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class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> <p class=MsoNormal>Office 121,</p> <p class=MsoNormal>James Parsons Building</p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ENG/Researchgroups/MORG/index.htm">Liverpool Logistics Offshore and Marine Research Institute (LOOM)</a>, </p> <p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ENG/index.htm"><span style='mso-field-code:"HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.ljmu\.ac\.uk\/ENG\/index\.htm\0022"'>School of Engineering, Technology and Maritime Operations</span></a><br> <a href="http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/"><span style='mso-field-code:"HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.ljmu\.ac\.uk\/\0022"'>Liverpool John Moores University</span></a> <br> Byrom Street, </p> <p class=MsoNormal>Liverpool </p> <p class=MsoNormal>L3 3AF, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <br> Phone: +44 151 231 2028 <br> Email: <a href="mailto:T.T.Nguyen@ljmu.ac.uk">T.T.Nguyen@ljmu.ac.uk</a> </p> <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;</p> <p class=MsoNormal>I am a postdoctoral researcher in LOOM, the <a href="http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ENG/index.htm">School of Engineering, Technology and Maritime Operations</a>, <a href="http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/">Liverpool John Moores University</a>. I am working on the EU project <a href="http://www.intrade-nwe.eu/">InTraDE</a> under the supervision of Dr. <a href="http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ENG/Researchgroups/MORG/89578.htm">Zaili Yang</a> and Prof. <a href="http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ENG/Researchgroups/MORG/80866.htm">Jin Wang</a>. I am also an associate member of the <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/">School of Computer <span class=GramE>Science </span></a>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><a href="http://www.bham.ac.uk/">The University of Birmingham</a>, working with <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin"><span class=SpellE>Prof.</span> <span class=SpellE>Xin</span> Yao</a>. </p> <p><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Before coming to Liverpool, I was a research fellow in <a href="http://www.cercia.ac.uk/">CERCIA</a>, the </span><a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/">School of Computer <span class=GramE>Science </span></a>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><a href="http://www.bham.ac.uk/">The University of Birmingham</a>, <span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>working on the <a href="http://www.cercia.ac.uk/projects/research/EADOP/">EADOP</a> project. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I completed my PhD study in January 2011 in the </span>School of Computer Science under the supervision of <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin">Prof. Xin Yao</a>. Two other members of my thesis group were <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jer/">Dr. Jon Rowe</a> and <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axk/">Dr. Ata Kaban</a>. I was funded by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Computer Science</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and the <a href="http://www.orsas.ac.uk/">ORS award scheme</a><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></p> <p>Under the supervision of <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin">Prof. Xin Yao</a>, I also received my M.Phil (research) in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Computer Science</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> in 2007. My M.Phil study was funded by the Vietnamese Overseas Scholarship Program and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Computer Science</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000099'>Recent Research Interests</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>Applications of evolutionary computation and other meta-heuristics to marine engineering and technology</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Continuous dynamic (online) optimization using evolutionary algorithms</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Performance of dynamic optimization methods in dynamic constrained problems<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Characteristics of real-world dynamic optimization problems</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Applying evolutionary algorithms and other nature-inspired methods to solving real-world problems</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Multi-objective optimization</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Dynamic constraint optimization and dynamic constrained benchmarks<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Dynamic time-linkage optimization and dynamic time-linkage benchmarks&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Measuring dynamic optimization problems<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Unconstrained global optimization using hybrid meta-heuristics</span></p> <p>Currently I am interested in surveying the characteristics of real-world dynamic optimization problems. The survey results (to be uploaded soon) reveal that such properties as constraints, dynamic constraints, time-linkage and switched-mode are common characteristics of dynamic real-world problems. However these characteristics have not been received much attention from the EA community and consequently not many techniques have been proposed to deal with them. My recent experiments (<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen_Yao_DCOP.pdf">here</a>, <a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen_Yao_CEC09.pdf">here</a> and <a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen_Yao_EvoSTOC09.pdf">here</a>) show that many of the current available dynamic optimization methods could not work well in solving problems with these real-world characteristics. I am now trying to investigate how the newly identified characteristics of real-world problems affects the performance of existing dynamic optimization methods and what can we do to improve existing techniques to solve dynamic real-world problems better.