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Jonathan Byrne

Biography

Research Interests:
General
Name and Title: 
Mr. Jonathan Byrne
Supervisor: 
Michael O'Neill
Co-Supervisor: 
Anthony Brabazon
Research Group: 
Natural Computing and Research Applications
Research Project: 
Evolutionary Design Exploration through Human Interaction
Email: 
Office: 
CASL / 2B

Biography

 Jonathan graduated from NUI Maynooth with a first Class Honours in Computer Science and Software Engineering. He then worked for Ericsson LMI and CR2 channel banking solutions before recommencing his academic career in the Natural Computing and Research Applications Group in UCD.

Publications

 

Byrne J., Hemberg E., O’Neill M., and Brabazon A. A local search interface for interactive evolutionary architectural design. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing, EvoApplications 2012: EvoMUSART, LNCS, Malaga, Spain, 2012. Springer Verlag. (pdf)

J. Byrne, M. O’Neill, and A. Brabazon. Structural and nodal mutation in grammatical evolution. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pages 1881–1882. ACM, 2009. (pdf)

Jonathan Byrne, James McDermott, Michael O’Neill, and Anthony Brabazon. An analysis of the behaviour of mutation in grammatical evolution. In Genetic Programming, Proceedings of EuroGP’2010, volume in press. Springer- Verlag, 2010. (pdf)

Michael O’Neill, James McDermott, John Mark Swafford, Jonathan Byrne, Erik Hemberg, Elizabeth Shotton, Ciaran McNally, Anthony Brabazon, and Martin Hemberg. Evolutionary design using grammatical evolution and shape grammars: Designing a shelter. International Journal of Design Engineering, 2011. (pdf)

Jonathan Byrne, Michael O’Neill and Erik Hemberg and Anthony Brabazon. Analysis of Constant Creation Techniques on the Binomial-3 Problem with Grammatical Evolution 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation,I EEE press ,2009  (pdf)

James McDermott, Jonathan Byrne, John Mark Swafford, Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon. Higher-Order Functions in Aesthetic EC Encodings, In Press, 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE press, 2010 (pdf)

Jonathan Byrne, James McDermott, Edgar Galvan and Michael O'Neill. Implementing an Intuitive Mutation Operator for Interactive Evolutionary 3D Design, In Press, 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE press, 2010 (pdf)

Jonathan Byrne, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon. Evolving Offiensive Moves in Toribash Using a Genetic Algorithm, 16th International Conference on Soft Computing, Brno, Czech Republic (pdf)

Byrne J., Fenton M., McDermott J., Hemberg E., O'Neill M., McNally C., Shotton E. 2011. Combining Structural Analysis and Multi-Objective Criteria for Evolutionary Architectural Design EvoMUSART 2011 9th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design Springer Torino, Italy  EvoMUSART 2011 (Best Paper award).  (pdf)

Byrne J., Hemberg E., O'Neill M. 2011. Interactive Operators for Evolutionary Architectural Design GECCO 2011: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation ACM Dublin, Ireland  (pdf)

Michael O'Neill and John Mark Swafford and James McDermott and Jonathan Byrne and Anthony Brabazon and Elizabeth Shotton and Ciaran McNally and Martin Hemberg, "Shape grammars and grammatical evolution for evolutionary design", GECCO '09: Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp. 1035-1042, ACM, 8-12 July 2009.