Publications

Edited books - Journal papers - Reviews - Peer reviewed international conference papers - Peer reviewed national conference papers - Articles - Thesis - Technical reports

Edited books

1. Proceedings of the 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'15, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Sara Silva,  July 2015. ACM [doi]

2. Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Kevin Sim, Paul Kaufman, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar et al. (eds) Volumes 10785 and 10786 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018

3. Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Giovanni Squillero, Kevin Sim, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar et al. (eds) Volumes 10199 and 10200 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017 [doi 10.1007/978-3-319-55848-3]

   1. Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Giovanni Squillero, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar et al. (eds) Volume 9597 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2016 [doi 10.1007/978-3-319-31204-0]

   2. Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Antonio Mora, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar et al. (eds) Volume 9068 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2015 [doi 10.1007/978-3-319-16549-3]

   3. Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar et al. (eds) Volume 8602 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014 [ doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-45523-4 ]

   4. Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar et al. (eds) Volume 7835 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013 [ doi 10.1007/978-3-642-37192-9]

   5. Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Cecilia Di Chio, Alexandros Agapitos, Stefano Cagnoni, Carlos Cotta, Francisco Fernández de Vega, Gianni A. Di Caro, Rolf Drechsler, Anikó Ekárt, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar and Muddassar Farooq, et al. (eds) Volume 7248 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012  [ doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-29178-4 ]

   6. Applications of Evolutionary Computation Part I, Cecilia Di Chio, Stefano Cagnoni, Carlos Cotta, Marc Ebner, Anikó Ekárt, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Juan J. Merelo, Ferrante Neri, Mike Preuss and Hendrik Richter, et al. (eds) Volume 6624 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011 [ doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20525-5 ]

   7. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Anikó Ekárt, Sara Silva, Stephen Dignum, and Sima Etaner-Uyar, editors. Genetic Programming - Proceedings of the 13th European Conference, volume 6021 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Istanbul, Turkey, 7 - 9 April 2010. Springer-Verlag. EuroGP'2010 held in conjunction with EvoCOP2010, EvoBIO2010 and EvoApplications2010. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12148-7)

   8. Cecilia Di Chio, Stefano Cagnoni, Carlos Cotta, Marc Ebner, Anikó Ekárt, Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar, Chi-Keong Goh, JJ Merelo, Ferrante Neri, Mike Preuss, Julian Togelius, and Georgios N Yannakakis, editors. Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Part I, volume 6024 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Istanbul, Turkey, 7 - 9 April 2010. Springer-Verlag. EvoApplications2010 held in conjunction with EuroGP'2010, EvoCOP2010 and EvoBIO2010. [ doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12239-2 ]

   9. Mario Giacobini, Anthony Brabazon, Stefano Cagnoni, Gianni A. Di Caro, Anikó Ekárt, Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar, Muddassar Farooq, Andreas Fink, Penousal Machado, Jon McCormack, Michael O'Neill, Ferrante Neri, Mike Preuss, Franz Rothlauf, Ernesto Tarantino, and Shengxiang Yang, editors. Applications of Evolutionary Computing, volume 5484 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Tübingen, Germany, 15 - 17 April 2009. Springer-Verlag. EvoWorkshops2009 held in conjunction with EuroGP'2009, EvoCOP2009, and EvoBIO2009. ISBN: 978-3-642-01128-3. (doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0)

   10. O'Neill M., Vanneschi L., Gustafson S., Esparcia-Alcázar A.I., De Falco I., Della Cioppa A., and Tarantino E., editors. Genetic Programming - Proceedings of the 11th European Conference, volume 4971 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Napoli, Italy, 26 - 28 March 2008. Springer-Verlag. EuroGP'2008 held in conjunction with EvoCOP2008, EvoBIO2008 and EvoWorkshops2008. ISBN: 978-3-540-78670-2.

