Publications

Most papers in Computer Science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
— Peter J. Landin

Automatic Algorithm Design

• Tavares, J. and Pereira., F. B., Automatic Design of Ant Algorithms with Grammatical Evolution, in Proc. of the 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2012), Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012 [Best Paper Award] [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Pereira., F. B., Towards the Development of Self-Ant Systems, in Proc. of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011), Dublin, Ireland, June 12-16, 2011 [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Pereira., F. B., Designing Pheromone Update Strategies with Strongly Typed Genetic Programming, in Proc. of the 14th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2011), Torino, Italy, April 27-29, 2011 [Nominated for Best Paper Award] [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Pereira., F. B., Evolving Strategies for Updating Pheromone Trails: a Case Study with the TSP, in Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2010), Krakow, Poland, September 11-15, 2010 [PDF]

Molecular Docking

• Mesmoudi, S., and Tavares, J., and Jourdan, L. and Talbi, E., Variable Genetic Operator Search for the Molecular Docking Problem, In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, ML and Data Mining in BioInformatics (EvoBIO2010), Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010 [Nominated for Best Paper Award] [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Mesmoudi, S. and Talbi, E.,On the Efficiency of Local Search Methods for the Molecular Docking Problem, In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, ML and Data Mining in BioInformatics (EvoBIO09), Tuebigen, Germany, April 15-17, 2009 [Nominated for Best Paper Award] [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Tantar, A., and Melab, N., and Talbi, E., The Impact of Local Search on Protein-Ligand Docking Optimization, in Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Pon Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2008), Barcelona, Spain, September 10-12, 2008 [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Tantar, A., and Melab, N., and Talbi, E., The Influence of Mutation on Protein-Ligand Docking Optimization: a Locality Analysis, in Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2008), pp- 589-598, Dortmund, Germany, September 13-17, 2008 [PDF]

Combinatorial Optimization and Fitness Landscape Analysis

• Tavares, J. and Pereira, F. and Costa, E. , Multidimensional Knapsack Problem: A Fitness Landscape Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – Part B, Vol. 38, # 3, In Press, June 2008 [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Pereira, F. and Costa, E. , Golomb Rulers: a Fitness Landscape Analysis, in Proc. of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2008), IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Hong Kong, June 2008 [PDF]
• Tavares, J. , Evolvability in Optimization Problems: the Role of Representations and Heuristics, Ph.D thesis, July 2007
• Tavares, J. and Pereira, F. B. and Costa, E. , The Role of Representation on the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem by means of Fitness Landscape Analysis, in Proc. of the 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’06), IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006 [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Pereira, F. B. and Costa, E. , Golomb Rulers: Experiments with Marks Representation, 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA05), Coimbra, March 2005
• Tavares, J. and Leitão, T. and Pereira, F. B. and Costa, E. , Evolving Segments Length in Golomb Rulers, 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA05), Coimbra, March 2005
• Tavares, J. and Pereira, F. B. and Costa, E. , Understanding the Role of Insertion and Correction in the Evolution of Golomb Rulers, in Proc. of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation Conference (CEC2004), Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Portland, Oregon, June 2004 [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Pereira, F. B. and Costa, E. , Evolving Golomb Rulers, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004), Seattle, Washington USA, June 2004
• Pereira, F. B. and Tavares, J. and Costa, E., Golomb Rulers: The Advantage of Evolution, Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA’03), Beja, Portugal, December 2003 [PDF]

Vehicle Routing Problem

• Pereira, F. B. and Tavares, J. Bio-inspired Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem, Studies in Computational Intelligence series, volume 161, ISBN 978-3-540-85151-6, Springer-Verlag, 2009 [Online version]
• Tavares, J. and Pereira, F. B. and Machado, P. and Costa, E. , Crossover and Diversity: A Study about GVR, in Proc. of the Proceedings of the Analysis and Design of Representations and Operators (ADoRo’2003), pp. 27-33, a bird-of-a-feather workshop at the 2003 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003), Chicago, Illinois USA, July 2003
• Tavares, J. and Pereira, F. B. and Machado, P. and Costa, E. , On the Influence of GVR in Vehicle Routing, in Proc. of the 2003 ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2003), pp. 753-758, Melbourne, Florida USA, March 2003 [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Pereira, F. B. and Machado, P. and Costa, E., GVR Delivers It On Time, in Proc. of the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL’02), pp. 745-749, Singapore, November 2002 [PDF]
• Pereira, F. B. and Tavares, J. and Machado, P. and Costa, E., GVR: a New Genetic Representation for the Vehicle Routing Problem, in Proc. of the 13th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2002), pp. 95-102, Limerick, Ireland, September 2002 [PDF]
• Machado, P. and Tavares, J. and Pereira, F. B. and Costa, E., Vehicle Routing Problem: Doing it the Evolutionary Way, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-02, New York, USA, July [PDF]

Cluster Geometry Optimization

• Pereira, F. and Marques, J. and Leitão, T. and Tavares, J., Designing Efficient Evolutionary Algorithms for Cluster Optimization: A Study on Locality, in Advances in Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization, Natural Computing Series, pp. 223-250, P. Siarry, Z. Michalewicz, December 2007 [PDF]
• Leitão, T. and Pereira, F. and Tavares, J. and Costa, E. , Niching Techniques: a Study on the Cluster Geometry Optimization Problem, in Proc. of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), London, UK, July 2007 [PDF]
• Pereira, F. B. and Marques, J. and Leitão, T. and Tavares, J. , Analysis of Locality in Hybrid Evolutionary Cluster Optimization, in Proc. of the 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’06), IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006 [PDF]

Other Topics

• Machado, P. and Tavares, J. and Cardoso, A. and Pereira, F. B. and Costa, E. , Evolving Creativity, Computational Creativity Workshop, 7th European Conference in Case Based Reasoning, Madrid, August 2004 [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Machado, P. and Cardoso, A. and Pereira, F. B. and Costa, E. , On the Evolution of Evolutionary Algorithms, in Proc. of the EuroGP 2004 Proceedings, 7th European Conference on Genetic Programming, Coimbra, Portugal, April 2004 [PDF]
• Machado, P. and Pereira, F. B. and Tavares, J. and Costa, E. and Cardoso, A. , Evolutionary Turing Machines: The quest for busy beavers, in Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing, Leandro N. de Castro , Fernando J. Von Zuben, January 2004 [PDF]
• Tavares, J. and Kreutzer, C. and Fedor, A. , Neuro-Cellular Automata: Connecting Cellular Automata, Neural Networks and Evolution, Proceedings of the Santa Fe Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 2006
• Makowsky, M. and Tavares, J. and Makany, T. and Meier, P. ,An Agent-based Model of Crisis-driven Migration, Proceedings of the Santa Fe Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 2006