RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
2021
Lloyd, H., Crossley, M., Sinclair, M. & Amos, M., J-POP: Japanese Puzzles as Optimization Problems, IEEE Transactions on Games, v14 n3, September 2022, doi: 10.1109/TG.2021.3081817.
2013
Bragg, Y, Yimyam, P., Sinclair, M.C. & Clark A.F., Learning to Classify Galaxy Zoo Imagery, BMVA Symposium on Quantitative Image Analysis for Astronomical Applications, October 2013.
2007
Sum, S. & Sinclair, M.C., Classification Rule Mining for Automatic Credit Approval using Genetic Programming, Proc. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'07), Singapore, September 2007.
2000
Pagonis, J. & Sinclair, M.C., Evolving User Profiles to Reduce Internet Information Overload, Proc. Intl. Conf. on Recent Advances in Soft Computing 2000, Leicester, UK, June 2000.
Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Dimensioning All-optical Dual-homing Hierarchical Multi-ring Networks with Various Connectivities, Proc. Second Intl Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks(DRCN2000), Munich, Germany, April 2000.
Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Design and Dimensioning of Dual-homing Hierarchical Multi-ring Networks, IEE Proceedings Communications v147 n2 April 2000 pp.96-104.
Sinclair, M.C., Node-Pair Encoding Genetic Programming for Optical Mesh Network Topology Design in Corne, D.W., Oates, M.J. & Smith, G.D. (Ed.), Telecommunications Optimization: Heuristic and Adaptive Techniques, Wiley, 2000, Ch.6, pp.99-114.
1999
Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Impact of Topology on Wavelength and Switch-port Requirements in All optical Hierarchical Multi-ring Networks, Proc. IEEE Global Telecom. Conf. (GLOBECOM'99), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 1999, pp.1035-1041.
Pagonis, J. & Sinclair, M.C., Evolving Personal Agent Environments to Reduce Internet Information Overload: Initial Considerations, Proc. IEE Colloquium on Lost in the Web: Navigation on the Internet, Digest No. 1999/169, London, UK, November 1999, pp.2/1-2/10.
Shami, S.H. & Sinclair, M.C., Co-evolutionary Agents for Telecommunication Network Restoration, Proc. Recent Advances in Soft Computing'99, Leicester, UK, July 1999, pp.146-151.
Navarro Varela, G. & Sinclair, M.C., Ant Colony Optimisation for Virtual-Wavelength-Path Routing and Wavelength Allocation, Proc. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), Washington DC, USA, July 1999, pp.1809-1816.
Moore, S.J. & Sinclair, M.C., Design of Routing Tables for a Survivable Military Communications Network using Genetic Algorithms, Proc. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), Washington DC, USA, July 1999, pp.1788-1795.
Sinclair, M.C., Corne, D. & Smith, G.D., Evolutionary Telecommunications: Past, Present and Future, Proc. GECCO'99 Workshop on Evolutionary Telecommunications: Past, Present and Future, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 1999, p.208.
Sinclair, M.C., Evolutionary Telecommunications: A Summary, Proc. GECCO'99 Workshop on Evolutionary Telecommunications: Past, Present and Future, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 1999, pp.209-212.
Sinclair, M.C. & Clark, A.F., Evolving an Artificial Vision System: Initial Considerations, Proc. GECCO'99 Workshop on Evolution of Sensors in Nature, Hardware and Simulation, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 1999, pp.191-195.
Sinclair, M.C., Optical Mesh Topology Design using Node-Pair Encoding Genetic Programming, Proc. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99), Orlando, Florida, USA, July 1999, pp.1192-1197.
Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Interconnection Strategies for Dual-homing Multi-ring Networks, Proc. 16th International Teletraffic Conference (ITC-16), Edinburgh, UK, June 1999, pp.169-181.
Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Wavelength Routing in All-optical Dual-homing Hierarchical Multi-ring Networks, Proc. European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - Core Networks and Network Management (NOC'99), Delft, The Netherlands, June 1999, pp.52-59.
Sinclair, M.C., Minimum Cost Wavelength-path Routing and Wavelength Allocation Using a Genetic-algorithm/Heuristic Hybrid Approach, IEE Proceedings Communications v146 n1 February 1999 pp.1-7.
1998
Sinclair, M.C., NOMaD: An Optical Network Optimisation, Modelling and Design Toolset, Proc. IEE Colloquium on Multiwavelength Optical Networks: Devices, Systems and Network Implementations, Digest No. 1998/296, London, UK, June 1998, pp.6/1-6/6.