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   12. Mario Giacobini, Anthony Brabazon, Stefano Cagnoni, Gianni A. Di Caro, Rolf Drechsler, Anikó Ekárt, Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar, Muddassar Farooq, Andreas Fink, Jon McCormack, Michael O’Neill, Juan Romero, Franz Rothlauf, Giovanni Squillero, Sima Uyar A. and Shengxiang Yang, editors. Applications of Evolutionary Computing, volume 4974 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Napoli, Italy, 26 - 28 March 2008. Springer-Verlag. EvoWorkshops2008 held in conjunction with EuroGP'2008, EvoCOP2008, and EvoBIO2008. ISBN: 978-3-540-78760-0.

   13. [ DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78761-7 ]

   14. Marc Ebner, Michael O'Neill, Anikó Ekárt, Leonardo Vanneschi, and Anna Isabel Esparcia-Alcázar, editors. Genetic Programming - Proceedings of the 10th European Conference, volume 4445 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Valencia, Spain, 11 - 13 April 2007 (doi:10.1007%2F978-3-540-71605-1).

   15. Joan Bta. Peiró, Anna Esparcia, Paulo Urbano, Juan Jesús Romero and Penousal Machado, ArtEscapes 2007- Variacions de la vida en les arts multimèdia. Catalogue of the exhibition. 11 April – 18 May 2007. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. ISBN 978-84-8363-106-5 (BNE fiche)

Journal papers

• 1. Esparcia-Alcázar, A.I., Almenar, F., Vos, T.E.J. et al. Using genetic programming to evolve action selection rules in traversal-based automated software testing: results obtained with the TESTAR tool Memetic Comp. (2018) 10: 257-265. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12293-018-0263-8

  2. E. Alfaro-Cid, K. Sharman and A.I. Esparcia-Alcázar Genetic Programming and Serial Processing for Time Series Classification Evolutionary Computation (2014) 22:2, pp 265-285 (doi:10.1162/EVCO_a_00110)

  3. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar & Jaroslav Moravec, Fitness Approximation for Bot Evolution in Genetic Programming - Lessons learned from the UT2004 Computer Game.  Soft Comput (2013) 17(8):1479–1487 DOI 10.1007/s00500-012-0965-7

  4. Merelo, J.J., Mora, A.M., Fernandes, C.M. & Esparcia-Alcázar, Anna I., Designing and testing a pool-based evolutionary algorithm. Natural Computing (2013) 12:2, pp149-162 DOI 10.1007/s11047-012-9338-5, Springer Netherlands

1. E. Alfaro-Cid, J. J. Merelo, F. Fernández de Vega, A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar, and K. Sharman. Bloat control operators and diversity in genetic programming: a comparative study. Evolutionary Computation, 18(2):305-332, 2010. ISSN: 1063-6560

2. Ken Sharman and Anna Esparcia-Alcázar. Evolutionary Methods for Designing Digital Filters. Contemporary Music Review (Taylor & Francis), 22(2):5-19, 2003. DOI 10.1080/0749446032000150843

Reviews

1. Esparcia, Anna, Review of PPSN 2016: 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, SIGEVOlution (2017) 9:3,  ISSN 1931-8499, pp. 12--13,  DOI 10.1145/3066862.3066864, ACM, New York, NY, USA

   1. A.I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Review of  Introduction to Evolutionary Computation, 2nd ed. A.E. Eiben & J.E. Smith. Mathematical Reviews, April 12 2016 (URL) 

Book chapters

1. F. Barceló-Rico, A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar, A. Villalón. Semi-supervised classification system for the detection of Advanced Persistent Threats. In Rami Abielmona et al., editors, Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence in Security and Defense. Part II,  Volume 621 of Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, pp 225-248, Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-26448-6  DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26450-9_9

2. P. de las Cuevas , Z. Chelly, A. M. Mora, J. J. Merelo, A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar, An Improved Decision System for URL Accesses Based on a Rough Feature Selection Technique In Rami Abielmona et al., editors, Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence in Security and Defense. Part II,  Volume 621 of Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, pp 139-167, Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-26448-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26450-9_6

3. J. J. Merelo, Zeineb Chelly, Antonio Mora, Antonio Fernández-Ares, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Carlos Cotta, P. de las Cuevas, Nuria Rico, A Statistical Approach to Dealing with Noisy Fitness in Evolutionary Algorithms  Computational Intelligence Part I, International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2014 Rome, Italy, October 22-24, 2014 Revised Selected Papers, Volume 620 of the series Studies in Computational Intelligence pp 79-95. Springer, 2016. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26393-9_6 

