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  1. A Functional Analysis Approach to Symbolic Regression

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  2. A Corridor Model Evolutionary Algorithm for Fast Converging Green Vehicle Routing Problem

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  3. A Critical Analysis of Raven Roost Optimization

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  4. Modular Optimization Framework for Mixed Expensive and Inexpensive Real-World Problems

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  5. Hot off the Press: Parallel Multi-Objective Optimization for Expensive and Inexpensive Objectives and Constraints

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein, Kalyanmoy Deb

  6. Generating Cheap Representative Functions for Expensive Automotive Crashworthiness Optimization

    Article • ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, February 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fu Xing Long, Dr. Niki van Stein

  7. Curing ill-Conditionality via Representation-Agnostic Distance-Driven Perturbations

    Article • August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  8. DoE2Vec: Deep-learning Based Features for Exploratory Landscape Analysis

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein, Fu Xing Long

  9. Deep BIAS: Detecting Structural Bias using Explainable AI

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein, Dr Fabio Caraffini

  10. BBOB Instance Analysis: Landscape Properties and Algorithm Performance Across Problem Instances

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein, Fu Xing Long

  11. BIAS: A Toolbox for Benchmarking Structural Bias in the Continuous Domain

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, December 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  12. GSAreport: Easy to Use Global Sensitivity Reporting

    Article • The Journal of Open Source Software, October 2022, The Open Journal

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  13. A Comparison of Global Sensitivity Analysis Methods for Explainable AI with an Application in Genomic Prediction

    Article • August 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  14. A Comparison of Global Sensitivity Analysis Methods for Explainable AI with an Application in Genomic Prediction

    Article • August 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  15. Analysis of how bias in search algorithms can affect the search behaviour

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Fabio Caraffini, Dr. Niki van Stein

  16. Exploratory Landscape Analysis in Real-World Engineering Optimization

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fu Xing Long, Dr. Niki van Stein

  17. Multi-point acquisition function for constraint parallel efficient multi-objective optimization

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  18. End-to-End Pipeline for Uncertainty Quantification and Remaining Useful Life Estimation: An Application on Aircraft Engines

    Article • PHM Society European Conference, June 2022, PHM Society

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  19. Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Exhaust Gas Temperature of Turbofan Engines

    Article • Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  20. Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization with a Limited Budget of Function Evaluations

    Article • Memetic Computing, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  21. Multitask Shape Optimization Using a 3-D Point Cloud Autoencoder as Unified Representation

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, April 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  22. Optimally Weighted Ensembles for Efficient Multi-objective Optimization

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  23. Analysis of Structural Bias in Differential Evolution Configurations

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  24. A Comparison of many Global Sensitivity Analysis methods

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  25. Exploiting Generative Models for Performance Predictions of 3D Car Designs

    Article • December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  26. Using Machine Learning to Detect Rotational Symmetries from Reflectional Symmetries in 2D Images

    Article • December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  27. Point2FFD: Learning Shape Representations of Simulation-Ready 3D Models for Engineering Design Optimization

    Article • December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  28. BIAS: A Toolbox for Benchmarking Structural Bias in the Continuous Domain

    Article • September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  29. BIAS: A Toolbox for Benchmarking Structural Bias in the Continuous Domain

    Article • September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  30. Emergence of structural bias in differential evolution

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Fabio Caraffini, Dr. Niki van Stein

  31. Exploiting Local Geometric Features in Vehicle Design Optimization with 3D Point Cloud Autoencoders

    Article • June 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  32. SAMO-COBRA: A Fast Surrogate Assisted Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Algorithm

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  33. Requirements towards optimizing analytics in industrial processes

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  34. A Tailored NSGA-III for Multi-objective Flexible Job Shop Scheduling

    Article • December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  35. Back To Meshes: Optimal Simulation-ready Mesh Prototypes For Autoencoder-based 3D Car Point Clouds

    Article • December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  36. Neural Network Design: Learning from Neural Architecture Search

    Article • December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  37. Improving NSGA-III for flexible job shop scheduling using automatic configuration, smart initialization and local search

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  38. Feature Visualization for 3D Point Cloud Autoencoders

    Article • July 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  39. A New Approach Towards the Combined Algorithm Selection and Hyper-parameter Optimization Problem

    Article • December 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  40. On the Efficiency of a Point Cloud Autoencoder as a Geometric Representation for Shape Optimization

    Article • December 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  41. Scalability of Learning Tasks on 3D CAE Models Using Point Cloud Autoencoders

    Article • December 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  42. Cluster-based Kriging approximation algorithms for complexity reduction

    Article • Applied Intelligence, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  43. Automatic Configuration of Deep Neural Networks with Parallel Efficient Global Optimization

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  44. Designing Ships Using Constrained Multi-objective Efficient Global Optimization

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  45. A Novel Uncertainty Quantification Method for Efficient Global Optimization

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  46. A multi-method simulation of a high-frequency bus line

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  47. A new acquisition function for Bayesian optimization based on the moment-generating function

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  48. Algorithm configuration data mining for CMA evolution strategies

    Article • July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  49. Time complexity reduction in efficient global optimization using cluster kriging

    Article • July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  50. A framework for evaluating meta-models for simulation-based optimisation

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  51. Local subspace-based outlier detection using global neighbourhoods

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  52. Fuzzy clustering for Optimally Weighted Cluster Kriging

    Article • July 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  53. An Incremental Algorithm for Repairing Training Sets with Missing Values

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  54. Analysis and Visualization of Missing Value Patterns

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein

  55. Optimally Weighted Cluster Kriging for Big Data Regression

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niki van Stein