Sinclair, M.C., Operator-probability Adaptation in a Genetic-algorithm/Heuristic Hybrid for Optical Network Wavelength Allocation, Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'98), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 1998, pp.840-845.
Sinclair, M.C., Minimum Cost Routing and Wavelength Allocation Using a Genetic-algorithm/Heuristic Hybrid Approach, Proc. Sixth IEE Conf. on Telecommunications, Edinburgh, UK, March/April 1998, pp.67-71.
Sinclair, M.C., Minimum Network Wavelength Requirement Design Using a Genetic-algorithm/Heuristic Hybrid, Electronics Letters v34 n4 February 1998 pp.388-389.
1997
Aiyarak, P., Saket, A.S. & Sinclair, M.C., Genetic Programming Approaches for Minimum Cost Topology Optimisation of Optical Telecommunication Networks, Proc. IEE/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications (GALESIA'97), Glasgow, September 1997, pp.415-420.
Sinclair, M.C. & Shami, S.H., Evolving Simple Software Agents: Comparing Genetic Algorithm and Genetic Programming Performance, Proc. IEE/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications (GALESIA'97), Glasgow, September 1997, pp.421-426.
Shami, S.H., Kirkwood, I.M.A., & Sinclair, M.C., Evolving Simple Fault-tolerant Routing Rules using Genetic Programming, Electronics Letters v33 n17 August 1997 pp.1440-1441.
Segkhoonthod, S. & Sinclair, M.C., Design of Fault-tolerant ATM Switch Based on Parallel Architecture, Electronics Letters v33 n15 July 1997 pp.1289-1290.
Stevens, R.D. & Sinclair, M.C., Finite-source Analysis of Traffic on Private Mobile Radio Systems, Electronics Letters v33 n15 July 1997 pp.1292-1293.
Jackson, E., Spindley, R., Sinclair, M.C. & Reader, S., SS7 Network Management using Link Monitors, Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Commun. (ICC'97), Montreal, Canada, June 1997, pp.883-888.
Kirkwood, I.M.A., Shami, S.H. & Sinclair, M.C., Discovering Simple Fault-tolerant Routing Rules using Genetic Programming Proc. Intl. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'97), Norwich, UK, April 1997, pp.285-288.
Sinclair, M.C., NOMaD: Applying a Genetic-algorithm/Heuristic Hybrid Approach to Optical Network Topology Design Proc. Intl. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'97), Norwich, UK, April 1997, pp.299-303.
Ghanbari, M., Hughes, C.J., Sinclair, M.C. & Eade, J.P., Principles of Performance Engineering for Telecommunication and Information Systems IEE, 1997.
1996
Griffith, P.S., Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Heuristic Topological Design of Low-cost Optical Telecommunication Networks, Proc. 12th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Edinburgh, September 1996, pp.129-140.
Parnis, N., Jones, E.V., Sinclair, M.C. & O'Mahony, M.J., Hierarchical Network Design for ACTS OPEN: Initial Considerations, Proc. 12th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Edinburgh, September 1996, pp.141-155.
Sinclair, M.C., NOMaD: Initial Architecture of an Optical Network Optimisation, Modelling and Design Tool, Proc. 12th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Edinburgh, September 1996, pp.157-167.
Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Initial Survey of Heuristics for Optical Core Network Design in ACTS WOTAN, Proc. 13th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Glasgow, March 1996, pp.20/1-20/8.
1995
Robson, S.R. & Sinclair, M.C., Reduction of Channel Idle Time in a Trunked Mobile Radio Network, Proc. 11th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Liverpool, September 1995, pp.355-369.
Brander, A.W. & Sinclair, M.C., A Comparative Study of k-Shortest Path Algorithms, Proc. 11th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Liverpool, September 1995, pp.370-379.
Tan, L.G. & Sinclair, M.C., Wavelength Assignment between the Central Nodes of the COST 239 European Optical Network, Proc. 11th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Liverpool, September 1995, pp.235-247.
Segkhoonthod, S. & Sinclair, M.C., Performance Analysis of a Fault-tolerant ATM Switch in Single-fault Conditions, Proc. 11th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Liverpool, September 1995, pp.48-63.
Segkhoonthod, S. & Sinclair, M.C., Re-routing Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant ATM Switch Based on a Parallel Architecture, Proc. 3rd Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, Ilkley, July 1995, pp.73/1-73/12.
