People
Sara Silva
Home Page
http://gplab.sourceforge.net/sara/Member
Evolutionary and Complex SystemsResearch interests
Evolutionary ComputationGenetic Programming
Artificial Life
Real World Applications
Affiliation
FCULCISUC
National Projects
BINDER - Improving Bio-inspired Deep Learning for Radiomics
GADgET - Online Gambling Addiction Detection
Past Projects
EnviGP - Improving Genetic Programming for the Environment and Other Applications
MaSSGP - Improving Semantic Genetic Programming for Maritime Safety, Security and Environmental Protection
Journal Articles
2014
(3 publications)- Castelli, M. and Sara Silva and Vanneschi, L. , "A C++ framework for geometric semantic genetic programming", Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2014 [ DOI ]
- Castelli, M. and Sara Silva and Manzoni, L. and Vanneschi, L. , "Geometric Selective Harmony Search", Information Sciences, 2014
- Vanneschi, L. and Castelli, M. and Sara Silva , "A survey of semantic methods in genetic programming", Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, vol. 15, pp. 195-214, 2014
2013
(1 publication)2012
(2 publications)- Sara Silva and Vanneschi, L. , "Bloat Free Genetic Programming: Application to Human Oral Bioavailability Prediction", International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, vol. 6, pp. 585-601, 2012
- Sara Silva and Dignum, S. and Vanneschi, L. , "Operator equalisation for bloat free genetic programming and a survey of bloat control methods", Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, vol. 13, pp. 197-238, 2012
2011
(1 publication)2009
(1 publication)Conference Articles
2017
(3 publications)- Vanneschi, L. and Castelli, M. and Ivo Gonçalves and Manzoni, L. and Sara Silva , "Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming for Biomedical Applications: A State of the Art Upgrade", in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2017 [ DOI ]
- Ivo Gonçalves and Sara Silva and Fonseca, C.M. and Castelli, M. , "Unsure When to Stop? Ask Your Semantic Neighbors", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017 [ DOI ]
- Vanneschi, L. and Castelli, M. and Manzoni, L. and Krawiec, K. and Moraglio, A. and Sara Silva and Ivo Gonçalves , "PSXO - Population-Wide Semantic Crossover", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017 [ DOI ]
2016
(2 publications)- Ivo Gonçalves and Sara Silva and Fonseca, C.M. and Castelli, M. , "Arbitrarily Close Alignments in the Error Space: A Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming Approach", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2016 [ DOI ]
- Castelli, M. and Manzoni, L. and Ivo Gonçalves and Vanneschi, L. and Trujillo, L. and Sara Silva , "An Analysis of Geometric Semantic Crossover: A Computational Geometry Approach", in International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications, 2016 [ DOI ]
2015
(3 publications)- Ivo Gonçalves and Sara Silva and Fonseca, C.M. , "On the Generalization Ability of Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming", in 18th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2015), 2015 [ DOI ]
- Ivo Gonçalves and Sara Silva and Fonseca, C.M. , "Semantic Learning Machine: A Feedforward Neural Network Construction Algorithm Inspired by Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming", in 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2015), 2015 [ DOI ]
- Munoz, L. and Sara Silva and Trujillo, L. , "M3GP - Multiclass Classification with GP", in EuroGP 2015, 2015
2014
(2 publications)- Ruberto, S. and Vanneschi, L. and Castelli, M. and Sara Silva , " ESAGP – A Semantic GP Framework Based on Alignment in the Error Space", in EuroGP-2014, 2014
- Ingalalli, V. and Sara Silva and Castelli, M. and Vanneschi, L. , "A Multi-dimensional Genetic Programming Approach for Multi-class Classification Problems", in EuroGP-2014, 2014
2013
(5 publications)- Ivo Gonçalves and Sara Silva , "Balancing Learning and Overfitting in Genetic Programming with Interleaved Sampling of Training Data", in 16th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2013), 2013 [ DOI ]
- Sara Silva and Ingalalli, V. and Vinga, S. and Carreiras, J.M.B. and Melo, J. and Castelli, M. and Vanneschi, L. and Ivo Gonçalves and Caldas, J. , "Prediction of Forest Aboveground Biomass: An Exercise on Avoiding Overfitting", in EvoApplications, 2013 [ DOI ]
- Vanneschi, L. and Castelli, M. and Manzoni, L. and Sara Silva , "A New Implementation of Geometric Semantic GP and its Application to Problems in Pharmacokinetics", in EuroGP-2013, 2013
- Castelli, M. and Sara Silva and Vanneschi, L. and Cabral, A. and Vasconcelos, M. and Catarino, L. and Carreiras, J.M.B. , "Land Cover/Land Use Multiclass Classification Using GP With Geometric Semantic Operators", in EvoApplications-2013, 2013
- Castelli, M. and Castaldi, D. and Giordani, I. and Sara Silva and Vanneschi, L. and Archetti, F. and Maccagnola, D. , "An Efficient Implementation of Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming for Anticoagulation Level Prediction in Pharmacogenetics", in EPIA 2013, 2013 [ DOI ]
2012
(1 publication)- Ivo Gonçalves and Sara Silva and Melo, J. and Carreiras, J.M.B. , "Random Sampling Technique for Overfitting Control in Genetic Programming", in 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2012), 2012 [ DOI ]
2011
(7 publications)- Ivo Gonçalves and Sara Silva , "Experiments on Controlling Overfitting in Genetic Programming", in Local proceedings of the 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2011), 2011
- Moraglio, A. and Sara Silva , "Geometric Nelder-Mead Algorithm on the Space of Genetic Programs", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011
