SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Selected Refereed Publications

To get full papers, please download from the Genetic Programming Bibliography, DBLP, or ask me via Mengjie.Zhang@ecs.vuw.ac.nz.

  1. Carlton Downey, Mengjie Zhang, Jing Liu. "Parallel Linear Genetic Programming for Multi-class Classification". Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s10710-012-9162-9. (27 April 2012 Published online).

  2. Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae. "A Filter Approach to Multiple Feature Construction for Symbolic Learning Classifiers Using Genetic Programming". IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. (2011 Accepted, published online). DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2011.2166158.

  3. Urvesh Bhowan, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "Developing New Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data". IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part B). Vol. 42, No. 2. 2012. pp. 406-421. DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2011.2167144. Online date: 26/09/2011.

  4. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang. "Parent Selection Pressure Auto-tuning for Tournament Selection in Genetic Programming". IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2011. DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2011.2182652 (Published online).

  5. Rohitash Chandra, Marcus Frean and Mengjie Zhang. "Adapting modularity during learning in cooperative co-evolutionary recurrent neural networks". Soft Computing. Vol. 16, No. 6. 2012. pp. 1009-1020. DOI: 10.1007/s00500-011-0798-9. (Online first in December 2011).

  6. Urvesh Bhowan, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang, Xin Yao. "Evolving Diverse Ensembles using Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data". IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2011. (To Appear)

  7. Rohitash Chandra and Mengjie Zhang. "Cooperative Coevolution of Elman Recurrent Neural Networks for Chaotic Time Series Prediction". (journal of) Neurocomputing . Vol. 86. 2012. pp. 116-123. 10.1016/j.neucom.2012.01.014.

  8. Harith Al-Sahaf, Andy Song, Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Two-Tier Genetic Programming Towards Raw Pixel Based Image Classification". Expert Systems With Applications. 2012. (To appear)

  9. Rohitash Chandra, Marcus Frean and Mengjie Zhang. "On the Issue of Separability for Problem Decomposition in Cooperative Neuro-evolution". Neurocomputing . Vol. 87. 2012. pp. 33-40. DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2012.02.005.

  10. Bing Xue, Liam Cervante, Lin Shang and Mengjie Zhang. "A Particle Swarm Optimisation Based Multi-Objective Filter Approach to Feature Selection for Classification". Proceeding of the 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2012). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.. Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. 3-7 September 2012. (To appear)

  11. Lin Shang, Haipeng Wang, Xinyu Dai and Mengjie Zhang. "Opinion Target Extraction for Short CommentsOpinion Target Extraction for Short Comments". Proceeding of the 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2012). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.. Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. 3-7 September 2012. (To appear)

  12. Wenlong Fu, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming for Edge Detection Based on Figure of Merit". Proceedings of 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012). ACM Press. Philadelphia, USA. 7-11 July 2012. (To appear)

  13. Toktam Ebadi, Will N. Browne, Mengjie Zhang. "XCS-based versus UCS-based Feature Pattern Classification System". Proceedings of 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012). ACM Press. Philadelphia, USA. 7-11 July 2012. (To appear)

  14. Muhammad Iqbal, Will N. Browne, Mengjie Zhang. "Extracting and Using Building Blocks of Knowledge in Learning Classifier Systems". Proceedings of 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012). ACM Press. Philadelphia, USA. 7-11 July 2012. (To appear)

  15. Syahaneim Marzukh, Will N. Browne, Mengjie Zhang. "Two-Cornered Learning Classifier Systems for Pattern Generation and Classification". Proceedings of 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012). ACM Press. Philadelphia, USA. 7-11 July 2012. (To appear)

  16. Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang, Will N. Browne. "Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) for Feature Selection". Proceedings of 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012). ACM Press. Philadelphia, USA. 7-11 July 2012. (To appear)

  17. Wenlong Fu, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming for Edge Detection Using Blocks to Extract Features". Proceedings of 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012). ACM Press. Philadelphia, USA. 7-11 July 2012. (To appear)

  18. Mahdi Setayesh, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "A Spatial Random-Meaningful Neighbourhood Topology in PSO for Edge Detection in Noisy Images". Proceedings of 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012). ACM Press. Philadelphia, USA. 7-11 July 2012. (To appear)

  19. Harith Al-Sahaf, Andy Song, Kourosh Neshatian and Mengjie Zhang. "Extracting Image Features for Classification By Two-Tier Genetic Programming". Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2012. (To appear)

  20. Fahmi Abdulhamid, Andy Song, Kourosh Neshatian and Mengjie Zhang. "Evolving Genetic Programming Classifiers with Loop Structures". Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2012. (To appear)

  21. Mahdi Setayesh, Mengjie Zhang and Mark Johnston. "Effects of Static and Dynamic Topologies in Particle Swarm Optimisation for Edge Detection in Noisy Images". Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2012. (To appear)

  22. Wenlong Fu, Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming for Edge Detection via Balancing Individual Training Images". Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2012. (To appear)

  23. Liam Cervante, Bing Xue and Mengjie Zhang. "Binary Particle Swarm Optimisation for Feature Selection: A Filter Based Approach". Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2012. (To appear)

  24. Wenlong Fu, Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang. "Soft Edge Maps From Edge Detectors Evolved by Genetic Programming". Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2012. (To appear)

  25. Rachel Hunt, Kourosh Neshatian and Mengjie Zhang. "Scalability Analysis of Genetic Programming Classifiers". Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2012. (To appear)

  26. Su Nguyen, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston and Tan Kay Chen. "A Coevolution Genetic Programming Method to Evolve Scheduling Policies for Dynamic Multi-objective Job Shop Scheduling Problems". Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2012. (To appear)

  27. Juan Rada-Vilela, Mengjie Zhang and Winston Seah. "A Performance Study on the Effects of Noise and Evaporation in Particle Swarm Optimization". Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2012. (To appear)

  28. Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang and Will N. Browne. "New Fitness Functions in Binary Particle Swarm Optimisation for Feature Selection". Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2012. (To appear)

  29. Su Nguyen, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston, Kay Chen Tan. "Evolving Reusable Operation-Based Due-Date Assignment Models for Job Shop Scheduling with Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7244. Springer. 2012. pp. 121-133. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29139-5_11.

