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Article

Menendez, Hector and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Camacho, David (2017) Extending the SACOC algorithm through the Nystrom method for Dense Manifold Data Analysis. International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, 10 (2). pp. 127-135. ISSN 1758-0366. E-ISSN 1758-0374. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBIC.2017.085894) (Full text available)
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Kampouridis, Michael and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2017) Heuristic procedures for improving the predictability of a genetic programming financial forecasting algorithm. Soft Computing, 21 (2). pp. 295-310. ISSN 1432-7643. E-ISSN 1433-7479. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-015-1614-8) (Full text available)
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Kampouridis, Michael and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Kampouridis, Michael (2016) Evolving Trading Strategies Using Directional Changes. Expert Systems with Applications, 73 . pp. 145-160. ISSN 0957-4174. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.12.032) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. (2016) Improving the Interpretability of Classification Rules Discovered by an Ant Colony Algorithm: Extended Results. Evolutionary Computation, 24 (3). pp. 385-409. ISSN 1063-6560. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00155) (Full text available)
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Menendez, Hector and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Camacho, David (2016) Medoid-based clustering using ant colony optimization. Swarm Intelligence, 10 (2). pp. 123-145. ISSN 1935-3812. E-ISSN 1935-3820. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11721-016-0122-5) (Full text available)
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Albinati, Julio and Oliveira, Samuel and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Pappa, Gisele L. (2015) An ant colony-based semi-supervised approach for learning classification rules. Swarm Intelligence, 9 (4). pp. 315-341. ISSN 1935-3812. E-ISSN 1935-3820. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11721-015-0116-8) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Masegosa, Antonio D. and Terrazas, Germán (2014) Thematic issue on advances in nature inspired cooperative strategies for optimization. Memetic Computing, 6 (3). pp. 147-148. ISSN 1865-9284. E-ISSN 1865-9292. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12293-014-0140-z) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. and Johnson, Colin G. (2013) A new sequential covering strategy for inducing classification rules with ant colony algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 17 (1). pp. 64-76. ISSN 1089-778X. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2012.2185846) (Full text available)
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Salama, Khalid M. and Abdelbar, Ashraf M. and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. (2013) Utilizing multiple pheromones in an ant-based algorithm for continuous-attribute classification rule discovery. Applied Soft Computing, 13 (1). pp. 667-675. ISSN 1568-4946. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2012.07.026) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. and Johnson, Colin G. (2012) Inducing decision trees with an ant colony optimization algorithm. Applied Soft Computing, 12 (11). pp. 3615-3626. ISSN 1568-4946. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2012.05.028) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. and Johnson, Colin G. (2010) A hierarchical multi-label classification ant colony algorithm for protein function prediction. Memetic Computing, 2 (3). pp. 165-181. ISSN 1865-9284. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12293-010-0045-4) (Full text available)
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Book section

Oliveira, Luiz O.V.B. and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Pappa, Gisele L. (2018) A Generic Framework for Building Dispersion Operators in the Semantic Space. In: Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XIV. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation . Springer, pp. 179-195. ISBN 978-3-319-97088-2. E-ISBN 978-3-319-97087-5. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97088-2_12) (Full text available)
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Oliveira, Luiz O.V.B. and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Pappa, Gisele L. and Albinati, Julio (2015) Sequential Symbolic Regression with Genetic Programming. In: Worzel, Bill and Kotanchek, Mark and Riolo, Rick, eds. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XII. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation . Springer, pp. 73-90. ISBN 978-3-319-16029-0. E-ISBN 978-3-319-16030-6. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16030-6_5) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Kampouridis, Michael (2014) A Comparative Study on the Use of Classification Algorithms in Financial Forecasting. In: Applications of Evolutionary Computation 17th European Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 276-287. ISBN 978-3-662-45522-7. E-ISBN 978-3-662-45523-4. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45523-4_23) (Full text available)
