Core Publications by the
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization Group, University of Essex

Extended list of publications in:
http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/CSP/papers.html (constraint optimization, scheduling)
http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/CSP/finance/papers.html (computational finance)

(Latex version to add)

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Constraint Satisfaction

General Reference

Tsang, E.P.K., Foundations of constraint satisfaction, Academic Press, London, 1993

Modelling

Borrett, J. & Tsang, E.P.K. A context for constraint satisfaction problems formulation selection, Constraints, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol.6, No.4, 2001, 299-327 (early version)

Computer-aided Constraint Programming (CACP)

Tsang, E.P.K., Ford, J., Mills, P., Bradwell, R., Williams, R. & Scott, P. Towards a Practical Engineering Tool for Rostering, Annals of Operational Research, Special Issue on Personnel Scheduling and Planning, Accepted for publication, January 2006 (early version)

Guided Genetic Algorithm (GGA)

Lau, T.L. & Tsang, E.P.K., Guided genetic algorithm and its application to radio link frequency assignment problems, Constraints, Vol.6, No.4, 2001, 373-398

Guided Local Search (GLS, latest)

Mills, P. & Tsang, E.P.K. & Ford, J., Applying an Extended Guided Local Search on the Quadratic Assignment Problem, Annals of Operations Research, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol.118, 2003, 121-135 (early version)

Guided Local Search (GLS, Original)

Voudouris, C. & Tsang, E.P.K., Guided local search, in F. Glover (ed.), Handbook of metaheuristics, Kluwer, 2003, 185-218

Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA)

General Reference

to add

EDA for Global optimization

Q. Zhang, J. Sun, E.P.K. Tsang & J.A. Ford, Hybrid estimation of distribution algorithm for global optimization, Engineering Computations, Vol.21, No.1, 2004, 91-107

EDA Application in scheduling: 

E.P.K.Tsang, T.Gosling, B.Virginas, C.Voudouris & G.Owusu Proceedings, 2nd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory & Applications (MISTA), New York, July 2005, 485-500

 

More to add: preferably only add ISI indexed journal papers published after 2001, with indices to guide others when to use them (the MISTA paper above doesn't qualify, it was added temporarily).

Genetic Programming (GP)

GP for Forecasting: EDDIE

E.P.K. Tsang & J. Li, EDDIE for financial forecasting, in S-H. Chen (ed.), Genetic Algorithms and Programming in Computational Finance, Kluwer Series in Computational Finance, 2002, Chapter 7, 161-174

Arbitrage Chance Discovery: EDDIE-ARB

Tsang, E.P.K., Markose, S. & Er, H., Chance discovery in stock index option and future arbitrage, New Mathematics and Natural Computation, World Scientific, Vo.1, No.3, 2005, 435-447 (early version)

Computational Finance

General Reference

E.P.K. Tsang & S.Martinez-Jaramillo, Computational Finance, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Newsletter, August 2004, 3-8

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