&nbsp; </p> <p>I am also interested in the application of multi-objective optimization techniques to solving dynamic optimization problems online. My survey of real-world dynamic optimization problems shows that in many problems, the optimization goal is not only to find a solution with highest quality but also to find a solution that satisfies a number of requirements. Many problems also have multiple optimization goals. I am interested in studying how to effectively transform these problems into multi-objective optimization problems and how to solve them effectively using multi-objective optimization techniques.<span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000099'>Previous Research Interests</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Finite state machine design semantics <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Voice Over Internet Protocols (VoIP)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Computer-Telephony Integrated and other multimedia communication services. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000099'>Selected journal publications</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>T. T. Nguyen, S. Yang and J. Branke (2012). Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization: A Survey of the State of the Art, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Swarm and Evolutionary Computation</i> (given the option to revise for acceptance, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>revision submitted</i>)[<i><a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen_SECO12.pdf">pdf</a></i>]. </p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>S. Yang, Y. Jiang and T.T. Nguyen (2012). Metaheuristics for Dynamic Combinatorial Optimization Problems, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>IMA Journal of Management Mathematics</i> (given the option to revise for acceptance, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>revision submitted</i>). </p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>T. T. Nguyen and X. Yao (2011). Continuous Dynamic Constrained Optimisation  The Challenges, <i><a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin/ieee_tec.html">IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></i><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(<i>accepted, </i></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>SCI impact factor: 4.589, ranked 2nd /103 in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and 4th/426 in all Computer Science journals</span><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>) [<i><a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen_Yao_DCOP.pdf">pdf</a></i>]</span>.</p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>C. Li and S. Yang and T. T. Nguyen (2011). A Self-Learning Particle Swarm Optimizer for Global Optimization Problems, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics</i>,<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Part B: Cybernetics</i> (<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>accepted</i>, SCI impact factor: 3.007, ranked 11th/103 in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence)</p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>T. T. Nguyen and X. Yao (2010). Solving Dynamic Constrained Optimisation Problems Using Stochastic Ranking and Repair Methods, <i><a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin/ieee_tec.html">IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation</a></i><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>(given the option of revise for acceptance) <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>) [<i><a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen_Yao_dRepairGA.pdf">pdf</a></i>]</span> </p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>T. T. Nguyen and <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>X. Yao (2008)</span>.  An Experimental Study of Hybridizing Cultural Algorithms and Local Search , <a href="http://www.worldscinet.com/ijns/ijns.shtml"><em>International Journal of Neural Systems</em></a>, 18(1), 1-17.<span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (latest SCI impact factor: 4.237, ranked 6<sup>th</sup> /108 in the category of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence) </span><span style='mso-bidi-font-style: italic'>) [<i><a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/CA-ILS-IJNS.pdf">pdf</a></i>]</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000099'>Selected conference-proceeding publications</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>T.T. Nguyen, Z. Yang &amp; S. <span class=SpellE>Bonsall</span> (2011). Dynamic Time-linkage Problems - the Challenges, <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> 9th IEEE  RIVF conference on Computing and Communication Technologies</i>. (<span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>accepted</i></span>, acceptance rate for long paper: 24.8%)[<i><a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen_RIVF12.pdf">pdf</a></i>]. </p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>T. T. Nguyen and X. Yao (2009). Benchmarking and Solving Dynamic Constrained Problems, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4982922&amp;isYear=2009">Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC2009</a></i>, Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May 2009, IEEE Press, pp.690-697 [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen_Yao_CEC09.pdf">pdf</a>] [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen.bib">bib</a>]<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>H. K. Singh, A. Isaacs, T. T. Nguyen, T. Ray &amp; X. Yao (2009). Performance of Infeasibility Driven Evolutionary Algorithm (IDEA) on Constrained Dynamic Single Objective Optimization Problems, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4982922&amp;isYear=2009">Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC2009</a>, </i>Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May 2009, IEEE Press, pp.3127-3134&nbsp; [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Singh_etal_CEC09.pdf">pdf</a>] [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen.bib">bib</a>] </p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>T. T. Nguyen and X. Yao (2009).  