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Menendez, Hector and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Camacho, David (2014) MACOC: a medoid-based ACO clustering algorithm. In: Swarm Intelligence 9th International Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 122-133. ISBN 978-3-319-09951-4. E-ISBN 978-3-319-09952-1. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09952-1_11) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Segond, Marc and Freitas, Alex A. and Johnson, Colin G. and Robilliard, Denis and Fonlupt, Cyril (2009) An empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of different types of predictor attributes in protein function prediction. In: Abraham, Ajith and Hassanien, Aboul-Ella and Snasel, Vaclav, eds. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Studies in Computational Intelligence 205, Founda . Springer, Berlin, pp. 339-357. ISBN 3-642-01535-2. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01536-6_13) (Full text available)
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Conference or workshop item

Helal, Ayah and Brookhouse, James and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2018) Archive-Based Pheromone Model for Discovering Regression Rules with Ant Colony Optimization. In: 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). IEEE pp. 1-7. ISBN 978-1-5090-6018-4. E-ISBN 978-1-5090-6017-7. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2018.8477643) (Full text available)
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Brookhouse, James and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2018) Post-Processing Methods to Enforce Monotonic Constraints in Ant Colony Classification Algorithms. In: Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, USA pp. 1-8. ISBN 978-1-5090-6015-3. E-ISBN 978-1-5090-6014-6. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2018.8489543) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. (2017) MYRA: A Java Ant Colony Optimization Framework for Classification Algorithms. In: GECCO '17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. ACM, New York, USA pp. 1247-1254. ISBN 978-1-4503-4939-0. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/3067695.3082471) (Full text available)
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Helal, Ayah and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2017) Automatic design of ant-miner mixed attributes for classification rule discovery. In: GECCO '17: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. ACM pp. 433-440. ISBN 978-1-4503-4920-8. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071306) (Full text available)
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Oliveira, Luiz O.V.B. and Miranda, Luis F. and Pappa, Gisele L. and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Takahashi, Ricardo H.C. (2016) Reducing Dimensionality to Improve Search in Semantic Genetic Programming. In: PPSN 2016: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Springer pp. 375-385. ISBN 978-3-319-45822-9. E-ISBN 978-3-319-45823-6. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_35) (Full text available)
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Brookhouse, James and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2016) Monotonicity in Ant Colony Classification Algorithms. In: Swarm Intelligence: Proceedings of 10th International Conference, ANTS 2016. 10th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2016). Springer-Verlag Berlin pp. 137-148. ISBN 978-3-319-44426-0. E-ISBN 978-3-319-44426-0. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44427-7_12) (Full text available)
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Oliveira, Luiz O.V.B. and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Pappa, Gisele L. (2016) A Dispersion Operator for Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming. In: Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. ACM Press pp. 773-780. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2908812.2908923) (Full text available)
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Helal, Ayah and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2016) A Mixed-Attribute Approach in Ant-Miner Classification Rule Discovery Algorithm. In: Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. ACM Press pp. 13-20. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2908812.2908900) (Full text available)
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Brookhouse, James and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2016) Using an Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Monotonic Regression Rule Discovery. In: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), 20-24 July 2016, Denver, United States. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2908812.2908896) (Full text available)
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Oliveira, Luiz O.V.B. and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Miranda, Luis F. and Pappa, Gisele L. (2016) Revisiting the Sequential Symbolic Regression Genetic Programming. In: 2016 5th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS). pp. 163-168. ISBN 978-1-5090-3566-3. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2016.039) (Full text available)
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Santos, Valeria and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Johnson, Colin G. and Osorio, Fernando and Toledo, Claudio (2016) Exploratory Path Planning Using the Max-Min Ant System Algorithm. In: 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2016). pp. 4229-4235. E-ISBN 978-1-5090-0623-6. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2016.7744327) (Full text available)