  30. Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Improving Relevance Measures Using Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7244. Springer. 2012. pp. 97-108. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29139-5_9.

  31. Kourosh Neshatian , Mengjie Zhang. "Using Genetic Programming for Context-Sensitive Feature Scoring in Classification Problems". Connection Science. Vol. 23, No. 3. 2011. pp.183-207. DOI: 10.1080/09540091.2011.630065.

  32. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang. "Impacts of Sampling Strategies in Tournament Selection for Genetic Programming". Soft Computing. Vol. 16, No. 4. 2012. pp. 615-633. DOI: 10.1007/s00500-011-0760-x.

  33. Rohitash Chandra, Marcus Frean, Mengjie Zhang, Christian W. Omlin. "Encoding Subcomponents in Cooperative Co-evolutionary Recurrent Neural Networks". Neurocomputing. Vol. 74, Issue 17. 2011. pp. 3223-3234. DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2011.05.003.

  34. Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang, Will N. Browne. "Single Feature Ranking and Binary Particle Swarm Optimisation Based Feature Subset Ranking for Feature Selection". Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2012). Melbourne, Australia. 30 Jan - 2 Feb 2012. pp. 27-36.

  35. Harith Al-Sahaf, Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Two-tier Genetic Programming for Automatic Feature Extraction, Feature Selection and Image Classification". Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. Auckland. 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2011. pp. 109-114.

  36. Fahmi Abdulhamid, Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Image Recognition using Genetic Programming with Loop Structures". Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. Auckland. 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2011. pp. 553-558.

  37. Wenlong Fu, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "Analysis of Diagonal Derivatives in Edge Detectors Evolved by Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. Auckland. 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2011. pp. 345-350.

  38. Mahdi Setayesh, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "A Novel Local Thresholding Technique in PSO for Detecting Continuous Edges in Noisy Images". Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. Auckland. 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2011. pp. 333-339.

  39. Harith Al-Sahaf, Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Automatic Feature Extraction And Image Classification Using Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automation, Robots and Applications (ICARA 2011). IEEE Press. Wellington, New Zealand. December 6-8 2011. pp. 157-162.

  40. Fahmi Abdulhamid, Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming for Evolving Programs with Loop Structures for Classification Tasks". Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automation, Robots and Applications (ICARA 2011). IEEE Press. Wellington, New Zealand. December 6-8 2011. pp. 202-207.

  41. Juan Rada-Vilela, Mengjie Zhang, Winston Seah. "Random Asynchronous PSO". Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automation, Robots and Applications (ICARA 2011). IEEE Press. Wellington, New Zealand. December 6-8 2011. pp. 220-225.

  42. Syahaneim Marzukhi, Will N. Browne, Mengjie Zhang. "Developing An Evolvable Pattern Generator Using Learning Classifier Systems". Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automation, Robots and Applications (ICARA 2011). IEEE Press. Wellington, New Zealand. December 6-8 2011. pp. 163-168.

  43. Urvesh Bhowan, Mengjie Zhang and Mark Johnston. "Ensemble Learning and Pruning in Multi-Objective Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data". Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 7106. Springer. Perth, Australia, December 5-8, 2011. pp. 192-202.

  44. Jingxuan Wei and Mengjie Zhang. "Simplex Model Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization". Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 7106. Springer. Perth, Australia, December 5-8, 2011. pp. 372-381.

  45. Rachel Hunt, Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang. "Improving Robustness in Multi-Objective Genetic Programming for Object Detection". Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 7106. Springer. Perth, Australia, December 5-8, 2011. pp. 311-320.

  46. Mahdi Setayesh, Mengjie Zhang and Mark Johnston. "Investigating Particle Swarm Optimisation Topologies for Edge Detection in Noisy Images". Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 7106. Springer. Perth, Australia, December 5-8, 2011. pp. 609-618.

  47. Wenlong Fu, Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming for Edge Detection Based on Accuracy of Each Training Image". Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 7106. Springer. Perth, Australia, December 5-8, 2011. pp. 301-310.

  48. Aaron Scoble, Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang. "Eliminating Useless Object Detectors Evolved in Multiple-Objective Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 7106. Springer. Perth, Australia, December 5-8, 2011. pp. 341-350.

  49. Urvesh Bhowan, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "Evolving Ensembles in Multi-objective Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data". Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'11), ACM Press. 2011. pp. 1331-1338.

  50. Mahdi Setayesh, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "Detection of Continuous Smooth and Thin Edges in Noisy Images Using Constrained Particle Swarm Optimisation". Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'11), ACM Press. 2011. pp. 45-52.

  51. Juan Rada-Vilela, Mengjie Zhang, Winston Seah. "A performance study on synchronous and asynchronous updates in particle swarm optimization". Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'11), ACM Press. 2011. pp. 21-28.

  52. Su Nguyen, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "A Genetic Programming Based Hyper-heuristic Approach for Combinatorial Optimisation". Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'11), ACM Press. 2011. pp. 1299-1306.

  53. Wenlong F, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimisation Based on History Information Sharing". Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'11), ACM Press. 2011. pp. 77-84.

  54. Carlton Downey, Mengjie Zhang. "Caching for Parallel Linear Genetic Programming". Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. GECCO (Companion) 2011, ACM Press. pp. 201-202.

  55. Ignas Kukenys, Will Browne, Mengjie Zhang. "Confusion Matrices for Improving Performance of Feature Pattern Classifier Systems". Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. GECCO (Companion) 2011, ACM Press. 2011. pp. 181-182.

  56. Jingxuan Wei, Mengjie Zhang. "Attraction Based PSO with Sphere Search for Dynamic Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization Problems". Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. GECCO (Companion) 2011. ACM Press. pp. 77-78.

