Research Interests
- Modelling, Learning, Adaptation and Evolution in Complex
Environments.
- Adaptive Web-based Systems, Personalised Learning Environments,
User Modelling.
- Computational models of cognition, Nature-inspired Approaches, Particle
Swarm, Differential Evolution, Neural Networks.
Research Projects (2000 -
)
- “Machine learning in simulation research: methodology and
applications”, Principal Investigator, Brunel Research Initiative Award
2000 (value: £14K; duration: 12 months).
- “Self-organised neural estimators for modelling short
multivariate time series in bioinformatics”, Principal Investigator, Brunel
Research Initiative Award 2001 (value: £11K; duration: 12 months).
- “Jit-PIe
: Just-in-time Personalisation of the
Internet and e-content ”, Principal
Investigator, E.P.S.R.C (GR/R92554/01), 2002-2005 (value: £65K; duration 36 months).
- “Cognitive personalised interfaces for
web-based library catalogues”, co- investigator, A.H.R.B.
(MRG/AN9183/APN16300), 2003-2006 (value: £140K; duration 36 months).
- “L4all: Lifelong learning in London for all”, Principal Investigator, J.I.S.C. (Distributed e-Learning Programme), 2005-2006 (value: £132K; duration: 14 months).
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“United Kingdom Workshop on Computational Intelligence
2005 (UKCI05)”,
co-investigator, E.P.S.R.C. (EP/D037468/1),
2005 (value: £3K; duration: 3 months).
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“L4all-
continuation project”, Principal
Investigator, J.I.S.C. (Distributed e-Learning Programme), 2006 (value: £30K; duration: 7 months).
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“Flexible online space to support learning abstract concepts”, Principal
Investigator, HEFCE eLearning Capital Allocations to Birkbeck College,
2006 (value: £20K; duration: 12 months).
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“MyPlan
– Personal Planning for Learning throughout Life”, Principal Investigator, J.I.S.C.
(e-Learning Capital Programme), 2006-2008 (value: £200K; duration 27 months).
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“Workplace personalised learning environments
for the development of employees' technical communicative skills”, co-investigator, E.S.R.C. (TLRP e-Learning Phase-I, GR/RES-139-25-0312),
2006-2007 (value: £50K; duration: 6 months).
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“Intelligent
Support for Mathematical Generalisation”, co-investigator,
E.S.R.C. (TLRP e-Learning Phase-II; RES-139-25-0381), 2007-2010
(value: £1.5M; duration: 39 months).
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“Learning
Design Support Environment”, co-investigator, E.S.R.C.
(TLRP e-Learning Phase-II; RES-139-25-0406), 2008-2011 (value: £1.5M; duration:
36 months).
Home - Teaching - Publications - Bio - Department
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Editorial Board of the journal User
Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research
(UMUAI), Springer.
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Review Board of the journal Applied
Intelligence: The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural
Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies, Springer
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Board of Associate Editors of the International
Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), World Scientific.
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Board of Technical Editors of the Journal
of Applied Sciences, Asian Network for Scientific Information
(2006-2008).
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Board of Advisory Editors of the Journal
of Information Technology Research (JITR), IGI Publishing.
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Editorial Advisory Board of the Open
Cybernetics & Systemics Journal, Bentham Publishers.
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Editorial Advisory Board of the Ergonomics
Open Journal, Bentham Publishers.
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Editorial Advisory Board of the Open
Software Engineering Journal, Bentham Publishers.
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Editorial Board of the journal Evolving
Systems: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology,
Springer.
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Board of Associate Editors of the International
Journal of Artificial Life Research (IJALR), IGI Publishing.
2010:
the paper “Adaptive
Modelling of Users’ Strategies in Exploratory Learning Using Case-Based
Reasoning” by M. Cocea, S.
Gutierrez-Santos and G.D. Magoulas won the best PhD student paper award at the
14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information
& Engineering Systems (KES 2010), Cardiff, Wales, UK, 8-10 September 2010.
2009:
the paper
“Strategies to Minimise the Total Run Time of Cyclic Graph Based Genetic
Programming with GPUs” by T.E. Lewis and G.D. Magoulas won a best paper award at the ACM Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation Conference 2009 (GECCO 2009), Montreal, Canada, 8-12
July 2009.
