In the public goods game, players can be classified into different types according to their participation in the game. It is an important issue for economists to be able to measure players' strategy changes over time which can be considered as concept drift. In this study, we present a method...

In computing the similarity of intervals, current similarity measures such as the commonly used Jaccard and Dice measures are at times not sensitive to changes in the width of intervals, producing equal similarities for substantially different pairs of intervals. To address this, we propose a...

This thesis investigates the use of problem-specific knowledge to enhance a genetic algorithm approach to multiple-choice optimisation problems. It shows that such information can significantly enhance performance, but that the choice of information and the way it is included are important...