4. A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar, M. Cardós, JJ Merelo, A.I. Martínez-García, P. García-Sánchez, E. Alfaro-Cid, and K. Sharman. EVITA: an integral evolutionary methodology for the Inventory and Transportation Problem. In Francisco B. Pereira and Jorge Tavares, editors, Bio-Inspired Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem, volume 161 of Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, pages 151-172. Springer, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-540-85151-6. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85152-3_7 

5. E. Alfaro-Cid, A. M. Mora, J. J. Merelo, A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar, and K. Sharman. Finding relevant variables in a financial distress prediction problem using Genetic Programming and Self-Organizing Maps. In A. Brabazon and M. O'Neill, editors, Natural Computing in Computational Finance, Volume 2, volume 185 of Studies in Computational Intelligence Series. Springer, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-540-95973-1. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-95974-8_3

   1. E. Alfaro-Cid, A. Cuesta-Cañada, K. Sharman, and A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar. Strong typing, variable reduction and bloat control for solving the bankruptcy prediction problem using genetic programming. In A. Brabazon and M. O'Neill, editors, Natural Computing in Computational Finance, volume 100 of Studies in Computational Intelligence Series. Springer, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-540-77476-1. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77477-8_9

Peer reviewed international conference papers

• 1. Mirella Martínez, Anna I. Esparcia-AlcázarTanja E. J. Vos, Pekka Aho,Joan Fons i Cors, Towards Automated Testing of the Internet of Things: Results Obtained with the TESTAR Tool. In: Margaria T., Steffen B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Distributed Systems. ISoLA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11246. Springer, Cham DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03424-5_25 

  2. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Francisco Almenar, Urko Rueda, and Tanja E.J. Vos, Evolving rules for action selection in automated testing via genetic programming - a first approach. In Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 20th European Conference, EvoApplications 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 19-21, 2017, Proceedings, Part II , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 10200), pages , Springer. DOI:

  3. A.I. Esparcia-Alcázar, F. Almenar, M.O. Martinez, T.E.J. Vos, C. Hamill, U. Rueda (2017) The MODERN project Audit and Pedagogic Report on Tools for E-Learning. In Proceedings of the 11th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2017), pages 7038-7046, DOI: 

  4. Almenar, F., Esparcia-Alcázar, A. I., Martinez, M., Rueda, U. (2016). Automated testing of web applications with TESTAR- Lessons learned testing the ODOO tool.  In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE'16), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 9962), pages 218-223, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47106-8_15

  5. Martinez, M., Esparcia-Alcázar, A. I.,  Rueda, U., Vos, T.E.J., Ortega, C. (2016). Automated Localisation Testing in Industry with Test∗.  In Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS 2016) pp 241-248  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 9976), DOI:  10.1007/978-3-319-47443-4_17

  6. Esparcia-Alcázar, A. I., Almenar, F., Martinez, M., Rueda, U., Vos, T.E.J. (2016). Q-learning strategies for action selection in the TESTAR automated testing tool.  In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (META'16), pages 174-180, DOI:

  7. Rueda, U., Esparcia-Alcazar A.I. and Vos, T.E.J.: Visualization of automated test results obtained by the TESTAR tool. Proceedings of the XIX Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIBSE 2016)

  8. Esparcia-Alcázar, A. I., Hamill, C. Almenar, F. Martinez, M. Rueda, U., Vos, T.J. (2016). An investigation into the most promising tools for e-learning: The MODERN Toolkit Project  In Proceedings of the  International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED-2016), pages -, DOI:  10.21125/inted.2016.1568

  9. U. Rueda, T.E.J. Vos, F. Almenar, M. Oreto, A. Esparcia: TESTAR – from academic protoype towards an industry-ready tool for automated testing at the User Interface level. Jornadas de Ingeniería de Software y Bases de Datos, JISBD 2015, September 2015, Santander.