2008: the paper "A discernibility-based approach to
feature selection for microarray data" by Z. Voulgaris and G.D. Magoulas
won the best PhD student paper award at the IEEE International Conference on
Intelligent Systems, Varna, Bulgaria, 6-8 Sept. 2008.
2006: the paper "A personalised mobile environment
for lifelong learners" by D. Dimakopoulos and G.D. Magoulas won an
outstanding paper award at the 4th IADIS International Conference on
WWW/Internet 2006, Murcia, Spain, 5-8 October 2006.
2004: the paper “Building diverse neural ensembles for
bioinformatics applications” by G.D. Magoulas won the third prize award of the
Medical and Health Care Committee at the European Symposium on Intelligent
Technologies, Hybrid Systems and their Implementation on Smart Adaptive Systems
(EUNITE 2004), Aachen, Germany, June 10-12, 2004.
2001: the paper “Improved neural network-based
interpretation of colonoscopy images through on-line learning and evolution” by
G.D. Magoulas, V.P. Plagianakos and M.V. Vrahatis won the third prize award of
the Medical and Health Care Committee at the European Symposium on Intelligent
Technologies, Hybrid Systems and their Implementation on Smart Adaptive Systems
(EUNITE 2001), Tenerife/ Spain, December 12-14, 2001.
2000: awarded IEEE Grant for New Researcher to attend and
present research work at the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on
Neural Networks, Como, Italy.
1999: Postdoctoral fellowship of the Greek State
Scholarships Foundation to research new approaches to learning in adaptive systems
through optimisation.
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2009:
- Imperial College (May 22, 2009): Intelligent
Optimisation and Learning Using Tsallis Statistics
2007:
- Keynote speaker at the International
e-Learning Forum, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan (March 2,
2007).
2006:
- University of Lancaster (December 6,
2006).
- Institute of Education (Oct 26, 2006).
2005:
- London Technology Network (June 10,
2005).
- Institute of Education (Nov 11, 2005).
2004:
- Goldsmiths College (April 24, 2004).
- Institute of Education (Dec 12, 2004).
2003:
- Invited speaker at the Workshop on
Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2003), part of the 9th
International Conference on User Modeling (UM'2003), 22-26 June 2003,
Conference Center of the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, PA, USA.
2001:
- The International Symp. On Computational
Mathematics and Decision-Making, May 2001, Patras, Greece.
- SEMINAL Research Network (Software
Engineering using Metaheuristic INnovative Algorithms) EPSRC-funded Network,
Cumberland lodge, Windsor, September 17-18, 2001.
- University of Warwick (March 7, 2001).
1999:
- The 7th Annual Conf. of the Hellenic
Psychological Society, March 25-28, 1999, Nicosia, Cyprus.
A. Anastasiadis, Neural network
training and applications using biological data (completed April 2006)
Z.
Voulgaris, Discernibility Concept in
Classification Problems (completed March 2009).
C-C.
Peng, Deterministic nonmonotone
training of recurrent neural networks and applications using symbolic sequence
data (completed March 2011).
M.
Cocea, Intelligent techniques for user
modelling and their exploitation in an exploratory learning environment (completed
Sept 2011).
T.
Lewis, working on genetic programming
structures and acceleration techniques for complex systems modelling (submitted).
D. Dimakopoulos, working on
personalisation of the Internet and e-content.
H.
Bajour, working on service-oriented
architectures and user modelling for personalisation.
M.
Kelly, working on genetic algorithms for urban
traffic management and control.
T.
Sikora, working on the design and optimisation
of adaptive controllers in application service management environment.
M.
Kohli, working on the development of a hybrid
computational modelling framework based on behavioural genetics.
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Programme
Committee: The 2nd
Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Thessaloniki, 11-12
April 2002.
Programme
Committee: The 3nd
Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Samos, May 2004.
Organisation/co-Chair: Workshop
on Individual Differences in Adaptive Hypermedia, part of the Adaptive
Hypermedia 2004 (The 3rd International Conference on Adaptive
Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems, The Eindhoven University of
Technology, The Netherlands, August 23–26, 2004.)
