Griffith University

BEng (Computer Engineering), PhD (Computer Science)

Contact details for Dr Andrew Lewis

Research expertise

• Parallel optimisation algorithms for large numerical simulations, including gradient descent, direct search methods, evolutionary programming and particle swarm methods.
• Multi-objective optimisation techniques for engineering design.
• Parallel, distributed and grid computing techniques.

Publications

1. Weis, G., Lewis, A., Randall, M., Galehdar, A. and Thiel, D., "Local Search for Ant Colony System to Improve the Efficiency of Small Meander Line Rfid Antennas", Accepted for publication, 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2008), Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, (2008).
2. Mostaghim, S., Branke, J., Lewis, A. and Schmeck, H., "Parallel Multi-objective Optimization Using Master-slave Model on Heterogeneous Resources", Accepted for publication, 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2008), Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, (2008).
3. Lewis, A. and Ireland, D., "Automated Solution Selection in Multi-objective Optimisation", Accepted for publication, 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2008), Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, (2008).
4. Scriven, I., Ireland, D., Lewis, A., Mostaghim, S. and Branke, J., "Asynchronous Multiple Objective Particle Swarm Optimisation in Unreliable Distributed Environments", Accepted for publication, 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2008), Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, (2008).
5. Scriven, I., Lewis, A., Ireland, D. and Lu, J., "Decentralised Distributed Multiple Objective Particle Swarm Optimisation Using Peer to Peer Networks", Accepted for publication, 2008 nstitute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2008), Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, (2008).
6. Scriven, I., Lewis, A., Smith, M. and Friese, T., "Resource Evaluation and Node Monitoring in Service Oriented Ad-hoc Grids", To appear, AusGrid08, Wollongong, Australia, January 22-25, (2008).
7. Lewis, A., Mostaghim, S. and Randall, M., "Evolutionary Population Dynamics and Multi-Objective Optimisation Problems", To appear in "Multi-Objective Optimization In Computational Intelligence: Theory And Practice", IGI Global, Hershey, Pensylvannia, USA.
8. Randall, M., Lewis, A., Galehdar, A. and Thiel, D., "Using Ant Colony Optimisation to Improve the Efficiency of Small Meander Line RFID Antennas", Third Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 345-351, Bangalore, India, Dec 10-13, (2007).
9. He, C., Lewis, A. and Jo, J., "A Novel Human Computer Interaction Paradigm for Volume Visualization in Projection-Based Virtual Environments", Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, 49-60, Kyoto, Japan, June 25-27, (2007).
10. Randall, M. and Lewis, A., "An Extended Extremal Optimisation Model for Parallel Architectures", Proceedings of the 2nd Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers International Conference on eScience and Grid Computing, (Workshop on Biologically-inspired Optimisation Methods for Parallel and Distributed Architectures: Algorithms, Systems and Applications), Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 4-6, (2006).