  57. Muhammad Iqbal, Will Browne, Mengjie Zhang. "Automatically Defined Functions for Learning Classifier Systems". The Fourteenth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems. Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. GECCO (Companion) 2011, ACM Press. pp. 375-382.

  58. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang. "Depth-Control Strategies for Crossover in Tree-based Genetic Programming". (Journal of) Soft Computing. 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s00500-011-0700-9. Vol. 15, No. 9. 2011. pp. 1865-1878.

  59. Mahdi Setayesh, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "Edge Detection Using Constrained Discrete Particle Swarm Optimisation in Noisy Images". Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. New Orleans, USA. June 5-8, 2011. pp. 246-253.

  60. Jingxuan Wei and Mengjie Zhang. "A Memetic Particle Swarm Optimization for Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Problems". Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. New Orleans, USA. June 5-8, 2011. pp. 1635-1642.

  61. Wenlong Fu, Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming For Edge Detection: A Global Approach". Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. New Orleans, USA. June 5-8, 2011. pp. 254-261.

  62. Carlton Downey and Mengjie Zhang. "Execution Trace Caching for Linear Genetic Programming". Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. New Orleans, USA. June 5-8, 2011. pp. 1191-1198.

  63. Daniel Atkins, Kourosh Neshatian and Mengjie Zhang. "A Domain Independent Genetic Programming Approach to Automatic Feature Extraction for Image Classification". Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. New Orleans, USA. June 5-8, 2011. pp. 238-245.

  64. Anna Friedlander, Kourosh Neshatian and Mengjie Zhang. "Meta-Learning and Feature Ranking Using Genetic Programming for Classification: Variable Terminal Weighting". Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. New Orleans, USA. June 5-8, 2011. pp. 940-947.

  65. Rohitash Chandra, Marcus Frean and Mengjie Zhang. "Modularity Adaptation in Cooperative Coevolution of Feedforward Neural Networks". Proceedings of 2011 the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2011). IEEE Press. San Jose, California. July 31 - August 5, 2011. pp. 681-688.

  66. Rohitash Chandra, Marcus Frean and Mengjie Zhang. "A Memetic Framework for Cooperative Coevolution of Recurrent Neural Networks". Proceedings of 2011 the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2011). IEEE Press. San Jose, California. July 31 - August 5, 2011. pp. 673-680.

  67. Mengjie Zhang, Michael Kirley and Xiaodong Li. "special issue on evolutionary optimisation and learning". (Journal of) Soft Computing. DOI: 10.1007/s00500-010-0609-8. Vol. 15, No. 9. 2011. pp. 1671-1673.

  68. Ammar Mohemmed, Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang. "Particle swarm optimisation based AdaBoost for object detection". (Journal of) Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications. DOI: 10.1007/s00500-010-0615-x. Vol. 15, No. 9. 2011. pp. 1793-1805.

  69. Carlton Downey, Mengjie Zhang. "Parallel Linear Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Genetic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6621. Springer. Torino, Italy 2011. pp. 178-189. ( Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

  70. Ignas Kukenys, Will Browne, Mengjie Zhang. "Transparent, Online Image Pattern Classication Using a Learning Classier System". Proceedings of the 13th European event on evolutionary computation in image analysis and signal processing (EvoApplications 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. Torino, Italy 2011. (To appear)

  71. Wenlong Fu, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimisation with Differential Evolution Approach to Image Segmentation". Proceedings of the 13th European event on evolutionary computation in image analysis and signal processing (EvoApplications 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6624 Springer. Torino, Italy 2011. pp. 173-182.

  72. Urvesh Bhowan, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "A Comparison of Classification Strategies in Genetic Programming with Unbalanced Data". Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 6464. Springer. Adelaide, Australia, 2010. pp. 243-252. (Nominated for the Best Student Paper award)

  73. Mahdi Setayesh, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "Edge and Corner Extraction using Particle Swarm Optimisation". Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 6464. Springer. Adelaide, Australia, 2010. pp. 323-333.

  74. Rachel Hunt, Mark Johnston, Will Browne, Mengjie Zhang. "Sampling Methods in Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data". Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 6464. Springer. Adelaide, Australia, 2010. pp. 273-282.

  75. Wenlong Fu, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithms based on Differential Evolution and Local Search". Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 6464. Springer. Adelaide, Australia, 2010. pp. 313-322.

  76. Rohitash Chandra, Marcus Frean, Mengjie Zhang. "An Encoding Scheme for Cooperative Coevolutionary Neural Networks". Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 6464. Springer. Adelaide, Australia, 2010. pp. 253-262.

  77. Lee Macri, Will Browne, and Mengjie Zhang. "Particle Swarm Optimisation Based AdaBoost for Facial Expression Classication of Still Images". Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. IEEE. Queenstown, New Zealand, 2010. 8pp.

  78. Mahdi Setayesh, Mengjie Zhang, and Mark Johnston. "Improving Edge Detection Using Particle Swarm Optimisation". Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. IEEE. Queenstown, New Zealand, 2010. 8pp.

  79. David Kinzett, Mengjie Zhang and Mark Johnston. "Investigation of Simplification Threshold and Noise Level of Input Data in Numerical Simplification of Genetic Programs". Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Barcelona, Spain. 2010. IEEE. pp. 3065-3072.

  80. Thomas Liddle, Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang. "Multi-Objective Genetic Programming for Object Detection". Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Barcelona, Spain. 2010. IEEE. pp.3345-3352.

  81. Jan Larris, Mengjie Zhang and Will Browne. "Using Unrestricted Loops in Genetic Programming for Image Classification". Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Barcelona, Spain. 2010. IEEE. pp. 4600-4607.

  82. Daniel Atkins, Will Browne and Mengjie Zhang. "Evolution of Aesthetically Pleasing Art Without Human-In-The-Loop". Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Barcelona, Spain. 2010. IEEE. pp. 2194-2201.

