John Woodward

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1. E. K. Burke, M. Hyde, G. Kendall, G. Ochoa, E. Ozcan, and J. Woodward (2009). A Classification of Hyper-heuristics Approaches, Handbook of Metaheuristics, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, M. Gendreau and J-Y Potvin (Eds.), Springer. pdf.
2. E. K. Burke, M. R. Hyde, G. Kendall, G. Ochoa, E. Ozcan and J. R. Woodward (2009) Exploring Hyper-heuristic Methodologies with Genetic Programming, Computational Intelligence: Collaboration, Fusion and Emergence, In C. Mumford and L. Jain (eds.), Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer, pp. 177-201 pdf.

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Book Reviews

3. Automating the Design of Data Mining Algorithms by Alex Frietas and Gisele Pappa for Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (in preparation).

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Journal Articles

4. Woodward, J., Evans A., Dempster, P. A Syntactic Justification Of Occam's Razor (in review journal, Theoretical Computer Science)
5. Is Natural Evolution a Efficient Paradigm For Program Induction; A Critique of Genetic Programming, (in review, journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 10th Anniversary Edition)
6. Burke, E. K. and Hyde, M. R. and Kendall, G. and Woodward, J., A Genetic Programming Hyper-Heuristic Approach for Evolving Two Dimensional Strip Packing Heuristics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (to appear)", 2010.
7. Physics Letters B, Vol 227, number 1, 17 August 1989. (WA76 Collaboration).

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Conference Papers

8. Rodriguez, R. & Woodward, J. (2009) Linear Genetic Programming with Multiple Outputs (in review, conference paper)
9. John Woodward and Nabil Gindy A Hyper-Heuristic Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Eco-efficient Product life Cycle. International Conference on Responsible Manufacturing 2010 Ningbo China word.doc. slides.
10. Woodward J. Computable and Incomputable Search Algorithms and Functions. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (IEEE ICIS 2009) November 20-22,2009 Shanghai, China. pdf.
11. Woodward, J. & Bai, R. (2009) Why Evolution is not a Good Paradigm for Program Induction; A Critique of Genetic Programming 2009 World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (2009 GEC Summit) June 12-14 Shanghai, China published by the ACM Digital Library, indexed by SCI and EI. Winner of Best Paper in Conference pdf. slides.
12. Woodward, J. (2009) A Canonical Representation for Genetic Programming at 2009 World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (2009 GEC Summit) June 12-14 Shanghai, China published by the ACM Digital Library, indexed by SCI and EI. pdf. slides.
13. Burke E. K., Hyde M., Kendall G., and Woodward J. R. Scalability of Evolved On Line Bin Packing Heuristics Proceedings of Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007 September 2007 ps. pdf. slides.
14. Poli R., Woodward J. R., and Burke E. K. A Histogram-matching Approach to the Evolution of Bin-packing Strategies Proceedings of Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007 September 2007 pdf.
15. Burke E. K., Hyde M., Kendall G., and Woodward J. Automatic Heuristic Generation with Genetic Programming: Evolving a Jack-of-all-Trades or a Master of One Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2007 London UK. pdf. slides.
16. John R. Woodward, Complexity and Cartesian Genetic Programming. European Conference on Genetic Programming 2006, 10-12 April 2006, Budapest, Hungary. ps. pdf. Springer. slides.
17. John R. Woodward, Invariance of Function Complexity under Primitive Recursive Functions. Accepted at European Conference on Genetic Programming 2006, 10-12 April 2006, Budapest, Hungary. pdf. Springer.
18. John Woodward, Evolving Turing Complete Representations, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Canberra, Australia, 8th - 12th December 2003 Nominated Best Paper in Conference. pdf.
19. John Woodward, GA or GP, that is not the question, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Canberra, Australia, 8th - 12th December 2003 ps. pdf.
20. (with James Neil) No Free Lunch, Program Induction and Combinatorial Problems, Genetic Programming 6th European Conference, EuroGP 2003 Essex, UK, April 2003. ps. pdf.
21. Modularity in Genetic Programming, Genetic Programming 6th European Conference, EuroGP 2003 Essex, UK, April 2003. ps. pdf.

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Workshop Papers

22. Woodward, J., Parkes, A., Ochoa, G. (2008) A Mathematical Formalization of Hyper-Heuristics. Workshop on Hyper-Heuristics Automating the Heuristic Design Process http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gxo/hhworkshop.html. , presented at 10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN-08) September 13-17, 2008 Technische University Dortmund, Germany. Highest scoring paper. pdf.
23. Woodward, J., Evans A., Dempster, P. (2008) A Syntactic Justification of Occam's Razor. October 31 to November 2, 2008 2008 Midwest, A New Kind of Science Conference Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana pdf.
24. John Woodward, Complexity and Cartesian Genetic Programming. Accepted at The 5th annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, London, Sept 5-7 2005. pdf.
25. John Woodward, Invariance of Function Complexity under Primitive Recursive Functions. Published at The 5th annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, London, Sept 5-7 2005. pdf.
26. John Wooddward, Design, Complexity and Abstraction. Design out of complexity workshop. Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management Conference (CUPUM) and the AHRB/EPSRC Embracing Complexity in Design (ECiD) Research Cluster, 2nd July 2005 pdf.
27. John Woodward, Lateral non-classical thinking. The Grand Challenge in Non-Classical Computation International Workshop 18-19th April 2005 pdf.
28. J. Woodward, Simple Incremental Testing, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2004 Conference June 26-30 2004, Seattle, Washington USA. Late breaking papers ps. pdf.
29. J. Woodward Evolving Turing Complete Representations, Published at The 2003 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence 1 - 3 September 2003 University of Bristol.
30. J. Woodward, Function Set Independent Genetic Programming, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2004 Conference June 26-30 2004, Seattle, Washington USA. Workshop on Modularity, Regularity, and Hierarchy in Evolutionary Computation ps. pdf.
31. J. Woodward, GA or GP, that is not the question, Published at The 2003 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence 1 - 3 September 2003 University of Bristol.
32. John R. Woodward and James R. Neil No Free Lunch, Program Induction and Combinatorial Problems, pdf. The 2002 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2002) Birmingham.

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Theses

33. Phd Thesis, The University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science, (2005) Algorithm Induction, Modularity and Complexity pdf. Under supervision of Xin Yao.
34. MSc Thesis, The University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science, (1997) The Use of Genetic Programming to Control a Sheep-Dog. Under supervision of Aaron Sloman.

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Technical Reports

35. Edmund K. Burke, Matthew Hyde, Graham Kendall Gabriela Ochoa, Ender Ozcan and John Woodward. A Classification of Hyper-heuristic Approaches. Computer Science Technical Report No. NOTTCS-TR-SUB-0906241359-0664 2009 pdf.