Research activities

I have been working toward my PhD at Exeter since September 2008, investigating rank-based multi- and many-objective optimisation techniques with Richard Everson and Jonathan Fieldsend, looking at techniques for optimising with many objectives, and visualising the results. The project is a case studentship with Motorola.

I graduated from Exeter in 2007 with a first-class degree in Computer Science, winning the Informatics Research Institute award for best project, for a project which involved the construction of a recommender system for an e-commerce website.

Publications

Forthcoming

Walker, DJ., Everson, RM. and Fieldsend JE. (2011): Rank-based Dimension Reduction for Many-criteria Populations, GECCO 2011, Dublin

McClymont, K., Walker, D., Keedwell, K., Everson, R., Fieldsend J., Savic, D. and Randall-Smith, M. (2011): Novel Methods for Ranking District Metered Areas for Water Distribution Network Maintenance Scheduling, CCWI 2011, Exeter

Conference Publications

Walker, DJ., Everson, RM. and Fieldsend JE. (2010): Ordering and Visualisation of Many-objective Populations, IEEE CEC 2010, Barcelona

Walker, DJ., Everson, RM. and Fieldsend, JE. (2010): Ordering Multi-objective Populations with the Power Index, PCCAT 2010, Exeter

Teaching activities

This year (2010-2011) I am involved in delivering workshops for the following modules:

• ECM1406 Data Structures and Team Project
• ECM3403 Compilers and Interpreters
• ECM3408 Enterprise Computing

I have also worked on workshops for ECM1401 Programming and ECM2407 Information Systems.

Contact Details

Email:	D.J.Walker@exeter.ac.uk (you will need to add @exeter.ac.uk in your mail client).
Address:	Room 250 Harrison Building North Park Road University of Exeter Exeter Devon EX4 4QF
Telephone:	+44 (0)1392 264059