  83. Andy Song, Dunhai Chen and Mengjie Zhang. "Contribution Based Bloat Control in Genetic Programming". Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Barcelona, Spain. 2010. IEEE. pp. 1725-1732.

  84. Carlton Downey, Mengjie Zhang, Will Browne. "New Crossover Operators in Linear Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object Classification". Proceedings of 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.. Portland, USA. 2010. ACM. pp. 885-892.

  85. Urvesh Bhowan, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "AUC Analysis of the Pareto-Front using Multi-objective GP for Classification with Unbalanced Data". Proceedings of 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.. Portland, USA. 2010. ACM. pp.845-852.

  86. Ammar Mohemmed, Mengjie Zhang, Will Browne. "Particle Swarm Optimisation for Outlier Detection". Proceedings of 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.. Portland, USA. 2010. ACM. pp.83-84.

  87. Urvesh Bhowan, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data". Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6021. Istanbul, Turkey. 2010. Springer. pp. 1-13.

  88. Mark Johnston, Thomas Liddle, Mengjie Zhang. "A Relaxed Approach to Simplification in Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 6021. Istanbul, Turkey. 2010. Springer. pp. 110-121.

  89. David Kinzett, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "Analysis of Building Blocks with Numerical Simplification in Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6021. Istanbul, Turkey. 2010. Springer. pp. 289-300.

  90. Nor Azlina Ab. Aziz, Ammar Mohemmed, Mengjie Zhang. "Particle Swarm Optimization for Coverage Maximization and Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks". Proceedings of European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation 2010, the 7th European Event on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6025. Istanbul, Turkey. 2010. Springer. pp. 51-60.

  91. Michael Kirley, Mengjie Zhang and Xiaodong Li. "Special Issue on Simulated Evolution and Learning". Evolutionary Intelligence. Vol 2, No. 4. pp. 149-150.. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12065-009-0033-0. Springer. Dec 2009.

  92. Daniel McGaughran, Mengjie Zhang. "Evolving More Representative Programs with Genetic Programming". International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. Vol. 19, No. 1. 2009. pp. 1-22.

  93. David Kinzett, Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang. "Numerical simplification for bloat control and analysis of building blocks in genetic programming". (Journal of) Evolutionary Intelligence. Vol 2, No. 4. pp. 151-168. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12065-009-0029-9. Springer. Dec 2009.

  94. Urvesh Bhowan, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "Genetic Programming for Image Classification with Unbalanced Data". Proceeding of the 24th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. Wellington, 2009. IEEE Press. pp. 316-321.

  95. Mahdi Setayesh, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "A new homogenity-based approach to edge detection using PSO". Proceeding of the 24th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. Wellington, 2009. IEEE Press. pp. 231-236.

  96. Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Dimensionality Reduction in Face Detection: A Genetic Programming Approach". Proceeding of the 24th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. Wellington, 2009. IEEE Press. pp. 391-396.

  97. Carlton Downey, Mengjie Zhang. "Multiclass Object Classification for Computer Vision using Linear Genetic Programming". Proceeding of the 24th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. Wellington, 2009. IEEE Press. pp. 73-78.

  98. Rohitash Chandra, Mengjie Zhang and Luc Rolland. "A Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Approach to the Forward Kinematics of 3RPR Planar Parallel Manipulator". Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA2009). 2009. IEEE Press. pp. 177-182

  99. Urvesh Bhowan, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "Multi-Objective Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data". Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 5866, Springer. 2009. pp. 370-380.

  100. Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Unsupervised Elimination of Redundant Features Using Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 5866. Springer. 2009. pp. 432-442. ( Best Student Paper Award)

  101. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang. "Balancing Parent and Offspring Selection in Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 5866. Springer. 2009. pp. 454-464.

  102. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang. "An Analysis and Evaluation of the Saving Capability and Feasibility of Backward-chaining Evolutionary Algorithms". Proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL'09), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 5865. Springer. 2009. pp. 63-72.

  103. Mengjie Zhang, Stefano Cagnoni, Gustavo Olague. "GECCO 2009 Tutorial: Evolutionary Computer Vision". Proceedings of the 11th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation conference. ACM Press. 2009. pp. 3355-3380. ISBN: 978-1-60558-505-5.

  104. Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Pareto Front Feature Selection: Using Genetic Programming to Explore the Feature Space". Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009). ACM Press. 2009. pp. 1027-1034. ISBN:978-1-60558-325-9

  105. David Kinzett, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "How Online Simplification Affects Building Blocks in Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009). ACM Press. 2009. pp. 979-986. ISBN:978-1-60558-325-9

  106. Ammar Mohhemed, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "Particle Swarm Optimization Based Multi-prototype Ensembles". Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009). ACM Press. 2009. pp. 57-64. ISBN:978-1-60558-325-9. ( Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

  107. Andy Song, Dunhai Chen, Mengjie Zhang. "Bloat Control by Evaluating Contribution of Nodes". Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009). ACM Press. 2009. pp. 1893-1894. ISBN:978-1-60558-325-9.

  108. Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming for Feature Subset Ranking in Binary Classification Problems". Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2009). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 5481. Springer, 2009. Tübingen, Germany. pp.121-132.

  109. Urvesh Bhowan, Mark Johnston, and Mengjie Zhang. "Differentiating Between Individual Class Performance in Genetic Programming Fitness for Classification with Unbalanced Data". Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2009. pp. 2802 - 2809.

  110. Ammar Mohemmed, Mengjie Zhang and Mark Johnston. "Particle Swarm Optimization Based Adaboost for Face Detection". Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. 2009. pp. 2494 - 2501.

  111. Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "A Variant Program Structure in Tree-Based Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object Classification". Book chapter of Evolutionary Image Analysis and Signal Processing. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Vol. 213. Chapter 3. Springer. 2009. pp.55-72.

  112. Wayne Wobcke, Mengjie Zhang. AI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 21st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 5360) , Auckland, New Zealand, December 1-5, 2008. Proceedings Springer 2008. 616+xvi pages. ISBN: 978-3-540-89377-6.

