Difference between revisions of "Janez Brest"

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Title: Associate Professor Level of education: Ph. D. in Computer Science Membership in organizations: IEEE, ACM Room: F-204, Tuesday 9 -11h Phone: (+386 62) 220 7452 E-mail: janez.brest@uni-mb.si Home page: http://marcel.uni-mb.si/janez/

Research ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8013-2008

Programme-Funded Units

• Computer systems, methodologies and cybernetics, until 2003; member of the program group.
• Computer Systems, Methodologies, and Intelligent Services, from 2004; member of the program group.

Research work

• Research activity of the laboratory
• Differential evolution and self-adaptation of parameters (see also bibliography)

• Multiobjective optimization and evolutionary algorithms

• Reviewers and other activities
  • member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • reviewer for international scientific journal IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  • reviewer for international scientific journal Evolutionary Computation - MIT Press
  • reviewer for international scientific journal Information Sciences - Elsevier
  • reviewer for international scientific journal Computers & Industrial Engineering - Elsevier
  • reviewer for international scientific journal Advances in Engineering Software - Elsevier
  • etc...
  • PC member of track GT:Evolutionary Optimization IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway 2009
  • PC member of track SS:Differential Evolution IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway 2009
  • PC member of track SS:Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway 2009
  • PC member of track SS:Performance Assesment of Constrained/Bound Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway 2009
  • reviewer for international scientific conference International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'09), International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology
  • reviewer for international scientific conference Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO'09), International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology
  • international program commitee member of International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'07), International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology
  • reviewer for international scientific conference International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'08), International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology
  • international technical comitee member of IEEE WCCI CEC2008, Hong Kong (Congress on Evolutionary Computation)
  • reviewer for international scientific conference IEEE WCCI CEC2008, Hong Kong (Congress on Evolutionary Computation)
  • international program comitee member of IEEE CEC2007, Singapur (Congress on Evolutionary Computation)
  • reviewer for international scientific conference IEEE CEC2007, Singapur (Congress on Evolutionary Computation)
  • reviewer for international scientific conference (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2006, Vancouver, Canada (Congress on Evolutionary Computation))
  • program committe member (International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications -- BIOMA'06, BIOMA008)
  • workshop member of Algoritmi po vzorih iz narave
• Bibliography accessible trough system COBISS
  • researcher profile at SICRIS
    • evaluation of bibliographic indicators of research efficiency with ARRS methodology

Book chapters

• J. Brest. Constrained Real-Parameter Optimization with ε-Self-Adaptive Differential Evolution Constraint-Handling in Evolutionary Optimization Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 198, Mezura-Montes, Efrén (Ed.) 2009, Approx. 265 p., Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-642-00618-0, Due: March 2009

• J. Brest, A. Zamuda, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. An Analysis of the Control Parameters’Adaptation in DE. Advances in Differential Evolution, Studies in Computational Intelligence, (ISBN: 978-3-540-68827-3), Chakraborty, Uday K. (Ed.), 2008, vol. 143, pp. 89-110.

• B. Bošković, S. Greiner, J. Brest, A. Zamuda, V. Žumer. An Adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithm with Opposition-Based Mechanisms, Applied to the Tuning of a Chess Program. Advances in Differential Evolution, Studies in Computational Intelligence, (ISBN: 978-3-540-68827-3), Chakraborty, Uday K. (Ed.), 2008, vol. 143, pp. 287-298.

Bibliography in BibTeX, PDF, or DVI format (see also bibliography)

Highly cited TEC paper

Paper J. Brest, S. Greiner, B. Boskovic, M. Mernik, V. Zumer. Self-Adapting Control Parameters in Differential Evolution: A Comparative Study on Numerical Benchmark Problems. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2006, Vol. 10, Issue 6, pp. 646-657. DOI 10.1109/TEVC.2006.872133 has been cited several times:

• (4.10.2009):
  • 26 citations in JCR journals (source ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - Thomson Reuters)
  • 46 citations in JCR journals and in ISI proceedings (source: ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - Thomson Reuters)
  • 67 citations (source Scopus)
  • 88 citations (source: Google Scholar)
  • Our paper takes 3rd place in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION journal among all papers published in YEAR 2006, based on how many times the article has been cited. (source: ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - na strežniku Thomson Reuters).

• (6.5.2009):
  • 14 citations in JCR journals (source ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - Thomson Reuters)
  • 30 citations in JCR journals and in ISI proceedings (source: ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - Thomson Reuters)
  • 49 citations (source Scopus)
  • 59 citations (source: Google Scholar)
  • Our paper takes 3rd place in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION journal among all papers published in YEAR 2006, based on how many times the article has been cited. (source: ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - na strežniku Thomson Reuters).

• (27.2.2009):
  • 11 citations in JCR journals (source ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - Thomson Reuters)
  • 19 citations in JCR journals and in ISI proceedings (source: ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - Thomson Reuters)
  • 41 citations (source Scopus)
  • 51 citations (source: Google Scholar)
  • Our paper takes 4th place in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION journal among all papers published in YEAR 2006, based on how many times the article has been cited. (source: ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science)).

• (04.11.2008):
  • 7 citations in JCR journals (source Web of Science - local server IZUM)
  • 14 citattions in JCR journals and in ISI proceedings (source: ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - Thomson Reuters)
  • 24 citations (source Scopus)
  • 30 citations (source: Google Scholar)
  • Our paper takes 3rd place in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION journal among all papers published in YEAR 2006, based on how many times the article has been cited. (source: ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science)).

Highly cited SC paper

Paper J. Brest, B. Boskovic, S. Greiner, V. Zumer, M. Sepesy Maucec. Performance comparison of self-adaptive and adaptive differential evolution algorithms. Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, 2007, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 617-629. DOI 10.1007/s00500-006-0124-0 has been cited several times:

• (4.10.2009):
  • 6 citations in JCR journals (source ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - Thomson Reuters)
  • 16 citations in JCR journals and in ISI proceedings (source: ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) - Thomson Reuters)
  • 20 citations (source Scopus)
  • 23 citations (source: Google Scholar)
  • Our paper takes 1st place in Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications journal among all 122 papers published in YEAR 2007, based on how many times the article has been cited. (source: ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science)).