George spent a year at University College Dublin, as a Research Associate working on a project entitled 'The magnetohydrodynamics of nematic liquid crystals'.

In 1978, he returned to UEA as a Senior Research Associate working on a series of projects modelling large ice sheets and their interaction with the climate. As a result of the strong computing element of these projects, George became more and more interested in the science of computing, eventually accepting a lectureship in Computing at the University of East Anglia. I am now a Senior Lecturer in Computing at UEA.

George Smith is part of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Group and the Optimisation and Metaheuristics Group

My current research interests include:

data mining and event stream analysis

modern heuristic search techniques such as:

• genetic algorithms
• simulated annealing
• tabu search
• artificial neural networks
• classifier systems / autonomous adaptive agents
• telecommunications network management and design
• scheduling and resource management
• data mining in the telecommunications sector
  

Past research projects:

• 'The Development of an Electronic Auction Database and Data Mining Analysis'
  TCD - £65,026 Effem Holdings (Master Foods) - £108,739
  A J Bagnall and G D Smith April 2002 - April 2005
• 'Dynamic Channel Assignment.'
  Nortel plc - £50,000
  May 1998 - April 1999
• 'Datamining in the Telecommunications Sector.'
  TCS/ Nortel plc - £154,000 - A Teaching Company Programme between UEA and Nortel Technology
  G D Smith with V J Rayward-Smith
  September 1997 - August 2000
• 'Development of Datamining and Sequencing Software.'
  TCS/ Lanner Group - £154,000 - A Teaching Company Programme between UEA and Lanner Group
  V J Rayward-Smith (Leading Researcher), G D Smith and J C W Debuse
  September 1998 - August 2000
• 'The Use of Adaptive Agents to develop Strategies in the UK Power Pool.'
  National Grid Plc - £13,299, CASE Award starting October 1994
  G D Smith and A J Bagnall
• 'Hybrid Search Techniques in Combinatorial Optimisation Problems in Telecommunications.'
  EPSRC / Nortel plc - £174K - A Teaching Company Programme between UEA and Nortel Technology
  October 1994 - September 1997
  This Programme was given an Alpha 5 (top) rating by TCD/EPSRC.
• 'Modern Heuristic Techniques in the Insurance Industry.'
  EPSRC / Norwich Union - £155,000 - A Teaching Company Programme between UEA and Norwich Union
  G D Smith with V. J. Rayward-Smith and G. P. McKeown
  October 1994 - September 1997
  This Programme was given an Alpha 5 (top) rating by TCD/EPSRC.
• 'Optimisation in Simulation Models.'
  Lanner Group - £34,525
  G D Smith with G P McKeown and V J Rayward-Smith
  January 1997 - February 1998
• 'The application of genetic algorithms to the frequency assignment problem'
  CERT / ONERA - £100,000 - part of a European 1.2 MECU consortium
  G D Smith with V. J. Rayward-Smith
  November 1993 - May 1995
• 'Using Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms to solve Large Scale Scheduling Problems.'
  UNILEVER - £20,000 over 12 months, starting 1st August 1994.
  G D Smith with V. J. Rayward-Smith and G. P. McKeown
• 'Using Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms to solve Large Scale Scheduling Problems. An extension of previous project'
  UNILEVER - £20,000 over 12 months, starting 1st August 1995.
  G D Smith with V. J. Rayward-Smith and G. P. McKeown
• 'Further Development of Heuristic Toolkits'
  DERA - £19,860 over 5 months, starting 1st November 1995.
  G D Smith with V. J. Rayward-Smith and G. P. McKeown
• 'Pilot Study into Applications of GAs in Telecommunications.'
  BNR - £6,875 for 3 month project.
  G D Smith with V. J. Rayward-Smith and J.W. Mann
  

Selected Publications

Muharram, M. A. and Smith, G. D., Evolutionary Constructive Induction. IEEE Trans. On Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 17, Issue 11, Page(s) 1518-1528, 2005.

Bagnall, A. J. and Smith, G. D., A Multi-Agent Model of the UK Market in Electricity Generation. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 9, Issue 5, Page(s) 522-536, 2005.

Whittley, I. M. and Smith, G. D., An attribute based hill climber. Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, Volume 3, Number 2, Page(s) 167-178, 2004.

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Current PhD Students:

• Qiao Li (The genetic epidemiology of osteoarthritis, osteoporosis & Raynaud's Phenomenon)

Completed PhD Students:

• Abdul Aziz Gill (Data mining - non-standard decision trees for classification, started October 2001)
• Nick Walton (Speciation and GAs, PT started 1999)
• Mohammed Muharram (Genetic Programming and Decision trees, started January 2001)
• Kelvin Hai (Data mining heterogeneous data sources and XML, PT started March 2002)
• Emmanuel Hooper (Intrusion Detection and IDA, PT started February 2002)

• Athanassios Kapsalis, 'Genetic Algorithms: Sequential and Parallel Implementations and Case Studies', completed 1996.
• Anthony J Bagnall, 'Modelling the UK Market in Electricity Generation with Autonomous Adaptive Agents', completed in 2000.
• Richard Quick 'An Analysis of Function Optimisation Difficulty for Genetic Algorithms', completed 2001
• Ian M Whittley, 'Tabu Search Revisited', completed 2002.
• Fernando Cruz 'A Comparative Study of Techniques for Financial Risk Measurement', completed 2002.

Completed MPhil Student:

• Nigel C Waring, 'Learning and Interaction in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma', completed 1997 (upgraded from MSc).

• Associate Dean of Knowledge Transfer for the Science Faculty
• Executive Director of SYS Consulting Ltd.
• CMP Under-Graduate Plagiarism Officer
• CMP Deputy Chairman of Under-Graduate Exam Board