Organisation/co-Chair: Session on
Computational Approaches to Artificial Intelligence: Theory, Methods and
Applications, in the International Conference of Computational Methods in
Sciences and Engineering 2004, 2004 (ICCMSE 2004) Vravrona, Attica, Greece,
19-23 November 2004
Organisation/co-Chair: Session on Intelligent Technologies in
Bioinformatics, in the European Symposium on Intelligent
Technologies, Hybrid Systems and their implementation on Smart Adaptive Systems
2004, 10-12 June 2004, Aachen, Germany
Programme
Committee: Swarm
Intelligence, in the Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2004
Organisation/co-Chair:
Session
on Computational Intelligence: Theory and Applications, in the Fourth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts WCNA-2004,
June
30-July 7, 2004, Orlando, Florida USA.
Organisation/co-Chair:
Session on Personalised
Interaction for Universal Access, part of the Universal
Access in Human-Computer Interaction thematic area, the 11th
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 22-27 July 2005, Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Programme
Committee: IEEE International Workshop on Imaging
Systems and Techniques, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2005.
Organisation/co-Chair:
Session on Advances to
Computational Mathematics for Intelligent Systems, International Conference of
Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Rhodes, Greece, 16-20 September
2005.
Programme
Committee: International
Workshop on Combining Intelligent and Adaptive Hypermedia Methods / Techniques
in Web-Based Education Systems, in conjunction with the 16th
ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 6-9 Sept. 2005, Salzburg.
Organisation/co-Chair:
The
5th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI’05), 5-7 Sept.
2005, Birkbeck College, London.
Programme
Committee: IADIS International Conference on Cognition
and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2005), Porto,
Portugal, 14 -16 December 2005.
Programme
Committee: The
4th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN'06),
Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 18-20, 2006
Programme
Committee: The
6th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI’06), 4-6
Sept. 2006, Leeds
Programme
Committee: IEEE
2nd International Symposium on Evolving Fuzzy Systems, Ambelside,
Lake District, UK, 7-9 September 2006.
Programme
Committee: The
IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2006),
San Francisco, California, November 20-22, 2006.
Programme
Committee: The
IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital
Age (CELDA 2006), Barcelona, Spain, 8-10
December 2006.
Programme
Committee: The
3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies,
3-6 March 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
Organisation/co-Chair:
The Doctoral Consortium at the 11th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2007),
25-29 June 2007, Corfu, Greece.
Programme
Committee: Workshop on Personalisation in e-Learning Environments at
Individual and Group Level (PING), 25 June 2007, Corfu, Greece, in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on User Modeling
Programme
Committee: The 7th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI2007), 23-24 July 2007, Imperial College, London.
Programme
Committee: The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Computational
Intelligence (CI), July 2
– 4, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Programme
Committee: International Workshop on Representation Models and
Techniques for Improving e-Learning: Bringing Context into Web-based Education, part of the the Sixth International and
Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 07).
Roskilde University, Denmark, 20-24 August 2007.
Programme
Committee: Conference in Numerical Analysis 2007 (NumAn 2007), Kalamata, Greece, September 3-7, 2007.
Programme
Committee: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007 (CEC07), Singapore, September 25-28, 2007.
Programme
Committee: The 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with AI
(ICTAI-07), Patras, Greece, 29-31 October 2007.
Programme
Committee: The IADIS International Conference on Cognition and
Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2007), Algarve, Portugal, 7 - 9 December 2007.
Programme
Committee: The
4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies
(WEBIST 2008), 4 - 7 May, 2008, Funchal,
Madeira - Portugal
Technical
Programme Committee The 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008.
Programme
Committee: Conference
in Numerical Analysis (NumAn 2008), Recent Approaches to Numerical Analysis:
Theory, Methods and Applications, Kalamata, Greece, September 1-5,
2008.
Programme
Committee: The
2008 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, De Montfort
University, Leicester, Sept 10-12 2008.
Programme
Committee: International
Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications (CIMA 2008),
22 July 2008, in conjunction with the 18th European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI-08), Patras, Greece.
Programme
Committee: The 5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Island of Syros, Greece, October 2-4, 2008.
Programme
Committee: The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics (SMC 2008), Singapore, 12 - 15 October 2008.
Programme
Committee: IADIS
International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age
2008 (CELDA), Freiburg, Germany, 13 - 15 October 2008.
Programme
Committee: The 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems
and Technologies (WEBIST 2009),
March 23-26, 2009, Lisboa, Portugal.
