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).

- United Kingdom Workshop on Computational Intelligence 2005 (UKCI05), co-investigator, E.P.S.R.C. (EP/D037468/1), 2005 (value: £3K; duration: 3 months).

- “L4all- continuation project, Principal Investigator, J.I.S.C. (Distributed e-Learning Programme), 2006 (value: £30K; duration: 7 months).

- “Flexible online space to support learning abstract concepts”, Principal Investigator, HEFCE eLearning Capital Allocations to Birkbeck College, 2006 (value: £20K; duration: 12 months).

- “MyPlan – Personal Planning for Learning throughout Life, Principal Investigator, J.I.S.C. (e-Learning Capital Programme), 2006-2008 (value: £200K; duration 27 months).

- “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).

- 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).

- 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).

 

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Journal Boards

 

- Editorial Board of the journal User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI), Springer.

- Review Board of the journal Applied Intelligence: The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies, Springer

- Board of Associate Editors of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), World Scientific.

- Board of Technical Editors of the Journal of Applied Sciences, Asian Network for Scientific Information (2006-2008).

- Board of Advisory Editors of the Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR), IGI Publishing.

- Editorial Advisory Board of the Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal, Bentham Publishers.

- Editorial Advisory Board of the Ergonomics Open Journal, Bentham Publishers.

- Editorial Advisory Board of the Open Software Engineering Journal, Bentham Publishers.

- Editorial Board of the journal Evolving Systems: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology, Springer.

- Board of Associate Editors of the International Journal of Artificial Life Research (IJALR), IGI Publishing.

 

 

Awards

 

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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Invited lectures

 

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.

 

 

Research group

 

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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Committees/Organisation of Workshops and Conferences (2002- )

 

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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