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Salama, Khalid M. and Abdelbar, Ashraf M. and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2015) Investigating Evaluation Measures in Ant Colony Algorithms for Learning Decision Tree Classifiers. In: 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. IEEE pp. 1146-1153. ISBN 978-1-4799-7560-0. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.2015.164) (Full text available)
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Brookhouse, James and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2015) Discovering Regression Rules with Ant Colony Optimization. In: Proceedings of the 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Conference Companion (GECCO'15 Companion). ACM Press pp. 1005-1012. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2739482.2768450) (Full text available)
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Albinati, Julio and Pappa, Gisele L. and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2015) The Effect of Distinct Geometric Semantic Crossover Operators in Regression Problems. In: Genetic Programming: 18th European Conference, EuroGP 2015 Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8–10, 2015 Proceedings. Genetic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pp. 3-15. ISBN 978-3-319-16500-4. E-ISBN 978-3-319-16501-1. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16501-1_1) (Full text available)
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Gypteau, Jeremie and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Kampouridis, Michael (2015) Generating Directional Change Based Trading Strategies with Genetic Programming. In: 18th European Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoStar 2015. (Full text available)
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Salama, Khalid M. and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2014) Learning Multi-Tree Classification Models with Ant Colony Optimization. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications. INSTICC Press pp. 38-48. ISBN 978-989-758-052-9. (doi:https://doi.org/10.5220/0005071300380048) (Full text available)
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Menendez, Hector and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Camacho, David (2014) SACOC: A spectral-based ACO clustering algorithm. In: Intelligent Distributed Computing VIII. Studies in Computational Intelligence. pp. 185-194. ISBN 978-3-319-10421-8. E-ISBN 978-3-319-10422-5. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10422-5_20) (Full text available)
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Leroux, Claris and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Johnson, Colin G. (2014) A Genetic Programming Problem Definition Language Code Generator for the EpochX Framework. In: 16th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Companion (GECCO’14 Companion). pp. 1149-1154. ISBN 978-1-4503-2881-4. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2598394.2605691) (Full text available)
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Brookhouse, James and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Kampouridis, Michael (2014) Working with OpenCL to Speed Up a Genetic Programming Financial Forecasting Algorithm: Initial Results. In: 16th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Companion (GECCO’14 Companion). pp. 1117-1124. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2598394.2605689) (Full text available)
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Kampouridis, Michael and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2013) Using attribute construction to improve the predictability of a GP financial forecasting algorithm. In: Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2013). pp. 55-60. ISBN 978-1-4799-2528-5. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TAAI.2013.24) (Full text available)
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Vaseux, Loic and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Castle, Tom and Johnson, Colin G. (2013) Event-based graphical monitoring in the EpochX genetic programming framework. In: 15th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Companion (GECCO’13 Companion). pp. 1309-1316. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2464576.2482710) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. (2013) Improving the interpretability of classification rules discovered by an ant colony algorithm. In: Improving the interpretability of classification rules discovered by an ant colony algorithm. ACM Press., New York, NY, USA. pp. 73-80. ISBN 978-1-4503-1963-8. (Full text available)
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Salama, Khalid M. and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2013) Using a unified measure function for heuristics, discretization, and rule quality evaluation in Ant-Miner. In: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). pp. 900-907. ISBN 978-1-4799-0453-2. E-ISBN 978-1-4799-0452-5. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2013.6557663) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Johnson, Colin G. (2013) Automated Problem Decomposition for the Boolean Domain with Genetic Programming. In: 16th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2013). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer pp. 169-180. ISBN 978-3-642-37206-3. E-ISBN 978-3-642-37207-0. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37207-0_15) (Full text available)
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Salama, Khalid M. and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2012) Exploring Different Functions for Heuristics, Discretization, and Rule Quality Evaluation in Ant-Miner. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer pp. 344-345. ISBN 978-3-642-32649-3. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32650-9_38) (Full text available)
