • Differential Evolution (DE) algoritem
  • Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb's Homepage @ Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
  • Carlos A. Coello Coello's Publications
  • Walking Fish Group
  • Tea Tušar's DEMO program
  • Jurij Šilc
  • Department of Intelligent Systems -- research areas
  • Stochastic Algorithms for Global Optimization - MATLAB library
  • Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb's Homepage
  • Carlos Artemio Coello Coello
  • Uday K. Chakraborty
  • Karin Zielinski
  • Opposition-Based Learning
  • Publications of Algorithmic Botany @ University of Calgary
  • Swarm design
  • Research Group "Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems"
  • Xin Yao

Tools

Free opensource systems that we are using:

• OS: linux (Fedora Core, Mandriva, KUbuntu), *BSD (FreeBSD, DesktopBSD),
• programming: GCC (C, C++, java), NASM, ANTLR, Qt4, Glib 2, Sun java, Mono, KRegExpEditor, Subversion,
• editors: Vim, Emacs, Kate, Eclipse, Kile, KDeveloper,
• web portals: MediaWiki, Moodle,
• virtual machines: Cygwin, Wine, QEMU,
• application servers: Apache, CUPS, Tomcat,
• office: KDE, GNOME, LaTeX, OpenOffice, KOffice, Kontact, Firefox, Konqueror,

Specialized hardware equipment: two servers with 2x dual core Opteron 64bit, electronic chess board.

Other tools: Microsoft Windows, LISA, Arena.