My research is located in the domains of optimization and multi-agent systems. In both domains, I look into detecting a problem's structure and using this knowledge to improve a system's performance - currently through local coordination in multi-agent systems and discrete recombination in evolution strategies.

• My EUMAS 2011 paper was selected as candidate for a “selected and revised papers' book” published by Springer. Notification follows April 30th. http://swarmlab.unimaas.nl/eumas2011/post-proceedings/

Refereed Workshop

[2012, inproceedings | bibTeX]

T. Brys, Y.-M. De Hauwere, M. De Cock, and A. Nowé, "Solving Satisfiability in Fuzzy Logics with Evolution Strategies," in Proc. NAFIPS [Accepted], 2012.

[2012, inproceedings | bibTeX]

T. Brys and A. Nowé, "Improving convergence of CMA-ES through structure-driven discrete recombination," in Proc. AAAI [Accepted], 2012.

[2011, inproceedings | bibTeX]

T. Brys, Y.-M. De Hauwere, A. Nowé, and P. Vrancx, "Local Coordination in Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems," in Proc. The 9th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2011.

Technical reports

[2011, mastersthesis | bibTeX]

T. Brys, "Local Coordination and Adaptive Strategies in Robot Soccer," Master's Dissertation , Belgium, 2011.