Alistair Benford
I am a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where I am investigating the theory of coevolutionary computing with a team led by Per Kristian Lehre. Prior to this, I undertook a PhD in Pure Mathematics as part of Birmingham's Combinatorics, Probability and Algorithms group, where I was a student of Richard Montgomery. Between 2015 and 2019 I completed an MMath at the University of Cambridge.
Email: A [dot] S [dot] Benford [at] bham [dot] ac [dot] uk
Research
Runtime analysis of coevolutionary algorithms on a class of symmetric zero-sum gamesAlistair Benford, Per Kristian LehreProceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2024
Bicriteria optimisation of average and worst-case performance using coevolutionary algorithmsAlistair Benford, Markus Olhofer, Tobias Rodemann, Per Kristian LehreProceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2024
Unavoidable structures in infinite tournaments Alistair Benford, Louis DeBiasio, Paul Larson
Trees with many leaves in tournamentsAlistair Benford, Richard Montgomery
Trees with few leaves in tournamentsAlistair Benford, Richard MontgomeryJournal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 2022
On the appearance of oriented trees in tournamentsPhD thesis, University of Birmingham, 2023
Runtime analysis of coevolutionary algorithms on a class of symmetric zero-sum gamesAlistair Benford, Per Kristian LehreProceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2024
Bicriteria optimisation of average and worst-case performance using coevolutionary algorithmsAlistair Benford, Markus Olhofer, Tobias Rodemann, Per Kristian LehreProceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2024
Unavoidable structures in infinite tournaments Alistair Benford, Louis DeBiasio, Paul Larson
Trees with many leaves in tournamentsAlistair Benford, Richard Montgomery
Trees with few leaves in tournamentsAlistair Benford, Richard MontgomeryJournal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 2022
On the appearance of oriented trees in tournamentsPhD thesis, University of Birmingham, 2023