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Medland, Matthew and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. (2012) Improving the cAnt-MinerPB Classification Algorithm. In: Dorigo, Marco and Birattari, Mauro and Blum, Christian and Christensen, Anders Lyhne and Engelbrecht, Andries P. and Groß, Roderich and Stützle, Thomas, eds. Swarm Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7461. Springer Berlin Heidelberg pp. 73-84. ISBN 978-3-642-32649-3. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32650-9) (Full text available)
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Medland, Matthew and Otero, Fernando E.B. (2012) A Study of Different Quality Evaluation Functions in the cAnt-MinerPB Classification Algorithm. In: Proceedings of the 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Conference (GECCO 2012). ACM Press pp. 49-55. (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Castle, Tom and Johnson, Colin G. (2012) EpochX: Genetic Programming in Java with Statistics and Event Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Conference Companion (GECCO 2012). ACM Press, Philadelphia (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2330784.2330800) (Full text available)
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Moraglio, Alberto and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Johnson, Colin G. and Thompson, Simon and Freitas, Alex A. (2012) Evolving Recursive Programs using Non-recursive Scaffolding. In: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. pp. 1596-1603. (Full text available)
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Moraglio, Alberto and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Johnson, Colin G. (2010) The ACO Encoding. In: Dorigo, Marco, ed. Swarm Intelligence - 7th International Conference (ANTS 2010). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6234. pp. 182-196. (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Johnson, Colin G. and Freitas, Alex A. and Thompson, Simon (2010) Refactoring in Automatically Generated Programs. In: 2nd International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering, 7-9th September 2010, Benevento, Italy. (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. and Johnson, Colin G. (2009) Handling continuous attributes in ant colony classification algorithms. In: Proc. of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (CIDM 2009). IEEE Press pp. 225-231. ISBN 978-1-4244-2765-9. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/CIDM.2009.4938653) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. and Johnson, Colin G. (2009) A hierarchical classification ant colony algorithm for predicting gene ontology terms. In: Pizzuti, C. and Ritchie, M.D. and Giacobini, M., eds. Proc. 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EvoBio-2009). Springer pp. 68-79. ISBN 978-3-642-01183-2. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01184-9_7) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. and Johnson, Colin G. (2008) cAnt-Miner: an ant colony classification algorithm to cope with continuous attributes. In: Dorigo, Marco, ed. Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (Proc. ANTS 2008), LNCS 5217. Springer pp. 48-59. ISBN 978-3-540-87526-0. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87527-7_5) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Silva, Monique M.S and Freitas, Alex A. and Nievola, Julio C. (2003) Genetic Programming for Attribute Construction in Data Mining. In: Ryan, Conor and Keijzer, Maarten and Poli, Riccardo and Soule, Terence and Tsang, Edward and Costa, Ernesto, eds. Genetic Programming: Proc. 6th European Conference (EuroGP-2003). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2610. Springer-Verlag pp. 384-393. ISBN 978-3-540-00971-9. E-ISBN 978-3-540-36599-0. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36599-0_36) (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Silva, Monique M.S and Freitas, Alex A. (2002) Genetic Programming for Attribute Construction in Data Mining. In: Proc Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conf (GECCO-2002). Morgan Kaufmann, Publishers, San Francisco p. 1270. ISBN 1-55860-878-8. (Full text available)
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Otero, Fernando E.B. and Freitas, Alex A. (2000) Sumarizacao de textos usando algoritmos de classificacao. In: Lethelier, E. and Bortolozzi, F. and Weber, K.C. and Pereira, H., eds. Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Knowledge Management/Document Management (ISKM/DM-2000). Editora Universitaria Champagnat (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil pp. 347-357. (Full text available)
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Thesis

Otero, Fernando E.B. (2010) New ant colony optimisation algorithms for hierarchial classification of protein functions. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, Computing. (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Edited book

Terrazas, German and Otero, Fernando E.B. and Masegosa, Antonio D., eds. (2013) Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2013). Studies in Computational Intelligence, 512 . Springer, 355 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-01691-7. E-ISBN 978-3-319-01692-4. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01692-4) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

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