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Alexander E. I. Brownlee

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

55

Venues

6

Active years

2005–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

55 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026GECCOOptimizing Appliance Scheduling for Solar Energy Management Using Metaheuristic Algorithms.Hiba Ahmed, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Jason Adair, Simon T. Powers
2025GECCOInterpretable Decision Trees to Predict Solution Fitness.Giancarlo Antonino Pasquale Ignazio Catalano, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, David E. Cairns, Russell Ainslie, John A. W. McCall
2025GECCOEvaluating a Novel Explainability Method for Metaheuristics via a User Study.GianCarlo Antonino Pasquale Ignazio Catalano, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, David E. Cairns, John A. W. McCall, Russell Ainslie
2025SGAIExplaining Recommender Systems' Performance via User Behaviour Patterns.Giancarlo Antonino Pasquale Ignazio Catalano, Klaudia Dynak, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Piotr Lipinski
2024GECCOExplaining evolutionary feature selection via local optima networks.Jason Adair, Sarah L. Thomson, Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2024GECCOA Bi-Level Approach to Vehicle Fleet Reduction: Successful Case Study in Community Healthcare.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Sarah L. Thomson, Rachael Oladapo
2024GECCOMining Potentially Explanatory Patterns via Partial Solutions.Giancarlo Antonino Pasquale Ignazio Catalano, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, David E. Cairns, John A. W. McCall, Russell Ainslie
2024SGAIExplaining a Staff Rostering Problem Using Partial Solutions.Giancarlo Antonino Pasquale Ignazio Catalano, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, David E. Cairns, John A. W. McCall, Martin Fyvie, Russell Ainslie
2023GECCOGenetic Improvement: Taking real-world source code and improving it using computational search methods.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward
2023GECCOExplaining a Staff Rostering Genetic Algorithm using Sensitivity Analysis and Trajectory Analysis.Martin Fyvie, John McCall, Lee A. Christie, Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2023GECCOFrom Fitness Landscapes to Explainable AI and Back.Sarah L. Thomson, Jason Adair, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Daan van den Berg
2023SGAIExplaining a Staff Rostering Problem by Mining Trajectory Variance Structures.Martin Fyvie, John A. W. McCall, Lee A. Christie, Alexandru-Ciprian Zavoianu, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Russell Ainslie
2023SSBSEEnhancing Genetic Improvement Mutations Using Large Language Models.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, James Callan, Karine Even-Mendoza, Alina Geiger, Carol Hanna, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Dominik Sobania
2023SSBSEEvaluating Explanations for Software Patches Generated by Large Language Models.Dominik Sobania, Alina Geiger, James Callan, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Carol Hanna, Rebecca Moussa, Mar Zamorano Lpez, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro
2022GECCOMcCall, David Walker: The intersection of evolutionary computation and explainable AI.Jaume Bacardit, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Stefano Cagnoni, Giovanni Iacca, John A. W
2022GECCOGenetic improvement: taking real-world source code and improving it using computational search methods.Smundur skar Haraldsson, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Bradley Alexander, Emily Winter
2022GECCOTowards explainable metaheuristic: mining surrogate fitness models for importance of variables.Manjinder Singh, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, David E. Cairns
2021GECCOGenetic improvement: taking real-world source code and improving it using genetic programming.Smundur skar Haraldsson, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Markus Wagner, Bradley Alexander
2021SGAITowards Explaining Metaheuristic Solution Quality by Data Mining Surrogate Fitness Models for Importance of Variables.Aidan Wallace, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, David E. Cairns
2020CECInjecting Shortcuts for Faster Running Java Code.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Justyna Petke, Anna F. Rasburn
2019GECCOCrowd-sourcing the sounds of places with a web-based evolutionary algorithm.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Suk-Jun Kim, Szu-Han Wang, Stella Chan, Jamie A. Lawson
2019GECCOGin: genetic improvement research made easy.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Justyna Petke, Brad Alexander, Earl T. Barr, Markus Wagner, David Robert White
2019GECCOA survey of genetic improvement search spaces.Justyna Petke, Brad Alexander, Earl T. Barr, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Markus Wagner, David Robert White
2019GECCOA hybrid metaheuristic approach to a real world employee scheduling problem.Kenneth N. Reid, Jingpeng Li, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Mathias Kern, Nadarajen Veerapen, Jerry Swan, Gilbert Owusu
