Sarah L Thomson, PhD Researcher

About

Hi! I'm a third year PhD student, ardently researching evolutionary computation for combinatorial optimisation problems. I am fully proficient in: C, Python, Java, and R. Please read my CV below and feel free to contact me! Many thanks, and have a positive and productive day!

Email: s.l.thomson@stir.ac.uk

Room: Room 4B101, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling

Publications

Title: Comparing Communities of Optima with Funnels in Combinatorial Fitness Landscapes
Publisher: The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (2017)
Type of publication: conference paper
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Authors: Sarah L. Thomson, Fabio Daolio, and Gabriela Ochoa.

Title: The Effect of Landscape Funnels in QAPLIB Instances
Publisher: The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Companion Proceedings, 2017)
Type of publication: workshop conference paper
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Authors: Sarah L. Thomson, Gabriela Ochoa, Fabio Daolio, and Nadarajen Veerapen

Title: On the Fractal Nature of Local Optima Networks (Nominated for Best Student Paper)
Publisher: The 18th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP, part of EvoStar 2018)
Type of publication: conference paper
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Authors: Sarah L. Thomson, Sebastien Verel, Gabriela Ochoa, Nadarajen Veerapen, Paul Mcmenemey

Title: Multifractality and Dimensional Determinism in Local Optima Networks
Publisher: The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (2018)
Type of publication: conference paper

Link to paper
Authors: Sarah L. Thomson, Sebastien Verel, Gabriela Ochoa, Nadarajen Veerapen and David Cairns

Title: Clarifying the Difference in Local Optima Network Sampling Algorithms (Accepted+nominated for Best Paper)
Publisher: The 19th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP, part of EvoStar 2019)
Type of publication: conference paper

Authors: Sarah L. Thomson, Gabriela Ochoa, Sebastien Verel

Sarah Thomson, PhD Researcher