Edited Journal Special Issues, Books and Conference Proceedings

  • Mengjie Zhang, Gustavo Olague, Monica Mordonini, Luca Mussi. Special Issue on Evolutionary Image Analysis and Signal Processing, Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications. 2010 (to appear)
  • Mengjie Zhang, Michael Kirley, Xiaodong Li. Special Issue on "Evolutionary Optimization and Learning", Journal of Soft Computing, 2010. (to appear).
  • Michael Kirley, Mengjie Zhang, and Xiaodong Li Special Issue on "Simulated Evolution and Learning", Journal of Evolutionary Intelligence, Vol.2, 2009.
  • 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.
  • 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

Refereed Book Chapters

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Ammar Mohemmad, Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang. "A PSO Based AdaBoost Approach to Object Detection". Soft Computing. 2010. (to appear)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Mengjie Zhang. "Improving Object Detection Performance with Genetic Programming". International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. Vol. 16, No. 5, 2007. pp. 849-873.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Xiaoli Ma, Guifa Teng, Mengjie Zhang. "Carbon Potential Prediction Using Genetic Programming". Control and Automation. Vol. 23, No. 9. 2007. pp.239-241.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Refereed papers in Conference Proceedings

  • Urvesh Bhowan, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data". Proceeding of the 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming. Istanbul, Turkey. 2010. Springer. (To appear)
  • Mark Johnston, Thomas Liddle, Mengjie Zhang. "A Relaxed Approach to Simplification in Genetic Programming". Proceeding of the 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming. Istanbul, Turkey. 2010. Springer. (To appear)
  • David Kinzett, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston. "Analysis of Building Blocks with Numerical Simplification in Genetic Programming". Proceeding of the 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming. Istanbul, Turkey. 2010. Springer. (To appear)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. (To appear)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Mengjie Zhang, Malcolm Lett. "Localisation Fitness in GP for Object Detection". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3907. Springer. 2006. pp.472-483.
  • Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae. "Population Clustering in Genetic Programming ". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3905. Springer. 2006. pp.190-201.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Christopher Fogelberg, Mengjie Zhang. "Linear Genetic Programming for Multi-class Object Classification". Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3809. Springer. 2005. pp.369-379.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Mengjie Zhang, et al. ``Program Simplification in Genetic Programming for Object Classification''. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 3683. Springer. 2005. pp. 988-997.
  • Huayang Xie. "Diversity Control in GP with ADF for Regression Tasks". Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3809. Springer. 2005. pp.1253-1257.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.