Welcome to Ke Tang's homepage

My research interests:

• Maching Learning and Pattern Analysis
• Evolutionary Computation
• Data Mining
• Meta-heuristic Algorithms
• Various Real-world Applications

Professional activities:

• Chair of IEEE Task Force on Large Scale Global Optimization (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee)
  webpage of the Task Force
  
  
• Guest Editor of the special issue of Information Sciences Journal (Elsevier) on "Nature Inspired Problem-Solving: Theories and Applications", 2008. (available HERE)
  
  
• Chair/Organizer of Academic Events
  Co-Chair of The 2008 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA'08)
  Chair of the Special session and Competiton on Large Scale Global Optimization at CEC2008(WCCI2008)
  
  
• Program committee member of
  15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2008), November 25-28, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
  7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, December 7-10, 2008, Melbourne, Australia.
  7th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems, September 9-10, 2008, London, UK.
  7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2008), July 12-15, 2008, Kunming, China.
  3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS2008), September 24-26, Burgos, Spain.
  Workshop cum Summer School on Evolutionary Computing (WSSEC2008), August 18-22, 2008, Northern Ireland.
  The Twenty First International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE2008), June 18-20, 2008, Wroclaw, Poland.
  The First European Workshop on Bio-inspired Algorithms for Continuous Parameter Optimisation (EvoNUM), March 26-28, 2008, Napoli, Italy.
  IEEE SMC UK&RI 6th Conference on Cybernetic Systems, September 6-7, 2007, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
  6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2007), August 19-22, 2007, Hong Kong, China.
  
  
• Referee for several international journals.

Teaching:

• Pattern Recognition(CS05148)

Referred Journal Papers:

1. Zhenyu Yang, Ke Tang and X. Yao, "Large Scale Evolutionary Optimization Using Cooperative Coevolution," Information Sciences, 178(15): 2985-2999, 2008.
   
   
2. G. Pugalenthi, Ke Tang, P. N. Suganthan, G. Archunan and R. Sowdhamini, "A Machine Learning Approach for the Identification of Odorant binding Proteins from Sequence-derived Properties," BMC-Bioinformatics, 8:351, September 2007. (Co-first author with G. Pugalenthi)
   
   
3. E. K. Tang, P. N. Suganthan, X. Yao, "Gene Selection Algorithms for Microarray Data Based on Least Suqare Support Vector Machine," BMC-Bioinformatics, 7:95, 27 February 2006.
   
   
4. E. K. Tang, P. N. Suganthan, X. Yao, "An Analysis of Diversity Measures," Machine Learning, 65: 247-271, 2006.
   
   
5. E. K. Tang, P. N. Suganthan, X. Yao and A. K. Qin, "Linear Dimensionality Reduction Using Relevance Weighted LDA," Pattern Recognition, 38(4):485-493, April 2005.
   
   

Referred Conference Papers:

1. Ke Tang, Zai Wang, Xianbin Cao and Jun Zhang, "A Multi-objective Evolutionary Approach to Aircraft Landing Scheduling Problems," in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2008), Hongkong, China, 2008, pp. 3651-3657.
   
   
2. Minlong Lin, Ke Tang and Xin Yao, "Selective Negative Correlation Learning Algorithm for Incremental Learning," in Proceedings of the 2008 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2008), Hongkong, China, 2008, pp. 2526-2531.
   
   
3. Zai Wang, Ke Tang and Xin Yao, "A Multi-objective Approach to Testing Resource Allocation in Modular Software Systems," in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2008), Hongkong, China, 2008, pp. 1148-1153.
   
   
4. Xin Yu, Ke Tang and Xin Yao, "An Immigrants Scheme Based on Environmental Information for Genetic Algorithms in Changing Environments," in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2008), Hongkong, China, 2008, pp. 1141-1147.
   
   
5. Zhenyu Yang, Ke Tang and Xin Yao, "Self-adaptive Differential Evolution with Neighborhood Search," in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2008), Hongkong, China, 2008, pp. 1110-1116.
   
   
6. Zhenyu Yang, Ke Tang and Xin Yao, "Multilevel Cooperative Coevolution for Large Scale Optimization," in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2008), Hongkong, China, 2008, pp. 1663-1670.
   
   
7. Tianshi Chen, Ke Tang, Guoliang Chen and Xin Yao, "On the Analysis of Average Time Complexity of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms," in Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2007), Singapore, 2007, pp. 453-460
   
   
8. Zhenyu Yang, Ke Tang and Xin Yao, "Differential Evolution for High-Dimensional Function Optimization," in Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2007), Singapore, 2007, pp. 3523-3530.
   
   
9. A. Ashish, G. Fogel, E. K. Tang and P. N. Suganthan, "Feature Selection Approach for Quantitative Prediction of Transcriptional Activities," in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB06).
   
   
10. E. K. Tang, P. N. Suganthan, X. Yao, "Feature Selection for Microarray Data Using Least Squares SVM and Particle Swarm Optimization," in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB05), San Diego, USA, November 2005, pp. 9-17.
    
    
11. E. K. Tang, P. N. Suganthan and X. Yao, "Nonlinear Feature Extraction Using Evolutionary Algorithm," in Proceedings of the11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP04), Calcutta, India, November 2004, LNCS Vol. 3316, pp. 1014-1019.
    
    
12. E. K. Tang, P. N. Suganthan and X. Yao, "Generalized LDA Using Relevance Weighting and Evolution Strategy," in Proceedings of the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC04), Portland, USA, June 2004, pp. 2230-2234.
    
    

Last updated at June 15, 2008.