Often when we make a choice we face an optimisation problem.
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Covid Lockdown Easing
Has It Only Been Just 2 Months?
What a completely surreal, strange and stressful time these last 2 months have been during Covid lockdown. Has it really only been 2 months, sometimes it feels like 10. There’s...
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Paper On Hyper & Meta-Heuristics
The Final (Module) Act Of My Academic Life
I’ve just submitted a paper titled “Heuristic Optimization Platform For Meta And Hyper-Heuristic Solving Of Combinatorial And Continuous Problems”. As my very last piece of module work for MSc Intelligent...
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Charting With Excel Is Amazingly Simple
Focus On The End Result, Not The Tool
Working on a Python-based platform that made available a number of different optimizers (Particle Swarm, Genetic Evolution etc) at solving problems, I wanted to generate a clear, good looking and...
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Inspyred
Python Package For Bio-Inspired Computation
In developing the Heuristic Optimisation Platform (HOP, paper here), I hand-coded various metaheuristics (algorithms) including Particle Swarm Optimisation and Genetic Evolution. These can get quite involved, but of course a...
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