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The danger theory and its application to Artificial Immune Systems (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Aickelin, U., & Cayzer, S. (2002). The danger theory and its application to Artificial Immune Systems. In J. Timmis, & P. J. Bentley (Eds.), ICARIS 2002: 1st International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, 141-148

Over the last decade, a new idea challenging the classical self-non-self viewpoint has become popular amongst immunologists. It is called the Danger Theory. In this conceptual paper, we look at this theory from the perspective of Artificial Immune Sy... Read More about The danger theory and its application to Artificial Immune Systems.

An indirect genetic algorithm for set covering problems (2002)
Journal Article
Aickelin, U. (2002). An indirect genetic algorithm for set covering problems. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 53(10), 1118-1126. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601317

This paper presents a new type of genetic algorithm for the set covering problem. It differs from previous evolutionary approaches first because it is an indirect algorithm, i.e. the actual solutions are found by an external decoder function. The gen... Read More about An indirect genetic algorithm for set covering problems.

Partnering Strategies for Fitness Evaluation in a Pyramidal Evolutionary Algorithm (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Aickelin, U., & Bull, L. (2002). Partnering Strategies for Fitness Evaluation in a Pyramidal Evolutionary Algorithm.

This paper combines the idea of a hierarchical distributed genetic algorithm with different inter-agent partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from bottom up, with higher-level sub-populations optimising larger parts o... Read More about Partnering Strategies for Fitness Evaluation in a Pyramidal Evolutionary Algorithm.

'Enhanced Direct and Indirect Genetic Algorithm Approaches for a Mall Layout and Tenant Selection Problem' (2002)
Journal Article
Aickelin, U., & Dowsland, K. (2002). 'Enhanced Direct and Indirect Genetic Algorithm Approaches for a Mall Layout and Tenant Selection Problem'. Journal of Heuristics, 8(5), https://doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1016536623961

During our earlier research, it was recognised that in order to be successful with an indirect genetic algorithm approach using a decoder, the decoder has to strike a balance between being an optimiser in its own right and finding feasible solutions.... Read More about 'Enhanced Direct and Indirect Genetic Algorithm Approaches for a Mall Layout and Tenant Selection Problem'.

'On the Effects of Idiotypic Interactions for Recommendation Communities in Artificial Immune Systems' (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Cayzer, S., & Aickelin, U. (2002). 'On the Effects of Idiotypic Interactions for Recommendation Communities in Artificial Immune Systems'.

It has previously been shown that a recommender based on immune system idiotypic principles can outperform one based on correlation alone. This paper reports the results of work in progress, where we undertake some investigations into the nature of t... Read More about 'On the Effects of Idiotypic Interactions for Recommendation Communities in Artificial Immune Systems'.

'An Artificial Immune System as a Recommender System for Web Sites' (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Morrison, T., & Aickelin, U. (2002). 'An Artificial Immune System as a Recommender System for Web Sites'.

Artificial Immune Systems have been used successfully to build recommender systems for film databases. In this research, an attempt is made to extend this idea to web site recommendation. A collection of more than 1000 individuals' web profiles (alte... Read More about 'An Artificial Immune System as a Recommender System for Web Sites'.