- Sara Silva , "Handling Bloat in GP, 2nd edition", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Tutorials, 2011
- Sara Silva , "Reassembling Operator Equalisation - A Secret Revealed", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011
- Sara Silva and Anunciação, O. and Lotz, M. , "A Comparison of Machine Learning Methods for the Prediction of Breast Cancer", in European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Computational Biology, 2011
- Manzoni, L. and Castelli, M. and Sara Silva and Vanneschi, L. , "A Quantitative Study of Learning and Generalization in Genetic Programming", in European Conference on Genetic Programming, 2011
- Trujillo, L. and Sara Silva and Legrand, P. and Vanneschi, L. , "An empirical study of functional complexity as an indicator of overfitting in Genetic Programming", in European Conference on Genetic Programming, 2011
2010
(6 publications)- Moraglio, A. and Sara Silva , "Geometric Differential Evolution on the Space of Genetic Programs", in 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP-2010), 2010
- Sara Silva and Vanneschi, L. , "State-of-the-art Genetic Programming for Predicting Human Oral Bioavailability of Drugs", in 4th International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (IWPACBB), 2010
- Sara Silva and Vasconcelos, M. and Melo, J. , "Bloat Free Genetic Programming versus Classification Trees for Identification of Burned Areas in Satelitte Imagery", in EvoApplications 2010 (EvoIASP-2010), 2010
- Lotz, M. and Sara Silva , "Application of Genetic Programming Classification in an Industrial Process Resulting in Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions", in EvoApplications 2010 (EvoEnvironment-2010), 2010
- Vanneschi, L. and Castelli, M. and Sara Silva , "Measuring Bloat, Overfitting and Functional Complexity in Genetic Programming", in 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2010), 2010
- Castelli, M. and Manzoni, L. and Sara Silva and Vanneschi, L. , "A Comparison of the Generalization Ability of Different Genetic Programming Frameworks", in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2010, 2010
2009
(3 publications)- Sara Silva and Dignum, S. , "Extending Operator Equalisation: Fitness Based Self Adaptive Length Distribution for Bloat Free GP", in 12th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP-2009), 2009
- Sara Silva and Vanneschi, L. , "Operator Equalisation, Bloat and Overfitting - A Study on Human Oral Bioavailability Prediction", in 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), 2009
- Vanneschi, L. and Sara Silva , "Using Operator Equalisation for Prediction of Drug Toxicity with Genetic Programming", in Fourteenth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA-2009), Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA) track, 2009
2008
(1 publication)2006
(1 publication)2005
(6 publications)- Sara Silva and Costa, E. , "Resource-Limited Genetic Programming: The Dynamic Approach", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), 2005
- Sara Silva and Silva, P. and Silva, P. and Costa, E. , "Resource-Limited Genetic Programming: Replacing Tree Depth Limits", in 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA05), 2005
- Sara Silva and Costa, E. , "Comparing Tree Depth Limits and Resource-Limited GP", in 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2005
- Sara Silva and Fayolle, P. and Vincent, J. and Pauron, G. and Rosenberger, C. and Toinard, C. , "Evolutionary Computation Approaches for Shape Modelling and Fitting", in Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA-2005), 2005
- Sara Silva and Tseng, Y. , "Classification of Seafloor Habitats using Genetic Programming", in Late Breaking Papers at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), 2005
- Tseng, Y. and Gavrilov, A. and Duncan, A. and Harwerth, M. and Sara Silva , "Implementation of genetic programming toward the improvement of acoustic classification performance for different seafloor habitats", in IEEE Oceans\'05 Europe, 2005
2004
(1 publication)2003
(2 publications)- Sara Silva and Almeida, J. , "Dynamic Maximum Tree Depth - A Simple Technique for Avoiding Bloat in Tree-Based GP", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003), 2003
- Sara Silva and Almeida, J. , "GPLAB - A Genetic Programming Toolbox for MATLAB", in Nordic MATLAB Conference (NMC-2003), 2003
Edited Books
2013
(1 publication)- Esparcia-Alcazar, A. and Sim, K. and Sara Silva and al., e. , Proceedings of the EvoApplications 2013 , vol. 7835, 2013 [ DOI ]
2012
(2 publications)- Chio, C.D. and Agapitos, A. and , S.C. and Cotta, C. and Vega, F.F.d. and Caro, G.A.D. and Drechsler, R. and Esparcia-Alcazar, A. and Farooq, M. and Langdon, W. and Preuss, M. and Richter, H. and Sara Silva and Simões, A. and Squillero, G. and Tarantino, E. and Tettamanzi, A. and Togelius, J. and Urquhart, N. and Uyar, A.S. and Yannakakis, G.N. , "Applications of Evolutionary Computation: EvoApplications 2012", vol. 7248, 2012
- Moraglio, A. and Sara Silva and Krawiec, K. and Penousal Machado and Cotta, C. , "Genetic Programming - 15th European Conference, EuroGP 2012, Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012. Proceedings", vol. 7244, 2012
2011
(1 publication)2010
(1 publication)Book Chapters
2014
(1 publication)2011
(1 publication)PhD Theses
2008
(1 publication)Tech Report
2010
(3 publications)- Sara Silva and Dignum, S. and Vanneschi, L. , "Bloat: Past, Present, Future", 2010
- Sara Silva , "Handling Bloat in GP", 2010
- Sara Silva , "Genetic Programming", 2010