Miguel Nicolau

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2002-2022
Publications (10 Years): 27

Top Topics

Genetic Programming

Grammatical Evolution

Density Estimation

Top Venues

Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach.

GECCO (Companion)

Publications

Miguel Nicolau
BSGenerator: a Tool to Design Unique Online Examinations using Question Variations. IIAI-AAI (2022)
Stefano Mauceri, James Sweeney, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
Feature extraction by grammatical evolution for one-class time series classification. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. 22 (3) (2021)
Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos
Choosing function sets with better generalisation performance for symbolic regression models. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. 22 (1) (2021)
Miguel Nicolau
Highlights of genetic programming 2020 events. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. 22 (4) (2021)
Ting Hu, Miguel Nicolau, Lukás Sekanina
Special issue on highlights of genetic programming 2019 events. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. 21 (3) (2020)
Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
Learning Neural Representations for Network Anomaly Detection. IEEE Trans. Cybern. 49 (8) (2019)
Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
Genetic Programming Symbolic Regression: What Is the Prior on the Prediction? GPTP (2019)
Alexandros Agapitos, Róisín Loughran, Miguel Nicolau, Simon M. Lucas, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
A Survey of Statistical Machine Learning Elements in Genetic Programming. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. 23 (6) (2019)
Ales Zamuda, Miguel Nicolau, Christine Zarges
A black-box discrete optimization benchmarking (BB-DOB) pipeline survey: taxonomy, evaluation, and ranking. GECCO (Companion) (2018)
Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
Extending Program Synthesis Grammars for Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming. PPSN (1) (2018)
Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
Towards effective semantic operators for program synthesis in genetic programming. GECCO (2018)
Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos
On the effect of function set to the generalisation of symbolic regression models. GECCO (Companion) (2018)
Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
Towards Understanding and Refining the General Program Synthesis Benchmark Suite with Genetic Programming. CEC (2018)
Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau
Distilling the salient features of natural systems: Commentary on "On the mapping of genotype to phenotype in evolutionary algorithms" by Whigham, Dick and Maclaurin. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. 18 (3) (2017)
Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
A Grammar Design Pattern for Arbitrary Program Synthesis Problems in Genetic Programming. EuroGP (2017)
Miguel Nicolau, Diego Perez Liebana, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Evolutionary Behavior Tree Approaches for Navigating Platform Games. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games 9 (3) (2017)
Van Loi Cao, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, James McDermott
Improving Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification on Unbalanced Credit Card Datasets. CoRR (2017)
Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
Late-acceptance and step-counting hill-climbing GP for anomaly detection. GECCO (Companion) (2017)
Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
Semantics-Based Crossover for Program Synthesis in Genetic Programming. Artificial Evolution (2017)
James McDermott, Miguel Nicolau
Late-acceptance hill-climbing with a grammatical program representation. GECCO (Companion) (2017)
Miguel Nicolau
Understanding grammatical evolution: initialisation. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. 18 (4) (2017)
Stefan Forstenlechner, Miguel Nicolau, David Fagan, Michael O'Neill
Grammar Design for Derivation Tree Based Genetic Programming Systems. EuroGP (2016)
Miguel Nicolau, Michael Fenton
Managing Repetition in Grammar-Based Genetic Programming. GECCO (2016)
Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
A Hybrid Autoencoder and Density Estimation Model for Anomaly Detection. PPSN (2016)
Gilyana Borlikova, Michael Phillips, Louis Smith, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
Alternative Fitness Functions in the Development of Models for Prediction of Patient Recruitment in Multicentre Clinical Trials. OR (2016)
Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
One-Class Classification for Anomaly Detection with Kernel Density Estimation and Genetic Programming. EuroGP (2016)
Van Loi Cao, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott
Improving Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification on Unbalanced Credit Card Data. EvoApplications (1) (2016)
Alexandros Agapitos, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, David Fagan, Ahmed Kattan, Anthony Brabazon, Kathleen M. Curran
Deep evolution of image representations for handwritten digit recognition. CEC (2015)
Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Guidelines for defining benchmark problems in Genetic Programming. CEC (2015)
Stefan Forstenlechner, Miguel Nicolau, David Fagan, Michael O'Neill
Introducing Semantic-Clustering Selection in Grammatical Evolution. GECCO (Companion) (2015)
Miguel Nicolau, Dan Costelloe
Size Does Not Matter: Evolving Parameters for a Cayley Graph Visualiser Using 64 Bits. EvoMUSART (2014)
Sarah Donne, Miguel Nicolau, Christopher J. Bean, Michael O'Neill
Wave height quantification using land based seismic data with grammatical evolution. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2014)
Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos
Experiments in program synthesis with grammatical evolution: A focus on Integer Sorting. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2014)
Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Dynamic Index Trading Using a Gene Regulatory Network Model. EvoApplications (2014)
Jonathan Byrne, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon, Michael O'Neill
An examination of synchronisation in Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2014)
Eoin Murphy, Erik Hemberg, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Grammar Bias and Initialisation in Grammar Based Genetic Programming. EuroGP (2012)
Eoin Murphy, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Differential Gene Expression with Tree-Adjunct Grammars. PPSN (1) (2012)
Miguel Nicolau, Matthew Saunders, Michael O'Neill, Bruce Osborne, Anthony Brabazon
Evolving Interpolating Models of Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange Using Grammatical Evolution. EuroGP (2012)
Noor Shaker, Miguel Nicolau, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Julian Togelius, Michael O'Neill
Evolving levels for Super Mario Bros using grammatical evolution. CIG (2012)
Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Applying Genetic Regulatory Networks to Index Trading. PPSN (2) (2012)
David Fagan, Erik Hemberg, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Seán McGarraghy
Towards adaptive mutation in grammatical evolution. GECCO (Companion) (2012)
Noor Shaker, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Julian Togelius, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
Evolving Personalized Content for Super Mario Bros Using Grammatical Evolution. AIIDE (2012)
Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Termination in Grammatical Evolution: grammar design, wrapping, and tails. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2012)
John Mark Swafford, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Comparing methods for module identification in grammatical evolution. GECCO (2012)
John Mark Swafford, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon
A non-destructive grammar modification approach to modularity in grammatical evolution. GECCO (2011)
David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon, Seán McGarraghy
Investigation of the Performance of Different Mapping Orders for GE on the Max Problem. EuroGP (2011)
David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Dynamic ant: introducing a new benchmark for genetic programming in dynamic environments. GECCO (Companion) (2011)
Diego Perez Liebana, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Evolving Behaviour Trees for the Mario AI Competition Using Grammatical Evolution. EvoApplications (1) (2011)
John Mark Swafford, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon
Exploring Grammatical Modification with Modules in Grammatical Evolution. EuroGP (2011)
Diego Perez Liebana, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
Reactiveness and navigation in computer games: Different needs, different approaches. CIG (2011)
Miguel Nicolau, Dan Costelloe
Using Grammatical Evolution to Parameterise Interactive 3D Image Generation. EvoApplications (2) (2011)
Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon
Dynamic environments can speed up evolution with genetic programming. GECCO (Companion) (2011)
David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Edgar Galván López, Anthony Brabazon, Seán McGarraghy
Investigating mapping order in piGE. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2010)
Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer, Wolfgang Banzhaf
Evolving Genes to Balance a Pole. EuroGP (2010)
Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer, Wolfgang Banzhaf
Evolving Genes to Balance a Pole CoRR (2010)
Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer
On the evolution of scale-free topologies with a gene regulatory network model. Biosyst. 98 (3) (2009)
Miguel Nicolau
Application of a simple binary genetic algorithm to a noiseless testbed benchmark. GECCO (Companion) (2009)
Rui Dilão, Daniele Muraro, Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer
Validation of a Morphogenesis Model of Drosophila Early Development by a Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization Algorithm. EvoBIO (2009)
Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer
Evolving specific network statistical properties using a gene regulatory network model. GECCO (2009)
Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer
Evolving scale-free topologies using a Gene Regulatory Network model. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2008)
Miguel Nicolau, Ian Dempsey
Introducing Grammar Based Extensions for Grammatical Evolution. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2006)
Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
Genetic Operators and Sequencing in the GAuGE System. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2006)
Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
Solving Sudoku with the GAuGE System. EuroGP (2006)
Christopher R. Stephens, Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
Zero Is ot a Four Letter Word: Studies in the Evolution of Language. EuroGP (2005)
Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
Crossover, Population Dynamics, and Convergence in the GAuGE System. GECCO (1) (2004)
Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
Efficient Crossover in the GAuGE System. EuroGP (2004)
Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon, Miguel Nicolau, Seán McGarraghy, Peter B. Keenan
pi-Grammatical Evolution. GECCO (2) (2004)
Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
How Functional Dependency Adapts to Salience Hierarchy in the GAuGE System. EuroGP (2003)
Miguel Nicolau, Anne Auger, Conor Ryan
Functional Dependency and Degeneracy: Detailed Analysis of the GAuGE System. Artificial Evolution (2003)
Conor Ryan, Maarten Keijzer, Miguel Nicolau
On the Avoidance of Fruitless Wraps in Grammatical Evolution. GECCO (2003)
Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan
LINKGAUGE: Tackling Hard Deceptive Problems With A New Linkage Learning Genetic Algorithm. GECCO (2002)
Conor Ryan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill
Genetic Algorithms Using Grammatical Evolution. EuroGP (2002)