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Research

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Alan Turing

Background

Interests

At the moment my research interests are broadly in the area of complex systems, biologically inspired computing and artificial intelligence in general. I am interested in understanding some principles and mechanisms that are important to develop systems that have an understanding of complexity and emergence and exploit it for their own use. A key issue is to study the ability for incorporating self-organization into this development process. In addition, one of my research goals is the application of the previous techniques and research results to more practical application areas and real-world problems. Interdisciplinary work is also a major interest of mine, which I consider fundamental for research.

Selected Publications

I had the pleasure to edited with Francisco B. Pereira a book on the topic where I started to do research when I was still an undergraduate student. The book contains the latest advances regarding bio-inspired approaches to the Vehicle Routing Problem:

VRP_Book

Besides the book, these are some of my publications that try to cover my recent work as well as the most important topics I have done in the past. I hope this list keeps changing! Anyway, for a full list of papers that I have written or contributed, the publications page is the best place to took.

Written by Jorge Tavares

June 22, 2009 at 2:43