  113. Xiaodong Li, Michael Kirley, Mengjie Zhang, David G. Green, Victor Ciesielski, Hussein A. Abbass, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Tim Hendtlass, Kalyanmoy Deb, Kay Chen Tan, Jurgen Branke, Yuhui Shi (Eds.) (2008). Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 5361) , Melbourne, Australia, December 7 - 10, 2008. 658+xvi pages. ISBN: 978-3-540-89693-7

  114. Mengjie Zhang and Phillip Wong. "Genetic Programming for Medical Classification: A Program Simplification Approach". Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. Vol. 9, No. 3, 2008. pp. 229-255. DOI 10.1007/s10710-008-9059-9.

  115. Peter Andreae, Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming for Detecting Rhythmic Stress in Spoken English". International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems (KES Journal). Special Issue on Genetic Programming. Vol. 12, No. 1, 2008. pp. 15-28.

  116. Xiaoying Gao, Le Phong Bao Vuong, and Mengjie Zhang. "Detecting Data Records in Semi-Structured Web Sites Based on Text Token Clustering". Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (ICAE). Vol. 15, No. 4, 2008. pp. 297-311.

  117. Mengjie Zhang, Phillip Wong. "Explicitly Simplifying Evolved Genetic Programs During Evolution". International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications. Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008. pp. 201-232.

  118. Ammar Mohemmed, Mengjie Zhang and Mark Johnston. "A PSO Based AdaBoost Approach to Object Detection". Proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'08). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 5361. Springer. 2008. pp. 81-90.

  119. David Kinzett, Mengjie Zhang and Mark Johnston. "Using Numerical Simplification to Control Bloat in Genetic Programming." Proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'08). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 5361. Springer. 2008. pp. 493-502.

  120. Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang and Peter Andreae. "Genetic Programming for Feature Ranking in Classification Problems". Proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'08). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 5361. Springer. 2008. pp. 544-554.

  121. Hamish Evans and Mengjie Zhang. "Particle Swarm Optimisation for Object Classification". 23rd International Conference Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. IEEE Press. 2008. pp.1-6. DOI: 10.1109/IVCNZ.2008.4762143. ISBN: 978-1-4244-3780-1

  122. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae, Mark Johnston, "An Analysis of Multi-Sampled Issue and No-Replacement Tournament Selection", Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008) , ACM Press. Atlanta, USA, July 2008. pp. 1323-1330.

  123. Ammar W Mohemmed, Mengjie Zhang. "Evaluation of Particle Swarm Optimization Based Centroid Classifier with Different Distance Metrics". Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.. IEEE Press. Hong Kong. June 2008. pp. 2934-2937.

  124. Will Smart, Mengjie Zhang. "Empirical Analysis of Schemata in Genetic Programming using Maximal Schemata and MSG". Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.. IEEE Press. Hong Kong. June 2008. pp. 2988-2995.

  125. Phillip Wong, Mengjie Zhang. "SCHEME: Caching Subtrees in Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.. IEEE Press. Hong Kong. June 2008. pp. 2683-2690.

  126. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae and Mark Johnston. "Is the Not-Sampled Issue in Tournament Selection Critical?". Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.. IEEE Press. Hong Kong. June 2008. pp. 3711-3718.

  127. Kourosh Neshatian and Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming for Performance Improvement and Dimensionality Reduction of Classification Problems". Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.. IEEE Press. Hong Kong. June 2008. pp. 2816-2823.

  128. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae. "An Analysis of the Distribution of Swapped Subtree Sizes in Tree-based Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.. IEEE Press. Hong Kong. June 2008. pp. 2864-2971.

  129. Barret Chin, Mengjie Zhang. "Object Detection using Neural Networks and Genetic Programming". Proceedings of EvoIASP08, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4974. Springer. Naple, Italy. March 2008. pp 335-340.

  130. Ammar W Mohemmed, Mengjie Zhang, Nirod Chandra Sahoo. "Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization for the Delay Constrained Least Cost Path Problem". Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation European Conference on Genetic Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4972. Springer. Naple, Italy. March 2008. pp. 25-35.

  131. Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming and Class-wise Orthogonal Transformation for Dimension Reduction in Classification Problems." Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Genetic Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4971. Springer. Naple, Italy. March 2008. pp. 242-253.

  132. Mengjie Zhang, Xiaoying Gao, Weijun Lou. "A New Crossover Operator in Genetic Programming for Object Classification". IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B. Vol. 37, No.5, 2007. pp. 1332-1243.

  133. Mengjie Zhang. "Improving Object Detection Performance with Genetic Programming". International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. Vol. 16, No. 5, 2007. pp. 849-873.

  134. Mengjie Zhang. "A Linear Structured Approach and A Refined Fitness Function in Genetic Programming for Multi-class Object Classification". Connection Science. Vol. 19. No. 4, 2007. pp. 339-359.

  135. Mengjie Zhang, Urvesh Bhowan, Bunna Ny. "Genetic Programming for Object Detection: A Two-Phase Approach with an Improved Fitness Function". Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis. Vol. 6. No. 1. 2007. pp.27-43.

  136. Kourosh Neshatian, Mengjie Zhang and Mark Johnston. "Feature Construction and Dimension Reduction Using Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 4830. Springer. Gold Coast, Australia. December 2007. pp. 160-170.

  137. Grant Patterson and Mengjie Zhang. "Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data". Proceedings of the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 4830. Springer. Gold Coast, Australia. December 2007. pp.769-775.

  138. Krzysztof Krawiec, Daniel Howard, Mengjie Zhang. "Overview of Object Detection and Image Analysis by Means of Genetic Programming Techniques". Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference Frontiers in the Convergence of Bioscience and Information Technologies (FBIT 2007). IEEE Press. Jeju Island, Korea, October 11-13, 2007. pp. 779-784.

