Computational Intelligence Research Group

Principal investigators:Prof Andries Engelbrecht

(engel@cs.up.ac.za)

Mr Bryton Masiye(bmasiye@cs.up.ac.za)

Mr Nelis Franken(nfranken@cs.up.ac.za)

http://cirg.cs.up.ac.za

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Main Research Focus

Conducts theoretical and applied research in computational intelligence

Application areas: Optimization Classification Pattern recognition

Research areas: Artificial neural networks Swarm intelligence Evolutionary computation Artificial immune systems Bioinformatics Swarm robotics (MAS) Data and text mining Image analysis

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CIRG Members

Staff members Andries Engelbrecht, Bryton Masiye, Nelis

Franken

Graduate students PhD students: 9 Masters students: 35 B.Sc-Hons project students: 4

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Research outputs

1-962005

-1242004

--10-2003

1-712002

-1322001

BooksBook chapters

Conference papers

Journal articles

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Graduandi

PhD students: 3 M.Sc students: 10 M.IT students: 1 M.BA students: 1 B.Sc-Hons students: 29

Funding

NRF Focus area grants Explorative Computelligence, 2003-2004,

R380000 CiClops, 2005-2009, R1000000

BMW surface scanning via BE@UP Prototype, 2002-2003, R109000 Production system, 2004-2005, R561770

International Collaboration

With Prof J-P Muller, CIRAD, France Prof A Salman, University of Kuwait Dr MGH Omran, Arab Open University, Kuwait

Visitors Prof W Duch, Nicholaus Copernicus University,

Poland Prof J-P Muller, CIRAD, France Prof M Wolldridge, University of Liverpool, UK

Research Detail

Artificial neural networks: New training strategies Model selection Learning function derivatives

Artificial immune systems: Analysis of overfitting New classifier algorithms Data clustering in changing environments

Research Detail (cont.)

Swarm Intelligence: Particle swarm optimization:

• New optimization algorithms

• Niching to locate multiple solutions

• Multi-objective optimization

• Theoretical analysis

• Training game-playing agents

• Tracking dynamically changing objectives

• Constrained optimization

• Training support vector machines

• Methods for discrete search spaces

Research Detail (cont.)

Swarm intelligence (cont.): Ant Colony Optimization:

• Routing in ad hoc mobile networks• Foraging models for robot swarms

Swarm robotics:• Social-based coordination methods• Coevolutionary trained behaviours• Blackboard systems

Research Detail (cont.)

Evolutionary computation: Analysis of coevolution Coevolutionary training of game agents Evolving decision and model trees New differential evolution algorithms

Bioinformatics: DNA sequence alignment RNA secondary structure prediction Molecular docking

Research Detail (cont.)

Image analysis: Surface anomaly detection New image segmentation methods Analysing video feeds Gesture recognition and tracking

Data, Text, Image Mining: Data sampling methods Mining continuous-valued classes Genetic programming for mining

Researc Projects

BMW surface scanning Cilib and CiClops CyberSaint Scorpio Agere Gesture recognition, device free pointing Counting parasitic bees Protein visualiser

Future

Centre of Excellence in AI