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Technical stream

The set of papers for the technical stream begins with An Improved Hybrid Genetic Algorithm: New Results for the Quadratic Assignment Problem by A. Misevicius (Department of Practical Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania), which describes an improved hybrid genetic algorithm which has successfully been applied to a well-known combinatorial optimisation problem, the ‘quadratic assignment problem’. This paper won the prize for the best refereed technical paper, which was once

Application stream

The papers from the application stream begin with Design-a-Trial: A Rule-Based Decision Support System for Clinical Trial Design by K Nammuni, C Pickering (InferMed Ltd), S Modgil (University College, London), A Montgomery (InferMed Ltd), P Hammond (University College, London), JC Wyatt (National Institute for Clinical Excellence), DG Altman (Centre for Statistics in Medicine), R Dunlop (InferMed Ltd) and H Potts (Kings College, London). The paper describes an expert system that assists the

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