  10. Merelo, J. J., Castillo, P. A., Mora, A., Fernández-Ares, A., Esparcia-Alcázar, A. I., Cotta, C., & Rico, N. (2014). Studying and Tackling Noisy Fitness in Evolutionary Design of Game Characters.  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA-2014), pages76-85, DOI: 10.5220/0005085700760085

  11. JJ Merelo, P. Castillo, A. Mora, A.I. Esparcia-Alcázar, V.M. Rivas Santos, Assessing Different Architectures for Evolutionary Algorithms in JavaScript, In Proceedings of the 2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2014, Vancouver, Canada, 12 - 16 July 2014.

  12. Juan Julián Merelo, Pedro A. Castillo, Antonio M. Mora, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Víctor Manuel Rivas-Santos, NodEO, a Multi-Paradigm Distributed Evolutionary Algorithm Platform in JavaScript, GECCO 2014 companion volume

  13. A.M. García, P. De las Cuevas, JJ Merelo, S. Zamarripa, A.I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Enforcing Corporate Security Policies via Computational Intelligence Techniques, Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation in Defense, Security and Risk Management at GECCO 2014, Vancouver, Canada. GECCO Comp '14 Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation DOI: 10.1145/2598394.2605438

  14. A. M. Mora, P. De las Cuevas, J. J. Merelo, S. Zamarripa, M. Juan, A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar, M. Burvall, H. Arfwedson, and Z. Hodaie. 2014. MUSES: a corporate user-centric system which applies computational intelligence methods. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '14), pp 1719-1723. DOI=10.1145/2554850.2555059

  15. Esparcia-Alcazar, A.I., Martinez-Garcia, A. ; Garcia-Sanchez, P. ; Merelo, J.J. ; Mora, A.M., Towards a multiobjective evolutionary approach to inventory and routing management in a retail chain.Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2013 IEEE Congress on, 20-23 June 2013. Pp. 3166 - 3173 DOI:10.1109/CEC.2013.6557957

1. Merelo Guervos, Juan-J, Mora, Castillo, Pedro, Antonio M.Esparcia-Alcazar, A.I., Improving evolutionary solutions to the game of mastermind using an entropy-based scoring method, In Proceedings of the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — July 06 - 10, 2013, Pages 829-836  DOI: 10.1145/2463372.2463473

   1. Merelo Guervos, Juan-J, Mora, Antonio M., Cruz Almaguer, J. Albert, Esparcia-Alcazar, Anna I. and Cotta, Carlos, Scaling in distributed evolutionary algorithms with persistent population. In CEC 2012 Proceedings, 2012, DOI:10.1109/CEC.2012.6256622

   2. Juan-J Merelo-Guervós, Antonio Mora, J. Albert Cruz and Anna I. Esparcia, Pool-based Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms using an Object Database, In EvoApplications 2012 Proceedings, LNCS 7248, pp 441--450, 2012,Cecilia di Chio et al. (eds)

   3. JJ Merelo, AM Mora, CM Fernandes, AI Esparcia-Alcazar, JLJ Laredo, Pool vs. island based evolutionary algorithms: an initial exploration Seventh International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC), 2012  Pp.19-24. IEEE

   4. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Ana I. Martínez-García, Antonio Mora, J.J. Merelo, and Pablo García-Sánchez. Controlling bots in a first person shooter game using genetic algorithms. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 18 - 23 July 2010. IEEE Press. DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2010.5586059

   5. Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar, Eva Alfaro-Cid, Pablo García-Sánchez, Anaís Martínez-García, and J.J. Merelo. An evolutionary approach to integrated inventory and routing management in a real world case. In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2010, Pages: 1 - 7, IEEE Press. DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2010.5586183

   6. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Anaís Martínez-García, Antonio Mora, J.J. Merelo, and Pablo García-Sánchez. Genetic evolution of fuzzy finite state machines to control bots in a first-person shooter game. In Proceedings of the 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA, 7 - 11 July 2010. ACM Press. DOI: 10.1145/1830483.1830633 

   7. Antonio Miguel Mora, Ramón Montoya, Juan Julián Merelo, Pablo García Sánchez, Pedro Angel Castillo, Juan Luís Jiménez Laredo, Ana Isabel Martínez-García, and Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar. Evolving bot AI in Unreal. In Di Chio et al., pages 170-179. Applications of Evolutionary Computation - Procs of European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications2010, volume 6024 of  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 171-180, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2010. Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-642-12239-2