  139. Xiaoying Gao, Le Phong Bao Vuong, Mengjie Zhang. "Automatic Data Record Detection in Web Pages". Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4798. Springer. Melbourne, Australia. November 2007. pp. 349-361

  140. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae. "Genetic Programming for New Zealand CPI Inflation Prediction". Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. Singapore. 2007. pp. 2538-2545.

  141. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae. "An Analysis of Depth of Crossover Points in Tree-based Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. Singapore. 2007. pp. 4561-4568.

  142. Phillip Wong, Mengjie Zhang. "Effects of Program Simplification on Simple Building Blocks in Genetic Programming ". Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Press. Singapore. 2007. pp. 1570-1577.

  143. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae. "Another Investigation on Tournament Selection: Modeling and Visualisation". Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'07). ACM Press. 2007. pp. 1468-1475.

  144. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae. "An Analysis of Constructive Crossover and Selection Pressure in Genetic Programming". Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'07). ACM Press. 2007. pp. 1739-1746.

  145. Phillip Wong, Mengjie Zhang. "Numerical-Node Building Block Analysis of Genetic Programming with Simplification". Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'07). ACM Press. 2007. pp. 1761.

  146. Mengjie Zhang. ``Genetic Programming Techniques for Multi-class Object Recognition''. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation for Image Processing and Analysis. Chapter 17. Hindawi Press. 2007. pp. 349-370.

  147. Will Smart, Peter Andreae, Mengjie Zhang. "Empirical Analysis of GP Tree-Fragments". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EuroGP 2007). Vol. 4445, Springer. pp. 55-67.( Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

  148. Mengjie Zhang, Christopher Fogelberg. "Genetic Programming for Image Recognition: An LGP Approach". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (IASP 2007). Vol. 4448, Springer. pp.340-350.

  149. Mengjie Zhang. ``Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks for Object Detection''. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation for Image Processing and Analysis. Chapter 20. Hindawi Press. 2007. pp.415-440.

  150. Xin Li, Jinguo Zhang, Mengjie Zhang, Li Zhao. "An Approach to Identification of Weed in Wheat Fields." Journal of Agricultural Mechanization Research. Vol. 2007, No. 5. 2007. pp. 64-68.

  151. Xiaoli Ma, Guifa Teng, Mengjie Zhang. "Carbon Potential Prediction Using Genetic Programming". Control and Automation. Vol. 23, No. 9. 2007. pp.239-241.

  152. Mengjie Zhang. "Using Gaussian Distribution to Construct Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object Classification ". Pattern Recognition Letters. Vol. 27, Issue 11. 2006. pp.1266-1274.

  153. Mengjie Zhang, Malcolm Lett. "Genetic Programming for Object Detection: Improving Fitness Functions and Optimising Training Data". IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin (IEEE Computational Intelligence Bulletin). Vol. 7, No. 1. 2006. pp. 12-21.

  154. Le Phone Bao Vuong, Xiaoying Gao, Mengjie Zhang. "Data Extraction from Semi-structured Web Pages by Clustering". Web Intelligence 2006: Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Hong Kong. IEEE Press. 2006. pp.374-377.

  155. Ji Qian, Dongping Qian, Mengjie Zhang. "A Digit Recognition System for Paper Currency Ifentification Based on Virtual Instruments". Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Automation (ICIA'06). IEEE Press. 2006. pp228-233.

  156. Mengjie Zhang, Xiaoying Gao, Weijun Lou. "GP for Object Classification: Brood Size in Brood Recombination Crossover ". Proceedings of the 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4304, Springer. 2006. pp.274-284.

  157. Xiaoying Gao, Mengjie Zhang, Minh Duc Cao. "TreeWrapper: Automatic Data Extraction based on Tree Representation ". Proceedings of the 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4304, Springer. 2006. pp. 566-576.

  158. Mengjie Zhang. "Genetic Programming for Object Detection." Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand. Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. pp. 435-440.

  159. Mengjie Zhang, Malcolm Lett. "Localisation Fitness in GP for Object Detection". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3907. Springer. 2006. pp.472-483.

  160. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae. "Population Clustering in Genetic Programming ". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3905. Springer. 2006. pp.190-201.

  161. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae. "Genetic Programming for Automatic Stress Detection in Spoken English". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3907. Springer. 2006. pp.460-471.

  162. Xiaoying Gao, Mengjie Zhang. "Information Extraction from a Whole Web Site". Proceedings of The fourth International Conference on Active Media Technology, Advances in Intelligent IT: Active Media Technology 2006. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Vol. 138. IOS Press. pp. 52-57.

  163. Mengjie Zhang, Xiaoying Gao, Minh Duc Cao and Yuejin Ma. "Modelling Citation Networks for Improving Scientific Paper Classification Performance." Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 4099. Springer, 2006. pp. 413-422.

  164. Phillip Wong, Mengjie Zhang. "Algebraic Simplification of GP Programs during Evolution". Proceeding of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2006 (GECCO 2006). ACM Press. pp. 927-934.

  165. Mengjie Zhang, Xiaoying Gao, Weijun Lou, Dongping Qian. "Investigation of Brood Size in GP with Brood Recombination Crossover for Object Recognition" Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 4099. Springer, 2006. pp. 923-928.

  166. Mengjie Zhang, Xiaoying Gao and Weijun Lou. "Looseness Controlled Crossover in GP for Object Classification". Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, a part of IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence. Vancouver BC, Canada. IEEE Press. 2006. pp.4428-4435.

  167. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang and Peter Andreae. "A Study of Good Predecessor Programs for Reducing Fitness Evaluation Cost in Genetic Programming". Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, a part of IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence. Vancouver BC, Canada. IEEE Press. 2006. pp.9211-9218.

  168. Mengjie Zhang, et al. "Neural Networks for Scientific Paper Classification". Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control. IEEE Press. Beijing, August, 2006. Vol. 2, pp 51-54.

  169. Mengjie Zhang, Phillip Wong, Dongping Qian. "Online Program Simplification in Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4247, Springer. 2006. pp.592-600.

