Programme
Programme overview can be found here.
Day 1: Wednesday 3rd September
09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – ??:?? Session EC1: Evolutionary Computing B55
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09:30
Intelligent Optimisation of Heat Treatment Strategies for Additively Manufactured Maraging Steel
Neil Urquhart, Kyriakos Kourousis and Efstathios Tingas -
09:50
Class Incremental Learning for Algorithm Selection in Continuous Optimisation
Mate Nemeth, Emma Hart, Kevin Sim and Quentin Renau -
10:10
Selection of Automatically Designed Heuristics for the Container Relocation Problem
Marko Đurasević, Mateja Đumić and Francisco Javier Gil Gala
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break Apex
11:00 – ??:?? Session LLM: Large Language Models B55
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11:00
Jailbreaking LLMs Through Tense Manipulation in Multi-Turn Dialogues
Michael Tchuindjang, Nathan Duran, Phil Legg and Faiza Medjek -
11:20
Enhanced Large Language Models (GPT-3.5 Turbo) For Depression Detection in Social Media Data
Ken McGarry and Ephraim Tsike -
11:40
Large Language Model approaches to Educational Video Generation using Manim
Ravidu Suien Rammuni Silva, Ahmad Lotfi, Isibor Kennedy Ihianle, Golnaz Shahtahmassebi and Jordan J. Bird -
12:00
LLMs in Coding and their Impact on the Commercial Software Engineering Landscape
Vladislav Belozerov, Peter Barclay and Ashkan Sami -
12:10
Hallucination Detection Techniques in Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Processing and Non-Post-Processing Approaches
Mohammed Salih, Yip, Hadjipantelis, Goldingay
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Apex
13:30 – 14:30 Keynote B55
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13:30
Search Trajectories Illuminated
Prof. Gabriela Ochoa
14:30 – ??:?? Session CV: Computer Vision B55
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14:30
VoyagerVision: Investigating the Role of Multi-modal Information for Open-ended Learning Systems
Ethan Smyth and Alessandro Suglia -
14:50
Towards a Dynamic Shapley Value-Based Evaluations for Autonomous Robotic Learning from Videos
Xiang Chang, Fei Chao, Nigel Copner, Changjing Shang and Qiang Shen -
15:10
Optimal Pre-training for Vision Transformers in Medical Image Classification
Han, De Wilde, Santopietro
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break Apex
16:00 – ??:?? Session AI-ML-1: AI & Machine Learning B55
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16:00
Designing and Evaluating Interactive Narratives with Generative AI: LLM-Driven NPCs for a Minecraft Murder Mystery
Jiangao Ma, Junlin Wu, Oliver Lemon, Hanjing Wang, Shengyu Lu, Yi Ding, Ruotong Peng, Cheng Peng, Yusheng He, Ruoxuan Liu, Yifan Zheng and Lin Sun -
16:20
Comparative Study of One-Way Mentor-Mentee Matching Algorithms Under Varying Constraint Complexities
Daniel O'Driscoll and Jing Hua Ye -
16:40
NPC-Bench: a benchmark dataset for immersion and safety of generative AI for non-player characters
Gilligan, Smyth, Xuan, Hong, Xie, Stobie, Lemon -
17:00
Sex and age determination in European lobsters using AI-Enhanced bioacustics
Feliciano Domingos, Pedro Machado and Ahmad Lotfi -
17:10
Explainable Machine Learning for Predicting Maritime Fuel Consumption and CO₂ Emissions with Minimized Computational Cost
Konstantinos Zervoudakis and Stelios Tsafarakis
17:30 Welcome Reception Apex
Day 2: Thursday 4th September
09:00 – ??:?? Session EC2: Evolutionary Computing B55
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09:00
A Genetic Improvement Parameter Benchmark: rand_malloc.c
W B Langdon -
09:10
Towards Adversarial Policy Discovery via Evolutionary Program Synthesis
Fraser Garrow, Michael Lones and Robert Stewart -
09:20
GenGPLight: A Generalized Genetic Programming Framework for Traffic Signal Control in Arbitrary Intersection Structures
Sahar Kianian and Edward Keedwell -
09:40
Optimisation of Aircraft Maintenance Schedules
Neil Urquhart, Amir Rahimi and Efstathios-Al Tingas -
10:00
Grid-Based Random Walk Crossover for Genetic Algorithms
Chi Ho Chan, Kevin Sim, Peter Chapman and Ben Paechter
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break Apex
11:00 – ??:?? Session AI-ML-2: AI & Machine Learning B55
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11:00
Machine Learning-Based Classification of Open Carry and Concealed Dangerous Object Using mmWave Radar Data Features
Ogonna Okafor, David Adama and Doratha Vinkemeier -
11:20
Cat & Mouse – Can Fake Text Generation outpace Detector Systems?
