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20122026
most citedToward the Coevolution of Novel Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines

47 citations · 182 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2026

Predicting Privacy Leakage from Weight Spectral Density

Richard J. Preen, Jim Smith

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are widely used to audit the privacy disclosure risk of machine learning models, however current state-of-the-art attacks require training compu…

cs.LG2025

A hierarchical approach for assessing the vulnerability of tree-based classification models to membership inference attack

Richard J. Preen, Jim Smith

Machine learning models can inadvertently expose confidential properties of their training data, making them vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIA). While numerous evalua…

cs.CR2022

A multi-language toolkit for the semi-automated checking of research outputs

Richard J. Preen, Maha Albashir, Simon Davy +1

This article presents a free and open source toolkit that supports the semi-automated checking of research outputs (SACRO) for privacy disclosure within secure data environments. S…

cs.LG2022

Safe machine learning model release from Trusted Research Environments: The SACRO-ML package

Jim Smith, Richard J. Preen, Andrew McCarthy +8

We present SACRO-ML, an integrated suite of open source Python tools to facilitate the statistical disclosure control (SDC) of machine learning (ML) models trained on confidential…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

GRAIMATTER Green Paper: Recommendations for disclosure control of trained Machine Learning (ML) models from Trusted Research Environments (TREs)

Emily Jefferson, James Liley, Maeve Malone +16

TREs are widely, and increasingly used to support statistical analysis of sensitive data across a range of sectors (e.g., health, police, tax and education) as they enable secure a…

cs.NE2021★ 1 cited

Deep Learning with a Classifier System: Initial Results

Richard J. Preen, Larry Bull

This article presents the first results from using a learning classifier system capable of performing adaptive computation with deep neural networks. Individual classifiers within…

cs.NE2019★ 24 cited

Autoencoding with a Classifier System

Richard J. Preen, Stewart W. Wilson, Larry Bull

Autoencoders are data-specific compression algorithms learned automatically from examples. The predominant approach has been to construct single large global models that cover the…

cs.NE2018★ 24 cited

Towards an Evolvable Cancer Treatment Simulator

Richard J. Preen, Larry Bull, Andrew Adamatzky

The use of high-fidelity computational simulations promises to enable high-throughput hypothesis testing and optimisation of cancer therapies. However, increasing realism comes at…

cs.NE2018★ 7 cited

Evolutionary n-level Hypergraph Partitioning with Adaptive Coarsening

Richard J. Preen, Jim Smith

Hypergraph partitioning is an NP-hard problem that occurs in many computer science applications where it is necessary to reduce large problems into a number of smaller, computation…

cs.NE2016★ 11 cited

Design Mining Microbial Fuel Cell Cascades

Richard J. Preen, Jiseon You, Larry Bull +1

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) perform wastewater treatment and electricity production through the conversion of organic matter using microorganisms. For practical applications, it ha…

cs.NE2015★ 4 cited

On Design Mining: Coevolution and Surrogate Models

Richard J. Preen, Larry Bull

Design mining is the use of computational intelligence techniques to iteratively search and model the attribute space of physical objects evaluated directly through rapid prototypi…

cs.NE2014★ 13 cited

Design Mining Interacting Wind Turbines

Richard J. Preen, Larry Bull

An initial study of surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms used to design vertical-axis wind turbines wherein candidate prototypes are evaluated under fan generated wind condit…

cs.NE2013★ 47 cited

Toward the Coevolution of Novel Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines

Richard J. Preen, Larry Bull

The production of renewable and sustainable energy is one of the most important challenges currently facing mankind. Wind has made an increasing contribution to the world's energy…

cs.NE2012★ 6 cited

Towards the Evolution of Novel Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines

Richard J. Preen, Larry Bull

Renewable and sustainable energy is one of the most important challenges currently facing mankind. Wind has made an increasing contribution to the world's energy supply mix, but st…

cs.AI2012★ 3 cited

Fuzzy Dynamical Genetic Programming in XCSF

Richard J. Preen, Larry Bull

A number of representation schemes have been presented for use within Learning Classifier Systems, ranging from binary encodings to Neural Networks, and more recently Dynamical Gen…

cs.AI2012★ 14 cited

Discrete Dynamical Genetic Programming in XCS

Richard J. Preen, Larry Bull

A number of representation schemes have been presented for use within Learning Classifier Systems, ranging from binary encodings to neural networks. This paper presents results fro…

cs.NE2012★ 19 cited

Towards the Evolution of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines using Supershapes

Richard J. Preen, Larry Bull

We have recently presented an initial study of evolutionary algorithms used to design vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) wherein candidate prototypes are evaluated under approxima…

cs.AI2012★ 7 cited

Discrete and fuzzy dynamical genetic programming in the XCSF learning classifier system

Richard J. Preen, Larry Bull

A number of representation schemes have been presented for use within learning classifier systems, ranging from binary encodings to neural networks. This paper presents results fro…