  170. Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang. "Automatic Selection Pressure Control in Genetic Programming". Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications. IEEE Press. 2006. pp. 435-440.

  171. Mengjie Zhang, Malcolm Lett. "Refining Fitness Function and Optimising Training Data in GP for Object Detection". Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4247. Springer. 2006. pp.601-608. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

  172. Mengjie Zhang. "Mining Small Objects in Large Images Using Neural Networks". Book chapter of Foundation of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Studies in computational intelligence. Vol. 6. Springer, 2005. pp. 289-314.

  173. Christopher Fogelberg, Mengjie Zhang. "Linear Genetic Programming for Multi-class Object Classification". Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3809. Springer. 2005. pp.369-379.

  174. Will Smart, Mengjie Zhang. ``Using Genetic Programming for Multiclass Classification by Simultaneously Solving Component Binary Classification Problems''. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3447. Springer. 2005. pp. 227-239.

  175. Guang Chen, Mengjie Zhang. "Evolving While-Loop Structures in Genetic Programming for Factorial and Ant Problems". Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3809.Springer. 2005. pp. 1079-1085.

  176. Mengjie Zhang, et al. ``Program Simplification in Genetic Programming for Object Classification''. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 3683. Springer. 2005. pp. 988-997.

  177. Huayang Xie. "Diversity Control in GP with ADF for Regression Tasks". Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3809. Springer. 2005. pp.1253-1257.

  178. Mengjie Zhang, Will Smart. ``Learning weights in GP using gradient descent for object classification''. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3449. Springer. 2005. pp. 417-427. ( Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

  179. Minh Duc Cao, Xiaoying Gao. "Combining Contents and Citations for Scientific Document Classification ". Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3809. Springer. 2005. pp.143-152.

  180. Dong Wang, Mengjie Zhang. "A New Approach to Multiple Class Pattern Classification with Random Matrices". Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences. Vol. 9,, No. 3, 2005. pp. 165-175.

  181. Yun Zhang, Mengjie Zhang. ``A Multiple-Output Program Tree Structure in Genetic Programming''. In R. McKay, ed., Proceedings of 2004 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming. December 2004. 12pp.

  182. Will Smart, Mengjie Zhang. ``Continuously Evolving Programs in Genetic Programming Using Gradient Descent''. In R. McKay, ed., Proceedings of 2004 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming. December 2004. 16pp.

  183. Will Smart, Mengjie Zhang. "Tracking Object Positions in Real-time Video using Genetic Programming". In Proceeding of Image and Vision Computing International Conference, 2004. pp. 113-118.

  184. Malcolm Lett, Mengjie Zhang. "New Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Object Detection". In Proceeding of Image and Vision Computing International Conference, 2004. pp. 441-446.

  185. Yun Zhang, Mengjie Zhang. "A New Program Structure in Genetic Programming for Object Classification". In Proceeding of Image and Vision Computing International Conference, 2004. pp. 459-465.

  186. Will Smart, Mengjie Zhang. "Probability Based Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object Classification". In Chengqi Zhang, Hans W. Guesgen, Wai-Kiang Yeap (Eds.): PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3157, Springer 2004. pp. 251-261.

  187. Mengjie Zhang, Bunna Ny. "False Alarm Filter in Neural Networks for Multiclass Object Detection". The Eighth Internatioanl Conference on Knowledge Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems -- Invited session of Machine and Computer Vision and Neural Networks, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3214, Springer, 2004. pp. 541-548.

  188. Xiaoying Gao, Mengjie Zhang. "A Knowledge Learning Approach to Information Extraction from Multiple Text Based Web Sites". International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools. Vol. 13, No. 3. 2004. pp. 721-738.

  189. Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae, Urvesh Bhowan. "A Two Phase Genetic Programming Approach to Object Detection". The Eighth Internatioanl Conference on Knowledge Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3215, Springer, 2004. pp. 224-231.

  190. Xiaoying Gao, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae. "Automatic Pattern Construction for Web Information Extraction". International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuziness, and Knowledge Based Systems. Vol. 12, No. 4. 2004. pp. 447-470.

  191. Mengjie Zhang, Will Smart. "Multiple Object Classification Using Genetic Programming". Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Sceince, Vol. 3005, 2004. pp. 367-376. ( Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

  192. Mengjie Zhang, Will Smart. "Genetic Programming with Gradient Descent for Multiclass Object Classification". Proceedings of the 7th European Genetic Programming Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol 3003. 2004. pp. 399-408.

  193. Mengjie Zhang, Urvesh Bhowan, "Program Size and Pixel Statistics in Genetic Programming for Object Detection". Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3005, 2004. pp. 377-386.

  194. Mengjie Zhang, Victor Ciesielski. "Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms for Domain Independent Multiclass Object Detection". International Journal on Computational Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 4, No. 1. 2004. pp.77-108.

  195. Huayang Xie, Peter Andreae, Mengjie Zhang, Paul Warren. "Learning Models for English Speech Recognition". Australian Computer Science Communications (Computer Science, CRPIT 26), Vol. 26, , No. 1. 2004. pp. 323-330.

  196. Will Smart, Mengjie Zhang. "Applying Gradient Descent Search to Genetic Programming for Object Recognition". Australian Computer Science Communications (Data mining, CRPIT 32), Vol. 26, No. 7, 2004. pp.133-138.

  197. Huayang Xie, Peter Andreae, Mengjie Zhang, Paul Warren. "Detecting Stress in Spoken English Using Decision Trees and Support Vector Machines". Australian Computer Science Communications (Data Mining, CRPIT 32), Vol. 26, No. 7, 2004. pp. 145-150.

  198. Will Smart, Mengjie Zhang. "Classification Strategies for Image Classification in Genetic Programming". Proceeding of Image and Vision Computing Conference, Palmerston North, 2003. pp. 402-407.

  199. Xiaoying Gao, Mengjie Zhang and Peter Andreae, "Learning Information Extraction Patterns from Tabular Web Pages without Manual Labelling". Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence, Halifax, Canada. 2003. pp. 495-498.