Sinclair, M.C., Minimum Cost Topology Optimisation of the COST 239 European Optical Network Proc. Intl. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Ales, France, April 1995, pp.26-29.
Robson, S.R. & Sinclair, M.C., An Improved Channel Resource Queueing Algorithm for Trunked Mobile Radio, Proc. 12th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Old Windsor, March 1995, pp.17/1-17/10.
Segkhoonthod, S. & Sinclair, M.C., Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant ATM Switch Based on a Parallel Architecture, Proc. 12th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Old Windsor, March 1995, pp.22/1-22/9.
1994
Chng, R.S.K., Botham, C.P., Johnson, D., Brown, G.N., Sinclair, M.C., O'Mahony, M.J., & Hawker, I., A Multi-layer Restoration Strategy for Reconfigurable Networks, Proc. IEEE Global Telecom. Conf. (GLOBECOM'94), San Francisco, USA, November 1994, pp.1872-1878.
Sinclair, M.C., Improved Model for European International Telephony Traffic, Electronics Letters v30 n18 September 1994 pp.1468-1470.
Stevens, R.D., Sinclair, M.C. & Dilworth, I.J., Finite Source Analysis and Simulation of Private Mobile Radio Systems, Proc. 10th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Edinburgh, September 1994, pp.39-45.
Stevens, R., Dilworth, I. & Sinclair, M., Fading and its Effects on Private Mobile Radio Systems, Philips Telecom Review v52 n2 August 1994 pp.24-27.
Stevens, R.D., Dilworth, I.J. & Sinclair, M.C., Fading and its Effects on the Planning of Private Mobile Radio Systems Proc. 11th National Radio Science Colloquium, Liverpool, July 1994.
Johnson, D., Brown, G.N., Beggs, S.L., Botham, C.P., Hawker, I., Chng, R.S.K., Sinclair, M.C. & O'Mahony, M.J., Distributed Restoration Strategies in Telecommunications Networks, Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Commun., New Orleans, USA, May 1994, pp.483-488
Stevens, R.D., Sinclair, M.C. & Dilworth, I.J., Finite Source Modelling of Private Mobile Radio Systems, Proc. 11th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Cambridge, March 1994, pp.12B/1-12B/7.
1993
Chng, R.S.K., Sinclair, M.C., Botham, C.P. & O'Mahony, M.J., Multi-layer Real-time Restoration for Survivable Networks, Proc. IEE Colloquium on Safety Critical Distributed Systems, Digest No. 1993/189, London, UK, October 1993, pp.8/1-8/5.
Sinclair, M.C. & O'Mahony, M.J., COST239: Initial Network Design and Analysis, Proc. 36th RACE Concertation, Brussels, July 93, pp.89-94.
Chng, R.S.K., Sinclair, M.C., Donachie, S.J. & O'Mahony, M.J., Distributed Restoration Algorithm for Multiple Failures in a Reconfigurable Network, Proc. 5th Bangor Symposium on Communications, University of Wales - Bangor, June 1993, pp.203-206.
Sinclair, M.C., The Application of a Genetic Algorithm to Trunk Network Routing Table Optimisation, Proc. 10th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Martlesham Heath, April 1993, pp.2/1-2/6.
O'Mahony, M., Sinclair, M.C. & Mikac, B., Ultra-High Capacity Optical Transmission Network: European Research Project COST 239, Information, Telecommunications, Automata Journal v12 n1-3 1993 pp.33-45.
1992
Sinclair, M.C., Single-Moment Analysis of Unreliable Trunk Networks Employing K-Shortest-Path Routing, Proc. IEE Colloquium on Resilience in Optical Networks, Digest No. 1992/189, London, UK, October 1992, pp.3/1-3/6.
Sinclair, M.C., Trunk Network Fault-Tolerance through Network Augmentation, Proc. 4th Bangor Symposium on Communications, University of Wales - Bangor, May 1992, pp.252-256.
Sinclair, M.C., Trunk Network Fault-Tolerance through Routing Table Updating in the Event of Trunk Failure, Proc. 9th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Guildford, April 1992, pp.17/1-17/9.
1991
Sinclair, M.C., Single-Moment Analysis of Unreliable Trunk Networks: Two Methods for the Network Grade-of-Service, Proc. 8th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Beeston, April 1991, pp.8/1-8/11.