The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Doctor Regina Berretta
School: School of Elect Engineering and Computer Science
Personal URL: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/expertise/138362.html

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Conjoint Professor Wayne Smith;Doctor Lisa Wood;Professor John Attia;Doctor Regina Berretta;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2007 1 Hunter Medical Research Institute Project Grant Healthy Airways and Obstructive Lung Disease (HAROLD)   20000  
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Professor Rodney Scott;Professor John Rostas;Professor John Forbes;Conjoint Professor Peter Hersey;Conjoint Professor Stephen Ackland;Conjoint Professor Wayne Smith;Professor Peter Dunkley;Professor Leonie Ashman;Professor John Attia;Associate Professor Phillip Dickson;Doctor Adrienne Milward;Professor Alistair Sim;Doctor Paul Tooney;Doctor Regina Berretta;Associate Professor David Sibbritt;Conjoint Associate Professor Christopher Levi;Conjoint Associate Professor Xu Zhang;Conjoint Associate Professor Patricia Crock;Doctor Jeannette Lechner-Scott 2006 4 University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre PRC - Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine (CIBM)   288290  
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Professor Rodney Scott;Doctor Regina Berretta 2005 3 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Evolutionary algorithms for problems in functional genomics data analysis   218000  
Doctor Regina Berretta;Doctor Michael Hannaford;Associate Professor Frans Henskens;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Dr Richard Webber 2005 1 University of Newcastle Conference Establishment Grant Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW'05)   3000  
Doctor Regina Berretta 2004 1 University of Newcastle New Staff Grant Feature selection problems arising in Bioinformatics   12000  
Doctor Regina Berretta 2003 1 University of Newcastle Visitor Grant Visit by Dr Guiseppe Lancia 13/08/03 to 24/09/03   4125  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Computer Science) Co-Supervisor A Comparative Study Between Formal Concept Analysis and Other Techniques for Identifying the Genetic Profile of Diseases
PhD (Computer Science) Co-Supervisor Algorithms for the Non-Unique Probe Selection Problem Project Description
PhD (Computer Science) Co-Supervisor Graph Algorithmics for Large- Scale Visualization and Interpretation of Molecular Pathways of Cancer Cells

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
PhD 0.300

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Computer Science) 2007 Simulated Annealing-Based Hybrid Heuristics for Educational Timetabling Problems
PhD (Computer Science) 2008 An Integrated and Scalable Approach Based on Combinatorial Optimization Techniques for the Analysis of Microarray Data

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Rosso Osvaldo Anibal, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Berretta Regina Esther, Rostas John Andrew, Hunter Michael, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Distinguishing childhood absence epilepsy patients from controls by the analysis of their background brain electrical activity (II): A combinatorial optimization approach for electrode selection’, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 181 257-267 (2009) [C1]

De Oliveira L K, Berretta Regina Esther, ’An approach based on langranian relaxation and the taboo search for the multi-stage lot sizing problem’, GEPROS: Gestao da Producao, Operacoes e Sistemas, 4 77-93 (2007) [C1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Berretta Regina Esther, ’Benchmarking a Memetic Algorithm for Ordering Microarray Data’, Biosystems, 88 56-75 (2007) [C1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Selection of discriminative genes in microarray experiments using mathematical programming’, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 39 287-299 (2007) [C1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Franca P M, Armentano V A, ’Metaheuristic approaches for the multilevel resource-constrained lot-sizing problem with setup and lead times’, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 22 261-286 (2005) [C1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Luiz Fernando Rodrigues, ’A memetic algorithm for a multistage capacitated lot-sizing problem’, International journal of production economics, 87 67-81 (2004) [C1]

Chapter in Book

Ravetti Martin Gomez, Berretta Regina Esther, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Novel biomarkers for prostate cancer revealed by ([alpha, beta]) -k-feature sets’, Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 5: Functional Approximation and Classification, Springer, Berlin, 149-175 (2009) [B1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Costa Wagner Emanoel, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Combinatorial optimization models for finding genetic signatures from gene expression datasets’, Bioinformatics, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 363-377 (2008) [B1]

Hourani Mou'Ath Adeib, Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Genetic signatures for a rodent model of Parkinson's disease using combinatorial optimization methods’, Bioinformatics, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 379-392 (2008) [B1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Carlos Cotta, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Enhancing the performance of memetic algorithms by using a matching-based recombination algorithm’, Metaheuristics: Computer Decision-Making, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 719 (2004) [B1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Carlos Cotta, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Enhancing the performance of Memetic Algorithms by using a Matching-Based Recombination Algorithm’, Maetaheuristics: Computer Decision Making, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 65-90 (2003) [B1]

Conference Publication

Berretta Regina Esther, Giggins Helen Patricia, ’Online support material for computer science honours program using Blackboard’, Proceedings 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Beijing, China (2009) [E1]

Tuga Mauritsius, Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, ’A hybrid simulated annealing with kempe chain neighborhood for the university timetabling problem’, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, Melbourne (2007) [E1]

Inostroza-Ponta Mario, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Berretta Regina Esther, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’An integrated QAP-based approach to visualize patterns of gene expression similarity’, Progress in Artificial Life, Gold Coast, QLD (2007) [E1]

Hourani Mou'Ath Adeib, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Berretta Regina Esther, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Genetic biomarkers for brain hemisphere differentiation in Parkinson's Disease’, Computational Models for Life Sciences (CMLS '07): 2007 International Symposium. Conference Proceedings, Gold Coast, QLD (2007) [E1]

Cox M, Bowden Nikola Ann, Moscato Pablo Alberto, Berretta Regina Esther, Scott Rodney, ’Memetic algorithms as a new method to interpret gene expression profiles in multiple sclerosis’, Multiple Sclerosis (Abstracts of the 23rd Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis and the 12th Annual Conference of Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis), Prague, Czech Republic (2007) [E3]

Inostroza-Ponta Mario, Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’An automatic graph layout procedure to visualize correlated data’, Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice, Santiago, Chile (2006) [E1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, ’A New Memetic Algorithm for Ordering Datasets: Applications in Microarray Analysis’, Proceedings of MIC2005, Vienna, Austria (2005) [E2]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Berretta Regina Esther, Hourani Mou'Ath Adeib, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Cotta Carlos, ’Genes related with Alzheimer's disease: A comparison of evolutionary search, statistical and integer programming approaches’, Applications on Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkkshops 2005: EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC, Lausanne, Switzerland (2005) [E1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Cotta C, Hourani Mou'Ath Adeib, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Hacia una Mejor Compresion del Perfil Genetico de la Enfermedad de Alzheimer a Traves de Metaheuristicas’, Proceedings of the MAEB2005, Granada, Spain (2005) [E2]

Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Integer Programming Models and Algorithms for Molecular Classification of Cancer from Microarray Data’, Proceedings of the twenty eighth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2005) Newcastle, Australia, January, 2005, Newcastle, N.S.W (2005) [E1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Mathieson Luke, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Berretta Regina Esther, ’The Electronic Primaries: Predicting the U.S. Presidency Using Feature Selection with Safe Data Reduction’, Proceedings of the twenty eighth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2005) Newcastle, Australia, January, 2005, Newcastle, N.S.W (2005) [E1]

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