   8. Eva Alfaro-Cid, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Pilar Moya, J.J. Merelo, Beatriu Femenia-Ferrer, Ken Sharman, and Jaime Primo. Multiobjective genetic programming approach for a smooth modeling of the release kinetics of a pheromone dispenser. Workshop on Symbolic Regression and Modeling at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference 2009, (GECCO-2009), Montreal, Canada, July 2009. Sheridan Printing. DOI: 10.1145/1570256.1570309

   9. Eva Alfaro-Cid, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Pilar Moya, Beatriu Femenia-Ferrer, Ken Sharman, and J.J. Merelo. Modeling pheromone dispensers using genetic programming. In M. Giacobini and et al., editors, Proceedings of 2nd European Workshop on Bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimisation (EvoNUM'09), volume 5484 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 635-644, Tübingen, Germany, April 2009. Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-642-01128-3.

   10. Eva Alfaro-Cid, Antonio Mora, J.J. Merelo, Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, and Ken Sharman. A SOM and GP tool for reducing the dimensionality of a financial distress prediction problem. In Mario Giacobini et al., editor, Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance and Economics (EvoFIN'08), volume 4974 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 123-132, Naples, Italy, March 2008. Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-540-78760-0.

   11. A. Esparcia-Alcázar, A. Martínez-García, J. Albarracín-Guillem, Palmer-Gato M., J. Merelo, K. Sharman, and E. Alfaro-Cid. A multiobjective evolutionary algorithm for the linear shelf space allocation problem. In Proc. 10'th Int. Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN2008), volume LNCS 5199, pages 1001-1010. Springer, 13-17 September 2008. ISBN: 978-3-540-87699-1. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87700-4_99

   12. J. Merelo, A. Mora, P. Castillo, J. Laredo, L. Araujo, K. Sharman, A. Esparcia-Alcázar, E. Alfaro-Cid, and C. Cotta. Testing the intermediate disturbance hypothesis: Effect of asynchronous population incorporation on multi-deme evolutionary algorithms. In Proc. 10'th Int. Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN2008), volume LNCS 5199, pages 266-275. Springer, 13-17 September 2008. ISBN: 978-3-540-87699-1.

   13. Eva Alfaro-Cid, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Ken Sharman, Francisco Fernández de Vega, and J.J. Merelo. Prune and plant: a new bloat control method for genetic programming. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS2008), pages 31-35, Barcelona, Spain, 10-12 September 2008.

   14. Antonio Mora, Eva Alfaro-Cid, Pedro A. Castillo, J.J. Merelo, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, and Ken Sharman. Discovering causes of financial distress by combining evolutionary algorithms and artificial neural networks. In GECCO '08 Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, Pages 1243-1250 , Atlanta, USA, July 2008. DOI: 10.1145/1389095.1389337

   15. Eva Alfaro-Cid, Pedro A. Castillo, Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, Ken Sharman, J.J. Merelo, and Antonio M. Mora. Comparing multiobjective evolutionary ensembles for minimizing type I and II errors for bankruptcy prediction. In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008, Hong Kong, July 2008. IEEE. Pages: 2902 - 2908, DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2008.4631188

   16. Eva Alfaro-Cid, Antonio Mora, J.J. Merelo, Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, and Ken Sharman. A SOM and GP tool for reducing the dimensionality of a financial distress prediction problem. In Mario Giacobini et al., editor, Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance and Economics (EvoFIN'08), volume 4974 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 123-132, Naples, Italy, March 2008. Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-540-78760-0.