2019SSBSESoftware Improvement with Gin: A Case Study.Justyna Petke, Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2018GECCORelating training instances to automatic design of algorithms for bin packing via features.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Nadarajen Veerapen
2018GECCOA rolling window with genetic algorithm approach to sorting aircraft for automated taxi routing.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Michal Weiszer, Jun Chen
2018GECCOInvestigating benchmark correlations when comparing algorithms with parameter tuning.Lee A. Christie, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward
2017EUROGPExploring Fitness and Edit Distance of Mutated Python Programs.Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, David E. Cairns
2017GECCOFixing bugs in your sleep: how genetic improvement became an overnight success.Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Kristin Siggeirsdottir
2017GECCOGenetic improvement of runtime and its fitness landscape in a bioinformatics application.Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Albert V. Smith, Vilmundur Gudnason
2017ICSEThe Use of Automatic Test Data Generation for Genetic Improvement in a Live System.Saemundur O. Haraldsson, John R. Woodward, Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2016GECCOMining Markov Network Surrogates for Value-Added Optimisation.Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2016GECCOEvals is Not Enough: Why We Should Report Wall-clock Time.John R. Woodward, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Colin G. Johnson
2016GECCOGP vs GI: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them.John R. Woodward, Colin G. Johnson, Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2016GECCOConnecting Automatic Parameter Tuning, Genetic Programming as a Hyper-heuristic, and Genetic Improvement Programming.John R. Woodward, Colin G. Johnson, Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2015CECStructural coherence of problem and algorithm: An analysis for EDAs on all 2-bit and 3-bit problems.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A. W. McCall, Lee A. Christie
2015GECCOMetaheuristic Design Pattern: Surrogate Fitness Functions.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Jerry Swan
2015GECCOEmbedded Dynamic Improvement.Nathan Burles, Jerry Swan, Edward Bowles, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Zoltan A. Kocsis, Nadarajen Veerapen
2015GECCOGenerating Easy and Hard Problems using the Proximate Optimality Principle.John A. W. McCall, Lee A. Christie, Alexander E. I. Brownlee
2015SSBSEObject-Oriented Genetic Improvement for Improved Energy Consumption in Google Guava.Nathan Burles, Edward Bowles, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Zoltan A. Kocsis, Jerry Swan, Nadarajen Veerapen
2015SSBSEHaiku - a Scala Combinator Toolkit for Semi-automated Composition of Metaheuristics.Zoltan A. Kocsis, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Jerry Swan, Richard Senington
2014GECCOHyperion2: a toolkit for {meta-, hyper-} heuristic research.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Jerry Swan, Ender zcan, Andrew J. Parkes
2014SSBSERepairing and Optimizing Hadoop hashCode Implementations.Zoltan A. Kocsis, Geoffrey Neumann, Jerry Swan, Michael G. Epitropakis, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Saemundur O. Haraldsson, Edward Bowles
2012GECCOInfluence of selection on structure learning in markov network EDAs: an empirical study.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A. W. McCall, Martin Pelikan
2011GECCOA multi-objective window optimisation problem.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Jonathan A. Wright, Monjur M. Mourshed
2010CECUsing a Markov network as a surrogate fitness function in a genetic algorithm.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Olivier Regnier-Coudert, John A. W. McCall, Stewart Massie
2009CECStructure learning and optimisation in a Markov-network based estimation of distribution algorithm.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A. W. McCall, Siddhartha Shakya, Qingfu Zhang
2009CECA fully multivariate DEUM algorithm.Siddhartha Shakya, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A. W. McCall, Franois A. Fournier, Gilbert Owusu
2008CECApproaches to selection and their effect on fitness modelling in an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A. W. McCall, Qingfu Zhang, Deryck Forsyth Brown
2008CECBio-control in mushroom farming using a Markov network EDA.Yanghui Wu, John A. W. McCall, Paul Michael Godley, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, David E. Cairns, Julie Cowie
2008GECCOAn application of a multivariate estimation of distribution algorithm to cancer chemotherapy.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Martin Pelikan, John A. W. McCall, Andrei Petrovski
2008GECCOOptimisation and fitness modelling of bio-control in mushroom farming using a Markov network eda.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Yanghui Wu, John A. W. McCall, Paul Michael Godley, David E. Cairns, Julie Cowie
2007GECCOSolving the MAXSAT problem using a multivariate EDA based on Markov networks.Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A. W. McCall, Deryck Forsyth Brown
2005CECStatistical optimisation and tuning of GA factors.Andrei Petrovski, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A. W. McCall