About Cândida Ferreira

 


Cândida Ferreira studied Biochemistry at Kharkov University (1985-1990) in the former USSR and received her Ph.D. from Lisbon University in Biology in 1995. She joined the Department of Agricultural Sciences at The Azores University in 1994, where she was Assistant Professor of Biochemistry since 1995 till October 2001. She invented the revolutionary Gene Expression Programming technique in 1999 and in 2000 co-founded Gepsoft to develop and commercialize mathematical modeling software based on the GEP technique. She now works full time at Gepsoft as Director and Chief Scientist. Her research spans the interplay between molecular biology, evolution, and machine learning.

 

Contact | Books | Papers | Tutorials | Interviews | Patents


Address:
Dr. Cândida Ferreira
Gepsoft Limited
73 Elmtree Drive
Bristol BS13 8NA
United Kingdom

tel: +44 (0) 117 330 92 72
Email: candidaf@gepsoft.com or candidaf@gene-expression-programming.com

If you have any GEP questions, please feel free to join me at the Gepsoft Forum where I’m active answering all kinds of questions relating to GeneXproTools, which of course also include questions about GEP.


Books:

1. Ferreira, C., 2006. Gene Expression Programming:
Mathematical Modeling by an Artificial Intelligence
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2nd Edition, Springer-Verlag, Germany. More...
   
2. Ferreira, C., 2002. Gene Expression Programming:
Mathematical Modeling by an Artificial Intelligence
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Angra do Heroismo, Portugal. Online version

 


Papers:

1. Ferreira, C., 2001. Gene Expression Programming: A New Adaptive Algorithm for Solving Problems. Complex Systems, Vol. 13, issue 2: 87-129. paper

(You can also download the pdf of the first public version of this paper, published on the internet November 14, 2000: the English version and the Portuguese translation.)

2. Ferreira, C., 2001. Gene Expression Programming in Problem Solving, invited tutorial of the 6th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, September 10-24, 2001. paper

3. Ferreira, C., Mutation, Transposition, and Recombination: An Analysis of the Evolutionary Dynamics. In H. J. Caulfield, S.-H. Chen, H.-D. Cheng, R. Duro, V. Honavar, E. E. Kerre, M. Lu, M. G. Romay, T. K. Shih, D. Ventura, P. P. Wang, Y. Yang, eds., Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, 4th International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms, pages 614-617, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, 2002. paper

4. Ferreira, C., Discovery of the Boolean Functions to the Best Density-Classification Rules Using Gene Expression Programming. In E. Lutton, J. A. Foster, J. Miller, C. Ryan, and A. G. B. Tettamanzi, eds., Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2002, volume 2278 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 51-60, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2002. paper

5. Ferreira, C., Gene Expression Programming in Problem Solving. In R. Roy, M. Köppen, S. Ovaska, T. Furuhashi, and F. Hoffmann, eds., Soft Computing and Industry: Recent Applications, pages 635-654, Springer-Verlag, 2002 (shorter version of the invited tutorial presented at the 6th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, September 10-24, 2001). paper

6. Ferreira, C., Combinatorial Optimization by Gene Expression Programming: Inversion Revisited. In J. M. Santos and A. Zapico, eds., Proceedings of the Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, pages 160-174, Santa Fe, Argentina, 2002. paper

7. Ferreira, C., Function Finding and the Creation of Numerical Constants in Gene Expression Programming. 7th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, September 23 - October 4, 2002. paper

8. Ferreira, C., Analyzing the Founder Effect in Simulated Evolutionary Processes Using Gene Expression Programming. In A. Abraham, J. Ruiz-del-Solar, and M. Köppen (eds), Soft Computing Systems: Design, Management and Applications, pp. 153-162, IOS Press, Netherlands, 2002. paper

9. Ferreira, C., 2002. Genetic Representation and Genetic Neutrality in Gene Expression Programming. Advances in Complex Systems, 5 (4): 389-408. paper

10. Ferreira, C., Function Finding and the Creation of Numerical Constants in Gene Expression Programming. In J. M. Benitez, O. Cordon, F. Hoffmann, and R. Roy, eds., Advances in Soft Computing: Engineering Design and Manufacturing, pages 257-266, Springer-Verlag, 2003 (shorter version of the paper presented at the 7th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, September 23 – October 4, 2002). paper

11. Ferreira, C., Gene Expression Programming and the Evolution of Computer Programs. In Leandro N. de Castro and Fernando J. Von Zuben, eds., Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing, pages 82-103, Idea Group Publishing, 2004. paper

12. Ferreira, C., Designing Neural Networks Using Gene Expression Programming. 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, September 20 - October 8, 2004. paper

13. Ferreira, C., Automatically Defined Functions in Gene Expression Programming. In N. Nedjah, L. de M. Mourelle, A. Abraham, eds., Genetic Systems Programming: Theory and Experiences, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 13, pp. 21-56, Springer-Verlag, 2006. paper

14. Ferreira, C., Designing Neural Networks Using Gene Expression Programming. In A. Abraham, B. de Baets, M. Köppen, and B. Nickolay, eds., Applied Soft Computing Technologies: The Challenge of Complexity, pages 517-536, Springer-Verlag, 2006 (this is the revised version of the paper presented at the 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, September 20 - October 8, 2004). paper
 


Online Tutorials:

1. Ferreira, C. "A Quick Introduction to Gene Expression Programming." From GEP Tutorials: A Gepsoft Web Resource. Tutorial

2. Ferreira, C. "Karva Notation and K-Expressions." From GEP Tutorials: A Gepsoft Web Resource. Tutorial

 


Interviews:

1. An Interview with Cândida Ferreira on Gene Expression Programming. By Kim Patch for Technology Research News (26.03.2001). Interview

2. An Interview with Cândida Ferreira on Gene Expression Programming (in Portuguese). By Ricardo Carvalho for ALAGAMARES (23.09.2006). Interview

 


Patents:

1. Ferreira, C. 2000. Processo de Expressão Genética para resolver problemas tais como optimização, descoberta de funções, planeamento e síntese lógica. Portuguese Patent Application No 102508 filed August 10, 2000. Issued March 31, 2005.



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