Peter Barclay and Andrea McGlinchey -
11:30
Fuzzy Regular Expressions and Fuzzy Concepts in the Identification of Suspicious Domain Names
Trevor Martin -
11:50
Bearded Dragon Activity Recognition Pipeline: An AI-Based Approach to Behavioural Monitoring
Arsen Yermukan, Pedro Machado, Isibor Kennedy Ihianle, Jordan J. Bird, Stefano S. K. Kaburu and Samantha J. Ward
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Apex
13:30 – 14:30 Keynote B55
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13:30
reSHAPEing AI innovation: How Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts are critical to developing truly human-centered AI
Prof. Ewa Luger
14:30 – ??:?? Session EE: Education & Engagement B55
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14:30
Creating an Effective Methodology for End-User Engagement in AI Auditing
Emily O'Hara, Kathryn Simpson and Eva Fringi -
14:40
Developing an AI Makaton Tool for Inclusive Secondary Education: Implementation and Evaluation
Omotayo Omoyemi -
14:50
Diversifying Understandings of AI Literacy: A Global South Perspective from Vietnam Education
Vanessa Cui, Trang Thi Thu Nguyen, Jordan Bird, Hien Nguyen Van, Nam Nguyen Hoai, Vuong Le Quang, Linh Do Thuy, Luong Tran Thi Tuyet, Louise Wheatcroft, Muhammad Arifur Rahman and David J. Brown -
15:10
Explainable Optimized Machine Learning for Predicting Customer Churn
Konstantinos Zervoudakis and Stelios Tsafarakis -
15:20
LLMs for LLMs: A Structured Prompting Methodology for Long Legal Documents
Strahinja Klem and Noura Al Moubayed
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break Apex
16:00 – ??:?? Session AI-ML-3: AI & Machine Learning B55
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16:00
A Comparative Study: Reasoning with Small T5-Based Models on Abstract Reasoning Corpus (ARC)
Rehab Hamdi and Spyros Samothrakis -
16:20
A Comparative Analysis of Transformer Models in Social Bot Detection
Veit, Lones -
16:40
Assessing Forward and Backward Propagation of Rewards in Q-Learning
Kabir Olawore, Yaxin Bi
19:00 Conference Dinner
Day 3: Friday 5th September
09:00 – ??:?? Session EC3: Evolutionary Computing B55
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09:00
A Comparison of a Hyper-heuristic and an EA on the Portfolio Optimisation Problem
Rahul Soni, Matthew Craven and David Walker -
09:10
Learning Parameterizable Decoders with Cartesian Genetic Programming
Jörg Bremer and Sebastian Lehnhoff -
09:30
The Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations using Genetic Programming with Constant Tuning
Peter Rockett -
09:50
Artificial Immune System Approaches to Classify Ambiguous Data on Device Quality
Rachana Patel, Yonghan Zhang, Robert L. Nicol, Dongdong Chen and Wei Pang -
10:10
Variable Importance Estimation for High-Dimensional Optimisation
Kelly Hunter, Sarah Thomson and Emma Hart
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break Apex
11:00 – ??:?? Session RL: Real World Applications B55
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11:00
Anomalous Sound Detection based on Graph Neural Networks for Forest Preservation
Zied Mnasri and Thierry Bouwmans -
11:20
Meta-Learning with Dual-Branch Fusion Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution
Chanyue Wu, Dong Wang, Changjing Shang and Qiang Shen -
11:40
A Comparative Study Using Transfer Learning and Federated Learning to Detect Sign Language
Scott Geaney and Jing Hua Ye -
12:00
Scalable and Accurate Document Dispatcher for Planning Applications
Aneesh Krishnaraj Nejikar, Stefan Siegert and Fabrizio Costa
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Apex
13:30 – 14:30 Keynote B55
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13:30
Crowd-sourced insights into models of crowds
Prof. Martyn Amos
14:30 – ??:?? Session RO: Robotics B55
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14:30
Improving Cooperation in Collaborative Embodied AI
Hima Jacob Leven Suprabha, Laxmi Laxminarayan Nagesh, Oliver Lemon, Alvin Reuben Amal Selvaster, Ajith Nair, Vishal Sonar, Venkataramireddy Marella, Ayan Khan, Alessandro Suglia, Sreenithi Saravanaperumal, Titouan Puech, Raghuram Damarla and Sanju Hannah Samuel -
14:50
Parameter-Tuned Virtual Model Control for Quadruped Robot
Haiying Yuan, Keng Goh, Peter Andras and Wenguang Luo -
15:10
OHMS‑NetSim: Enabling Obstacle‑Aware Network‑Physics Co-Simulation for Outdoor Multi‑Robot Applications
Kalhan Boralessa, David Adama, Ahmad Lotfi and Joao Filipe Ferreira
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break Apex
16:00 – ??:?? Session LT: Machine Learning B55
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16:00
A Dual-Branch Super-Deep MambaPlusResGCN for Node Classification: Achieving Robustness Against Over-Smoothing
Anxue Zheng, Wei Pang and Chengjia Wang -
16:20
Causal ML for fair energy policy interventions: estimating impact heterogeneity of insulation programs via do-calculus
Bernardino D'Amico -
16:40
Using Mixture Models to Characterize the Process Durations of Daily Living
Eman Shaikh, Bryan Scotney, Sally McClean, Zeeshan Tariq and Nazeeruddin Mohammad