Staff

• Colm O' Riordan
• Josephine Griffith
• Ronan Cummins

Collaborators

• Dara Curran (UCC)

Current Postgraduate Students

• Alan Cunningham (PhD Candidate)
  Evolution of stable societies and social structures


• Fergal Costello (PhD Candidate)
  Computational Intelligence Approaches to game design and generation


• John Conroy (PhD Candidate)
  Social Search


• David Keaveney (PhD Candidate)
  Application of Evolutionary Computation to strategic multi-player games


• Seamus Hill (PhD candidate)
  Researching the influence of genetic operators including the inversion operator using the NK model as a means of measuring of performance of operators.


• Menglin Li (PhD candidate)
  Evolutionary Game Theory


• Arjumand Younus (PhD candidate) (co-supervision with Prof. G. Pasi, University of Milan)
  Information Retrieval


• Atif Qureshi (PhD candidate) (co-supervision with Prof. G. Pasi, University of Milan)
  Information Retrieval


• Terry Lyons (M.Sc candidate)
  Computational Intelligence in Games


• Colin Divilly (M.Sc Software Design and Development)
  Evolutionary Computation


• Robert Dooley (M.Sc Software Design and Development)
  Information Retrieval

Past Postgraduate Students

• Ethan McMeekin
  An analysis of Strategies within a turn based war strategy game


• Liam Lynch
  String Matching in Large Datasets Using Orthographic, Phonetic and Semantic Search Algorithms


• Brendan Fahey
  Evolving a Language: Toward Open-Ended Evolution


• Thomas Mitchell
  Recommendation in Geo-Social Networks


• Steven Connolly
  Improving twitter search by removing spam, reducing redundancy and ranking results


• David Power
  


• Menglin Li (M.Sc. Software Design and Development)
  An Analysis of Multi-Chromosome GAs on Deceptive Problems


• Damien Jordan (M.Sc. Software Design and Development)
  An analysis of evolved strategies for Mancala games
• Glenn Goulden
  


• Conor O'Malley (M.Sc. by Research (Applied Computing and IT))
  Cooperation, Trust and Graph Properties in Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma Games


• Nigel Burke (M.Sc. Software Design and Development
  An heuristic based approach to team based behaviours in real time strategy games


• Yashwanth Tiruvaipati (M.Sc. Software Design and Development)
  A game-theoretic approach to modelling emotions in NPCs in computer games


• Darren Doherty (PhD)
  Evolving novel behaviours for NPCs in computer games.


• Ronan Cummins (PhD)
  Applying evolutionary computation techniques to information retreival


• Michael Smullen (MSc in Applied Computing and IT)
  Modelling context in information retrieval


• Pilib O'Broin (MSc Software Design & Development)
  Evolution of deceptive strategies in auctions


• Donal Kelly (MSc Software Design & Development)
  Evolution of strategies in spatially organised N-Player Dilemmas


• Dara Curran (PhD)
  Incorporating cultural learning and memes into traditional evolutionary computation techniques


• Marguerite Moran (MSc in Applied Computing and IT)
  Multi-Agent Systems - Trust and Reputation


• Orla Martin (MSc in Applied Computing and IT)
  Natural Language Processing techniques for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval


• Mary Newell (MSc in Applied Computing and IT)
  Cultural evolution and social norms in multi-agent systems


• David Saunders(M.Sc. in Software Design and Development)
  Using genetic programming to evolve novel behaviours in computer games


• Lisa Henry (M.Sc. Software Design and Development)
  Analysis of the effects of dominance structures in groups


• Martina Manning (MSc in Software Design and Development.)


• Aidan McKiernan (MSc in Software Design and Development.)


• Anthony O' Brien (MSc in Software Design and Development.)


• Ciaran Ryan. (MSc in Software Design and Development.)
  Graph representations in cross-lingual IR.


• Ronan Cummins. (MSc in Software Design and Development).
  Evolutionary Computation in Information Retrieval.


• Cathy Daly. (MSc in Software Design and Development.)
  Graph representations and algorithms for Information Retrieval.


• Padraic O'Connell. (MSc. in Software Design and Development).
  Formal methods in Multi-agent Systems


• John Cusack. (MSc in Software Design and Development.)
  Trading in MAS.


• Farrah Reddington. (MSc in Software Design and Development.)
  Incorporating User Feedback and Transparency in an IR system for web-based education.


• Marguerite Murray. (MSc in Software Design and Development)
  Novelty as a useful metric for Information Retreival


• Martina Scully (MSc in Software Design and Development)
  Collaborative Filtering and Information Retrieval in Web-based Education.


• Owen Fallon (MSc in Software Design and Development)
  Trust and Reputation in Agent based systems.


• Orla Lahart (Msc in Software Design and Development)
  Algorithms and systems for music retrieval, clustering and creation.


• Seamus Hill (M.Sc. in Software Design and Development)


• Paula McDermott (MSc. in Software Design and Development)
  A multi-agent system for information trading and management


• Davin McLoone (MSc. in Software Design and Development)
  Data mining techniques to aid users in browsing


• Howley E (Simulations of a trust model in MAS)
  
• Sean Ryan (MSc. in Applied Computing and Information Technology)
  Distributed information retrieval

Please check the main IT Dept site for research information by other groups and staff.