Jim Smith's Outputs (14)

Aspect oriented software fault tolerance and analytically redundant design framework (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Diversity or redundancy based software fault tolerance does not come for free; rather it introduces additional complexity to the core functionality in the form of redundancy development, management and controlled execution. This results in tangling o... Read More about Aspect oriented software fault tolerance and analytically redundant design framework.

Self-adaptation of mutation operator and probability for permutation representations in genetic algorithms (2010)
Journal Article

The choice of mutation rate is a vital factor in the success of any genetic algorithm (GA), and for permutation representations this is compounded by the availability of several alternative mutation operators. It is now well understood that there is... Read More about Self-adaptation of mutation operator and probability for permutation representations in genetic algorithms.

Teaching problem solving and AI with PacMan (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Assessment of the influence of adaptive components in trainable surface inspection systems (2010)
Journal Article

In this paper, we present a framework for the classification of images in surface inspection tasks and address several key aspects of the processing chain from the original image to the final classification result. A major contribution of this paper... Read More about Assessment of the influence of adaptive components in trainable surface inspection systems.

Impact of object extraction methods on classification performance in surface inspection systems (2010)
Journal Article

In surface inspection applications, the main goal is to detect all areas which might contain defects or unacceptable imperfections, and to classify either every single 'suspicious' region or the investigated part as a whole. After an image is acquire... Read More about Impact of object extraction methods on classification performance in surface inspection systems.

Meme fitness and memepool sizes in coevolutionary memetic algorithms (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Analytically redundant controllers for fault tolerance: Implementation with separation of concerns (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Creating diverse nearest-neighbour ensembles using simultaneous metaheuristic feature selection (2010)
Journal Article

The nearest-neighbour (1NN) classifier has long been used in pattern recognition, exploratory data analysis, and data mining problems. A vital consideration in obtaining good results with this technique is the choice of distance function, and corresp... Read More about Creating diverse nearest-neighbour ensembles using simultaneous metaheuristic feature selection.

User-centric image segmentation using an interactive parameter adaptation tool (2010)
Journal Article

Creating successful machine vision systems often begins a process of developing customised reliable image segmentation algorithms for the detection, and possibly categorisation of regions of interest within images. This can require significant invest... Read More about User-centric image segmentation using an interactive parameter adaptation tool.

Evolutionary algorithms (2010)
Book Chapter

What are evolutionary algorithms? (2010)
Book Chapter

Separation of fault tolerance and non-functional concerns: Aspect oriented patterns and evaluation (2010)
Journal Article

Software fault tolerance: An aspect oriented approach (2010)
Book Chapter

Self-adaptive and coevolving MAs (2010)
Book Chapter