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   18. Lidia Lluch-Revert, Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, José Miguel Albarracín-Guillem, and Marta E Palmer-Gato. A new two-stage approach to solve the linear shelf space allocation problem. In Kay Chen Tan and Jian Xin Xu, editors, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, pages 4475-4482, Singapore, September 2007. IEEE. ISBN: 1-4244-1340-0. DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2007.4425057

   19. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Lidia Lluch-Revert, Manuel Cardós, Ken Sharman, and JJ Merelo. Configuring an evolutionary tool for the inventory and transportation problem. In Maarten Keijzer et al., editor, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2007, volume II, pages 1975-1982, London, England, July 2007. ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-59593-697-4.DOI: 10.1145/1276958.1277350

   20. Eva Alfaro-Cid, Ken Sharman, and Anna Esparcia-Alcázar. A genetic programming approach for bankruptcy prediction using a highly unbalanced database. In Mario Giacobini et al., editor, Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance and Economics (EvoFIN’07), volume 4448 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 169-178, Valencia, Spain, April 2007. Springer-Verlag.

   21. J.L.J. Laredo, P.A. Castillo, B. Paechter, A. Mora, E. Alfaro-Cid, A.I. Esparcia-Alcázar, and J.J. Merelo. Empirical validation of a gossiping communication mechanism for parallel EAs. In Mario Giacobini et al., editor, Proceedings of the Fourth European Workshop on the application of Nature-inspired techniques to Telecommunication Networks and other Connected Systems (EvoCOMNET'07), volume 4448 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 129-136, Valencia, Spain, April 2007. Springer-Verlag.

   22. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Lidia Lluch-Revert, José Miguel Albarracín-Guillem, Marta E Palmer-Gato and Ken Sharman. Towards an evolutionary tool for the allocation of supermarket shelf space. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2006, July 2006. DOI: 10.1145/1143997.1144269

   23. Eva Alfaro-Cid, Ken Sharman, and Anna Esparcia-Alcázar. Evolving a learning machine by genetic programming. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006, July 2006. DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2006.1688316

   24. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Lidia Lluch-Revert, José Miguel Albarracín-Guillem, Marta E Palmer-Gato, and Ken Sharman. An evolutionary algorithm for the product to shelf allocation problem. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006, July 2006. DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2006.1688714 

   25. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Lidia Lluch-Revert, Manuel Cardós, Ken Sharman, and Carlos Andrés-Romano. A comparison of routing algorithms in a hybrid evolutionary tool for the inventory and transportation problem.  Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006 July 2006. DOI:  10.1109/CEC.2006.1688480

   26. Anna I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Lidia Lluch-Revert, Manuel Cardós, Ken Sharman, and Carlos Andrés-Romano. Design of a retail chain stocking up policy with a hybrid evolutionary algorithm. In J. Gottlieb and G.R. Raidl, editors, EvoCOP 2006, volume 3906 of LNCS, pages 49-60. Springer, April 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/11730095_5]

   27. Eva Alfaro-Cid, Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, and Ken Sharman. Using distributed genetic programming to evolve classifiers for a brain computer interface. In Proceedings of the 14 th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN'06, Bruges, Belgium, April 2006.

   28. A.I. Esparcia-Alcázar & K.C. Sharman, Phenotype Plasticity in Genetic Programming: A Comparison of Darwinian and Lamarckian Inheritance Schemes, Genetic Programming, Procs. of the Second European Workshop (EuroGP'99), pp. 49-64. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol LNCS 1598, Springer. (download PostScript, 634 KB) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48885-5_5  

   29. A.I. Esparcia-Alcázar & K.C. Sharman, Genetic Programming for Channel Equalisation, Procs. of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing (EvoIASP'99), pp. 126-137. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol LNCS 1596, Springer. (download PS, 487 KB) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/10704703_10

   30. A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar & K. C. Sharman, Learning schemes for Genetic Programming, Late Breaking Papers at the Genetic Programming 97 Conference, Stanford University, CA, USA (July 1997). pp 57-65. (download PS 728 KB)

   31. A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar & K. C. Sharman, Evolving Recurrent Neural Network Architectures by Genetic Programming. In: Koza, J. R., Deb, K., Dorigo, M., Fogel, D.B., Garzon, M., Iba, H., and Riolo, R. L. (editors). 1997. Genetic Programming 1997: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference, July 13-16, 1997, Stanford University.  San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 89-94. (download PS 371 KB)

   32. A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar & K. C. Sharman, Genetic Evolution of Recurrent Neural Network Architectures,  In Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks, pages 1059-1062, International Neural Network Society Annual Meeting, San Diego CA, USA, September 1996. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN # 0-8058-2608-4.