Dynamic Time-linkage Problems Revisited . In M. Giacobini et al (Eds.), <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proceedings of the 2009 European Workshops on Applications of Evolutionary Computation</i>, <a href="http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoWorkshops.html">EvoWorkshops 2009</a>, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5484, Springer, pp.735-744. [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen_Yao_EvoSTOC09.pdf">pdf</a>] [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen.bib">bib</a>] <span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>(<span class=GramE>acceptance</span> rate: ~ 47.55%). <i><u>Note</u></i>: This paper has been <i>revised</i>. Please see the revision note <a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/evostoc_revision_note.htm">here</a>.</span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>T. T. Nguyen and <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>X. Yao</span> (2006).  <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/x30v235v77150482/">Hybridizing Cultural Algorithms and Local Search</a>'' In E. Corchado, H. Yin, V. Botti and C. Fyfe (eds.), <em>Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (<a href="http://www2.ubu.es/ideal2006/"><span style='font-style:normal'>IDEAL 2006</span></a>)</em>, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4224, Springer, pp.586-594, Burgos, Spain.<span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>[<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen_Yao_IDEAL_06v6.pdf">pdf</a>] [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Nguyen.bib">bib</a>] (acceptance rate: 30.5%. Selected for journal publication)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>T. T. Nguyen (2005).  A Novel Implementation for UML Statemachine and Some Issues <span class=GramE>To</span> Improve State Machine Semantics . In Bui, M., Bellot, P. <span class=GramE>and<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Duong</span>, V. (eds.) <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proceedings of<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>the International Conference on Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future in Computing &amp; Communications Technologies <a href="http://www.rivf.org/">RIVF</a></i>. pp 217  224. [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/RIVF05.pdf">pdf</a>] (<span class=GramE>acceptance</span> rate: ~ 50%)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>T. T. Nguyen (2005).  New Approaches to Designing and Developing Real-time Telecommunication Applications. In <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proceedings of the Eighth Information Technology Seminar PTIT  ETRI</i>. pp 153  159, Daejon, Korea. [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Real-time_TeleApp.pdf">pdf</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>T. T. Nguyen, V.D. Dinh, Q.T. Thai, V.Q. Bien, H.L. Nguyen, V.A. Nguyen. (2005). VIP-PBX  An IP-PBX System for Enterprises. In <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proceedings of the 32<sup>nd</sup> Asia Info-Communications Council Conference</i>. Doc. 35. </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>[<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/VIP-PBX_slides.pdf">slides</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>T. T. Tran, T.T Nguyen and Nguyen, H. L<span class=GramE>.(</span>2004). Global optimization using Levy flights. In <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proceedings of <span class=GramE>The</span> Second National Symposium on Research, Development and Application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT. rda 2004)</i>, Hanoi, Vietnam. [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/LevyFlight.pdf">pdf</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>T. T. Nguyen, T.T. Do, M. D. Nguyen, V.D. Dinh, Q.T. Thai and V.Q. Bien (2003). A new solution to d</span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>evelop the VoIP Gateway and Gatekeeper systems.</span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language: EN-US'> In <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proceedings <span class=GramE>of<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The</span></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> First National Symposium on Research, Development and Application of Information and Communication Technology </span></i><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>(ICT. rda 2003), Hanoi, Vietnam.</span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>T. T. Nguyen, T. T. Do, and Nguyen, M.D. (2002). VIPTech- A new Voice over Internet Protocols Solution. <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>In <i>Proceedings of the Fifth </i></span></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:Gulim'>Information Technology Seminar PTIT  ETRI, </span></i><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:Gulim'>Daejon, Korea<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>. </i></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>[<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/VIPTech_VoIP_solution.pdf">pdf</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:53.85pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>T. T. Nguyen</span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>, S. Q. Dinh, V. D. Dinh. (2001). </span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Analysis and Design for Embedded RealTime Telecommunications Software. <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>In <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proceedings of the 26<sup>th</sup> Asia Info-Communications Council Conference</i></span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>. [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/Embedded_Real-Time.pdf">pdf</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>A full list of publications can be found in my <a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/others/ThanhNT_ExtendedCV.pdf">CV</a> (not updated yet).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<b><span style='color:#000099'>Technical Reports</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Dynamic optimization benchmarks  technical reports<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>Li C., Yang S., Nguyen T.T., Yu E.L., Yao X., Jin Y., Beyer H.