Professor Joshua Knowles

Professor Joshua Knowles

School of Computer Science
Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Josh works full time in the AI group of Schlumberger Cambridge Research developing algorithms to support the energy transition. 

Qualifications

Formerly Professor of Natural Computation:

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Authority
  • PhD in Computer Science, University of Reading, 2002
  • MSc (Dist’n) in Information Systems Engineering, University of Reading, 1996
  • PGCE, University of Reading, 1994
  • BSc (Hons) in Physics with subsid Maths, University of Reading, 1993

Postgraduate supervision

artificial intelligence, swarm intelligence, computational intelligence, evolutionary computation, global optimisation, decision making, reinforcement learning.

Other activities

Josh is a Royal Voluntary Service Responder in the present pandemic.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Garza-Fabre, M, Handl, J & Knowles, J 2017, 'An improved and more scalable evolutionary approach to multiobjective clustering', IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. PP, no. 99. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2017.2726341

Lyon, RJ, Stappers, BW, Cooper, S, Brooke, JM & Knowles, J 2016, 'Fifty years of pulsar candidate selection: from simple filters to a new principled real-time classification approach', Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices, vol. 459, no. 1, pp. 1104-1123. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw656

Garza-Fabre, M, Kandathil, S, Handl, J, Knowles, J & Lovell, S 2016, 'Generating, maintaining and exploiting diversity in a memetic algorithm for protein structure prediction', Evolutionary Computation, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 577-607. https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00176

Conference contribution

Caldwell, J, Knowles, J, Thies, C, Kubacki, F & Watson, R 2021, Deep optimisation: multi-scale evolution by inducing and searching in deep representations. in PA Castillo & JL Jiménez Laredo (eds), Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 24th International Conference, EvoApplications 2021, Held as Part of EvoStar 2021, Virtual Event, April 7–9, 2021, Proceedings. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12694 LNCS, Springer, pp. 506-521, 24th International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2021 held as Part of EvoStar 2021, Virtual, Online, 7/04/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72699-7_32

Shavarani, SM, López-Ibáñez, M & Knowles, J 2021, Realistic utility functions prove difficult for state-of-the-art interactive multiobjective optimization algorithms. in F Chicano (ed.), GECCO '21: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 457-465, 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2021, Virtual, Online, France, 10/07/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449639.3459373

Miller, S & Knowles, J 2018, A Minimal Model for the Emergence of Cooperation in Randomly Growing Networks. in P Andrews, L Caves, R Doursat, S Hickinbotham, F Polack, S Stepney, T Taylor & J Timmins (eds), Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015. MIT Press, pp. 114-121, European Conference on Artificial Life 2015, York, United Kingdom, 20/07/15. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-33027-5-ch026

Webb, AM, Handl, J & Knowles, J 2018, How Much Should You Select for Evolvability? in P Andrews, L Caves, R Doursat, S Hickinbotham, F Polack, S Stepney, T Taylor & J Timmis (eds), Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015. MIT Press, pp. 487-494, European Conference on Artificial Life 2015, York, United Kingdom, 20/07/15. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-33027-5-ch086

Garza-Fabre, M, Handl, J & Knowles, J 2017, A New Reduced-Length Genetic Representation for Evolutionary Multiobjective Clustering. in Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 9th International Conference, EMO 2017, Munster, Germany, March 19 - March 22, 2017, Proceedings. vol. 10173, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 236-251, 9th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, Munster, Germany, 19/03/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54157-0_17

Hakanen, J & Knowles, J 2017, On using decision maker preferences with ParEGO. in Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 9th International Conference, EMO 2017, Munster, Germany, March 19 - March 22, 2017, Proceedings. vol. 10173, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 282-297, 9th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, Munster, Germany, 19/03/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54157-0_20

Shir, OM, Bäck, T, Knowles, J & Allmendinger, R 2017, Sequential experimentation by evolutionary algorithms. in GECCO 2017 - Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. GECCO 2017 - Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 828-851, 2017 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO 2017, Berlin, Germany, 15/07/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3067695.3067701

Miller, S & Knowles, J 2016, Global network cooperation catalysed by a small prosocial migrant clique. in M Amos & A Condon (eds), Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation: 15th International Conference, UCNC 2016, Manchester, UK, July 11-15, 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9726, Springer, pp. 62-74, 15th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2016), Manchester, United Kingdom, 11/07/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41312-9_6

Michalak, K & Knowles, JD 2016, Simheuristics for the Multiobjective Nondeterministic Firefighter Problem in a Time-Constrained Setting. in G Squillero & P Burelli (eds), Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 19th European Conference, EvoApplications 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30 - April 1, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. vol. LNCS 9598, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9598, Springer, pp. 248-265, Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EVOSTOC 2016), Porto, Portugal, 30/03/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31153-1_17

Miller, S & Knowles, J 2016, The Emergence of Cooperation in Public Goods Games on Randomly Growing Dynamic Networks. in Evolutionary Algorithms and Complex Systems (EVOCOMPLEX 2016): EvoWorkshops, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9597, Springer, pp. 363-378, EVOCOMPLEX 2016, Porto, Portugal, 30/03/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31204-0_24

Editorial

Greco, S, Klamroth, K, Knowles, J & Rudolph, G 2017, 'Editorial: Special Issue on Understanding Complexity in Multiobjective Optimization', Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, vol. 24, no. 1-2, pp. 3-4. https://doi.org/10.1002/mcda.1609

Brockhoff, D, Knowles, J, Naujoks, B & Sindhya, K 2017, 'Special Issue on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization - Editorial', Computers & Operations Research, vol. 79, pp. 264-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2016.11.023

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