   33. A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar & K. C. Sharman, Genetic Programming Techniques that Evolve Recurrent Neural Network Architectures for Signal Processing , Neural Networks for Signal Processing VI - Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop. S. Usui, Y. Tohkura, S. Katagiri & E. Wilson, Editors. pp. 139 -148. (pdf)

   34. A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar & K. C. Sharman, Some Applications of Genetic Programming in Digital Signal Processing, Late Breaking Papers at the Genetic Programming 96 Conference, Stanford University, CA, USA (July 1996). pp. 24-31. (download PS 550 KB)

   35. K. C. Sharman , A. I. Esparcia-Alcazar & Y.Li, Evolving digital signal processing algorithms by genetic programming , Procs of the 1st Int. Conf. on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering systems - GALESIA, Univ. Sheffield, (Sept. 1995). pp. 473-480 ( pdf)

   36. K. C. Sharman & A. I. Esparcia-Alcazar, Genetic Evolution of Symbolic Signal Models, Proc. 2nd IEE/IEEE Int. Workshop on Natural Algorithms in Signal Processing, Univ. Essex, (Nov. 1993). vol. 2, paper 29, pp 1-11 (download PS 340 KB)

Peer-reviewed national conference papers

1. Ana Isabel Martínez García, Anna Isabel Esparcia Alcázar, Antonio Mora García, Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, Pablo García Sánchez. Evolución de FFSM para el control de bots en juegos FPS. In Actas del VII Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados, MAEB2010, Valencia, Spain, 7 - 10 September 2010. 

   1. Anna I. Esparcia Alcázar, Anaís Martínez García, J.J. Merelo, Pablo García Sánchez, Eva Alfaro Cid, Manuel Cardós, and Ken Sharman. Comparación de heurísticas de resolución del VRP y enfoques multi y monoobjetivo para el problema de transporte e inventario. In Actas del VI Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB'09), pages 131-138, Malaga, Spain, February 2009. ISBN: 978-84-691-66813-4.

   2. Eva Alfaro Cid, Anna I. Esparcia Alcázar, Pilar Moya Sanz, Beatriu Femenia Ferrer, Ken Sharman, and J.J. Merelo. Modelado de las cinéticas de emisión de difusores de feromona mediante programación genética. In Actas del VI Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB'09), pages 123-130, Malaga, Spain, February 2009. ISBN: 978-84-691-66813-4.

2.  José Miguel Albarracín Guillem, Marta E Palmer Gato, Anna I. Esparcia Alcázar, and Eugenia Babiloni Griñón. Modelización mediante programación matemática del problema de ubicación de productos en estanterías. In Actas del XXX Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa y IV Jornadas de Estadística Pública 2007, pages 213-225, Valladolid (España), September 2007. ISBN: 978-84-690-7249-3.

• 1. Eva Alfaro Cid, Alberto Cuesta Cañada, Ken Sharman, and Anna Esparcia Alcázar. Tipado fuerte y preselección de variables en el problema de la predicción de quiebra empresarial mediante programación genética. In Enrique Alba et al., editor, Actas de las Jornadas de Algoritmos Evolutivos y Metaheurísticas - II Congreso Español de Informática, CEDI'07, pages 33-40, Zaragoza, Spain, September 2007. Thomson. ISBN: 978-84-9732-614-8.

  2. Alberto Cuesta Cañada, Eva Alfaro Cid, Ken Sharman, and Anna Esparcia Alcázar. Análisis de la topología de una red newscast. In Ignacio Rojas and Héctor Pomares, editors, Actas del Simposio de Inteligencia Computacional - II Congreso Español de Informática, CEDI'07, pages 459-466, Zaragoza, Spain, September 2007.

3. Anna I. Esparcia Alcázar, Lidia Lluch Revert, Ken Sharman, José Miguel Albarracín Guillem, Marta E Palmer-Gato, and M Eugenia Babiloni Griñón. ELiSSA: Una herramienta evolutiva para ubicación de productos en estanterías. In Actas del V Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB'07), pages 687-694, Tenerife, Spain, Febrero 2007. ISBN: 978-84-690-3470-5.