Programme
Committee: The 5th IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning, February 26-28, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
Programme
Committee: International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and
Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2009), Track 8- Complex Intelligent Techniques for eLearning,
March 16-19, 2009, Fukuoka Institute of
Technology, Fukuoka, Japan.
Organisation/co-Chair:
Doctoral
Consortium and Young Researchers Track at the 14th
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2009), July 8-10, 2009, Brighton, UK.
Programme
Committee: The 14th
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2009), July 8-10, 2009, Brighton, UK.
Programme
Committee: The 4th IASTED
International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI), August 17 – 19, 2009,
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Programme
Committee: The 4th European Conference on Technology
Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2009), Nice September 29 - October 2, 2009.
Programme
Committee: The 2009 UK
Workshop on Computational Intelligence, University of Nottingham,
September 7-9, 2009.
Programme
Committee: The 3rd
International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 09), Wrexham, North East Wales,
September 8-11, 2009.
Organisation/co-Chair:
Workshop on Enabling creative learning design, part of the 14th International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence in Education, July 6-10, 2009, Thistle Hotel,
Brighton, UK.
Programme
Committee: The 4th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and
Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2010), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
Cracow College, Krakow, Poland, February 15- 18, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The First International Workshop on
Applications of Machine Learning Techniques in Medicine and Biology
(MLMB 2010),
St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, February 10-16, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The IADIS International Conference Mobile
Learning 2010, Porto, Portugal, March 19 – 21, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems
and Technologies (WEBIST 2010), Valencia, Spain, April 7-20, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The
6th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2010), Athens,
Greece, May 4-7, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The 18th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and
Personalization (UMAP2010), the “Big Island” of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The 5th IEEE International Conference on
Intelligent Systems (IS’10), London, UK, July 7-9, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The 5th IASTED International
Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2010), Maui, Hawaii, USA, August 23 –
25, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The 10th UK Annual Workshop on Computational
Intelligence (UKCI 2010), Essex, September 8-10, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The Conference in Numerical Analysis (NUMAN
2010), Recent Approaches to Numerical Analysis: theory, methods and
applications, Chania,
Greece, September 15-18, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The 7th Pan-Hellenic Conference with
International Participation Information and Communication Technologies in
Education,
Korinthos, Greece, September 23-26, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The European Conference on Technology
Enhanced Learning Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and
Practice (ECTEL 2010), Barcelona, Spain, September 28 - October 1, 2010.
Programme
Committee: The International Conference on
Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS 2010), November 24-26, 2010,
Thessaloniki, Greece.
Programme
Committee: Workshop on Semantics, Knowledge and e-Learning,
in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and
Grid, November 1-3, 2010. Ningbo, China.
Programme
Committee: The 2nd International
Workshop On Semantic Web Applications In Higher Education (SEMHE '10),
co-located
with ECEL '10: The 9th European Conference on e-Learning, Instituto Superior de
Engenharia do Porto, Porto, Portugal, 3 November 2010.
Programme
Committee: The IADIS International Conference
on Mobile Learning 2011, Avila, Spain, 10 -12
March 2011.
Programme
Committee: The 26th ACM Symposium
On Applied Computing, Track on Intelligent, Interactive and Innovative Learning
environments, 21-24 March 2011, TaiChung, Taiwan.
Programme
Committee: The 7th Int'l Conf. on
Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2011),
6-9 May, 2011, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
Programme
Committee: The 5th International Conference on Complex,
Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2011),
June 30th-July 2nd, 2011 Korean Bible University (KBU), Seoul, Korea.
Programme
Committee: The 19th User Modeling,
Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Conference,
11-15 July 2011, Girona, Spain.
Programme Committee: The
5th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive
Systems (CISIS-2011), Track on E-learning and Groupware Systems, June 30th-July 2nd, 2011
Korean Bible University (KBU), Seoul, Korea
Programme Committee: The
4th International Conference on Internet Technologies and
Applications (ITA 11), 6-9 September 2011, Glyndwr University, North
Wales, UK.
Programme Committee: The 12th EANN (Engineering
Applications of Neural Networks) / 7th AIAI (/ Artificial Intelligence
Applications and Innovations) Joint Conferences, 15-18 September 2011, Corfu, Greece.
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