-G. &amp; Suganthan P.N. (2009). Benchmark Generator for CEC 2009 Competition on Dynamic Optimization, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Technical report</i>, University of Leicester and University of Birmingham, UK. [<a href="http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/syang/ECiDUE/DBG.tar.gz">download</a>] <span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>Nguyen T. T. (2009) A benchmark for dynamic time-linkage problems, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Technical Report</i>, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham [pdf].<span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]>Nguyen T.T. (2008) <span class=GramE>A</span> proposed real-valued dynamic constrained benchmark set. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Technical Report</i>, School of Computer Science, Univesity of Birmingham. [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/DCOP_benchmark.pdf">pdf</a>]<span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>My Ph.D progress reports <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo10'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/reports/report2_Thanh.pdf">Report 2<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>(pdf)</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo10'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/reports/Report_3_v2_Thanh3.pdf">Report 3 (thesis proposal) (pdf)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>My M.Phil progress reports <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo12'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/reports/Report_2_MPhil_Thanh.pdf">Report 2 (thesis proposal) (pdf)</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>My M.Phil thesis <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo12'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> </span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Incorporating cultural adaptation and local search into meta-heuristics continuous optimisation</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/theses/mphil_thesis_thanh.pdf">pdf</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>My PhD thesis <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo12'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> </span><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Continuous Dynamic Optimisation Using Evolutionary Algorithms</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/theses/phd_thesis_nguyen.pdf">pdf</a>]</span><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Other talks and technical reports</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo14;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; 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color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>IDEAL 2006 [<a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/Papers/CA-ILS-talk-IDEAL06.pdf"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>pdf</span></a>]<span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo14;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Talks in Natural Computation Group regular discussions (to be updated)<span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration: none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l8 level2 lfo14;tab-stops:list 72.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Learning from an existing knowledge database in evolutionary optimisation (proposal) [<u><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/reports/Learning_from_existing_KDB_in_opt.pdf">pdf</a></span></u>]<span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l8 level2 lfo14;tab-stops:list 72.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Incorporating cultural algorithms and local search into evolutionary optimisation [<u><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/enrtngu1/reports/CA-ILSv2.pdf">pdf</a></span></u>]</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; 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Demonstrating</span></b><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo16;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></span><![endif]><u><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:blue'><a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/internal/courses/sys-prog/2006/">Systems Programming in C/C++</a></span></u><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (semester 2, 2006/2007)<span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo16;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></span><![endif]><u><span lang=EN style='color:blue; mso-ansi-language:EN'><a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/resources/courses/java/msc/">MSc Software Workshop</a></span></u><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>(semester 1, 2007/2008) <span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo16;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/resources/courses/java/msc/"><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:Batang;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-field-code:"HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.cs\.bham\.ac\.uk\/resources\/courses\/java\/msc\/\0022"'>MSc Software Workshop</span></span></a> (semester 2, 2007/2008) <span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none; 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</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>BSc Computer Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi  First Class Honour. <span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo18;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>MPhil (research) Computer Science, The University of Birmingham.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo18;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>PhD Computer Science, <span class=GramE>The</span> University of Birmingham.&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:18.0pt'>&nbsp;<span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000099'>Others</span></b><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>One of my other interests is photography. <u><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/classicalmania">Here</a></span></u> is a small collection of my recent photos: <u><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/classicalmania">http://www.flickr.com/photos/classicalmania</a></span></u> .<span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=MsoHyperlink><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal>Last update: 18 November 2011</p> </div> </body> </html>