4. Eva Alfaro Cid, Ken Sharman, and Anna I. Esparcia Alcázar. Predicción de quiebra empresarial usando programación genética. In Actas del V Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB'07), pages 703-710, Tenerife, Spain, Febrero 2007. ISBN: 978-84-690-3470-5.

5. Anna I. Esparcia Alcázar, Lidia Lluch Revert, Manuel Cardós, Ken Sharman, and Carlos Andrés-Romano. Configuración de una herramienta evolutiva para el problema de transporte e inventario. In Actas del V Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB'07), pages 1-8, Tenerife, Spain, Febrero 2007. ISBN: 978-84-690-3470-5.

6. Eva Alfaro Cid, Ken Sharman, Anna I. Esparcia Alcázar, and Alberto Cuesta Cañada. Aprendizaje automático con programación genética. In Actas del V Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB'07), pages 819-826, Tenerife, Spain, Febrero 2007. ISBN: 978-84-690-3470-5.

7. Alberto Cuesta Cañada, Ken Sharman, Anna I. Esparcia Alcázar, and Eva Alfaro Cid. Implementación de algoritmos distribuidos para un entorno de distribución epidémica. In Actas del V Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB'07), pages 159-166, Tenerife, Spain, Febrero 2007. ISBN: 978-84-690-3470-5.

8. Eva Alfaro-Cid, Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, and Ken Sharman. Clasificación de Señales de Electroencefalograma Usando Programación Genética. Actas del IV Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados MAEB'05, September 2005, Granada, Spain. (download pdf)

Articles

• 1. Vos, T.E.J. & Esparcia-Alcázar, A. Software Testing Innovation Alliance - the SHIP project. STAF Doctoral Symposium / Showcase. 2016

  2. Esparcia, Anna. I+D en la Pyme,  Economía 3, Octubre 2013

  3. Eva Alfaro Cid, Alberto Cuesta Cañada, Anna I. Esparcia Alcázar, Anna and Ken Sharman. NADEweb: Nuevos algoritmos distribuidos y evolutivos en la web. Actualidad TIC (ISSN: 1696-5876), (12):9-11, Mayo 2007.

  4. Ken Sharman and Anna Esparcia-Alcázar. Logística y algoritmos bio-inspirados. Publicación trimestral de la Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Logística, (35):10-12, Abril 2004.

  5. Ken Sharman and Anna Esparcia-Alcázar. Interfaz Cerebro-Computadora. Actualidad TIC, No. 3, pp 4-7, 2004 (download PDF, 347 KB)

Blog posts

1. De pepinos y máquinas asesinas, Security Artwork, June 8th 2011

2. Abril en París (o la Naturaleza al contraataque), Security Artwork, June 3rd 2011

3. De serpientes y reputación,  Security Artwork, 31st May 2011

4. Tsunami en la cadena logística,  Security Artwork, 17th March 2011

   1. El eslabón más débil, Security Artwork, February 23rd 2011

   2. Si no puedes vencerlos… haz que trabajen para ti, Security Artwork, 15th February 2011

PhD Thesis

A.I. Esparcia-Alcázar, Genetic Programming for Adaptive Digital Signal Processing, PhD thesis (1998) (pdf, zipped PS  502KB)

Technical reports

• 1. Anna I. Esparcia Alcázar, Anaís Martínez García, J.J. Merelo, Pablo García Sánchez, Eva Alfaro Cid, and Ken Sharman. Comparing single and multiobjective evolutionary approaches to the inventory and transportation problem. August 2009.  [http]

  2. A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar and K. C. Sharman, Application of genetic programming to signal processing problems. CSC Research Report CSC-96010, Centre for Systems and Control, University of Glasgow, 1996.

  3. A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar and K. C. Sharman, Evolving recurrent neural network architectures by genetic programming. CSC Research Report CSC-96009, Centre for Systems and Control, University of Glasgow, 1996

  4. K. C. Sharman, A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar, and Y. Li, Evolving digital signal processing algorithms by genetic programming. CSC Research Report CSC-95012, Centre for Systems and Control, University of Glasgow, 1995.

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