  200. Xiaoying Gao, Mengjie Zhang. "Learning Knowledge Bases for Information Extraction from Multiple Text Based Web Sites", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Halifax, Canada. 2003. pp. 119-125.

  201. Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae, Mark Pritchard, "Pixel Statistics and False Alarm Area in Genetic Programming for Object Detection", Proceeding of the European Conference on Genetic Programming for Image Analysis and Signal Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2611, 2003, pp. 455-466.

  202. Xiaoying Gao, Mengjie Zhang. "Knowledge Discovery from Text Based Web Sites", Proceedings of the Ninth Australian world Wide Web Conference, pp.400-411. Gold Coast, 5-9 July 2003.

  203. Mengjie Zhang, Victor Ciesielski, Peter Andreae, "A Domain Independent Window-Approach to Multiclass Object Detection Using Genetic Programming", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 2003, No.8, pp.841-859.

  204. Mengjie Zhang, "Object Mining in Image Data Using Neural Networks", Communications of Information and Computing Machinary, Vol. 5, No.2 (2002), pp.107-112.

  205. Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae, Roy Chow, "Pixel Statistics Based Neural Networks for Domain Independent Multiclass Object Detection", Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing, Auckland, 2002, pp. 279-284.

  206. Mengjie Zhang. A Domain Independent Approach to 2D Object Detection Based on the Neural and Genetic Paradigms. PhD Thesis, Departmentment of Computer Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2000.

  207. Mengjie Zhang and Victor Ciesielski. Genetic Programming for Multiple Class Object Detection. In Proceedings of the 12th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'99) , published in Norman Foo (Ed.) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI Vol. 1747) by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pages 180-192. Sydney, Australia, 6-10 December 1999.

  208. Mengjie Zhang and Victor Ciesielski. Using Back Propagation Algorithm and Genetic Algorithm to Train and Refine Neural Networks for Object Detection. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'99), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (LNCS Vol. 1677), Springer-Verlag, pages 626-635. Florence, Italy, August 30 - September 3, 1999.

  209. Mengjie Zhang and Victor Ciesielski. Centred Weight Initialization in Neural Networks for Object Detection. In Proceedings of the Twenty Second Australasian Computer Science Conference, page 39 - 50, Auckland, New Zealand, January 18--21 1999.

  210. Victor Ciesielski and Mengjie Zhang. Using Genetic Algorithms to Improve the Accuracy of Object Detection. In Proceedings of the third Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference, published in Ning Zhong and Lizhu Zhou (Eds.): Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining -- Research and Practical Experiences. Tsinghua University Press, page 19 - 24. Beijing, China, April 26-31, 1999.

  211. Zhang Mengjie, Liu Fengqin, Huang Lihua, Zhao Li, Yang Qing and Teng Guifa. An Environment for Knowledge Engineering with Object-Oriented Technology. In Proceedings of the Third Chinese Joint Conference on Computer Application (CJCCA'95), Publishing House of Electronics Industry. Beijing, China, October 1995.

  212. Huang Lihua, Zhang Mengjie, Kuang Pusheng and Teng guifa. Design and Implementation of Efficient Inference Engine. In Proceedings of Pacific- Asian Conference on Expert Systems, Publishing House of Electronics Industry, ISBN 7-5053-3092-6/TP.1082, pages127- 128. Huangshan, China, August 1995.

  213. Zhang Mengjie and Kuang Pusheng. An Intelligent Fault Diagnosis System. In Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Intelligent Control, Tsinghua University Press, pages 696-701. Beijing, China, August 1994.

  214. Liu Fengqin, Zhang Mengjie and Yang Qing. Design and Implementation of the Object-Oriented Knowledge Representation System. In Journal of Computer Application in Agriculture, pages 21-26, Vol. 1 , No.3, September 1993.

  215. Zhang Mengjie, Teng Quifa, Huang Lihua and Zhao Li. Object-Oriented Technology and its application to Expert Systems. In Proceedings of the first International Conference on OA & Information Management, Beijing, China, October, 1993. Published also in Journal of Office Automation (Japan), ISSN 0389-570X, pages 171-173, Vol. 14 , No.3-4, 1993.

  216. Zhang Mengjie, Yang Qing, Liu Fengqin and Kuang Pusheng. A General Tool for Building Agricultural Expert Systems Based on Intelligence Fuzzy Rules. In Proceedings of the Third Chinese Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Engineering, pages 108-113. Chengde, China, October1993.

  217. Zhang Mengjie. Study of the Inference Engine and User Interface of the Tool for Building Expert Systems with Object-Oriented Technology. Masters Thesis. Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, the Agricultural University of Hebei. Baoding, China, June 1992.

  218. Zhang Mengjie, Yang Qing, Liu Fengqin and Kuang Pusheng. The Application of Object-Oriented Technology to Agricultural Knowledge Engineering. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agricultural Engineering, International Academic Publishers, ISBN 7-80003-199-3/S125, pages VIII-38~41. Beijing, China, October 1992.

  219. Yang Qing, Liu Fengqin and Zhang Mengjie. A Tool for Building Expert Systems with Object-Oriented Technology. In Proceeding of IFAC International Workshop on Expert Systems in Agriculture, International Academic Publishers, ISBN 7-80003-202-0/S.26, pages 148-153. Huangshan, China, August 1992.

  220. Yang Qing, Zhang Mengjie and Liu Fengqin. An Environment for Agricultural Knowledge Engineering with Multiple Knowledge Bases. In Proceedings of the Second Chinese Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Engineering, pages 62-67. Hangzhou, China, October 1991.

  221. Zhang Mengjie and Liu Gang. Fault Diagnosis Expert System with Knowledge Bases of Blackboard-Frame Structure. In Journal of Hebei Agricultural University, ISSN 1000-1573, pages 73- 77, Vol. 13, No.4, 1990. Also in Proceedings of the 89 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China, November, 1989.