Department of Computer Science · Stellenbosch University

Publications & Scholarly Output

A curated look at our research contributions to the global computer science community — from top-tier journal articles to conference proceedings and book chapters.

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NeurIPS IEEE Transactions ACM Computing Surveys ICALP GECCO TACAS Information Sciences Theoretical Computer Science SAICSIT Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence LNCS (Springer)
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Selected Publications

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2025
Journal

Deep reinforcement learning for multi-objective satellite task scheduling

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 61, pp. 230–248

2025
Conference

Swarm-based neural architecture search for low-resource image classification

Proceedings of GECCO 2025, ACM, pp. 422–431

2024
Journal

Particle swarm optimisation with adaptive inertia weight for radio interferometric calibration

Information Sciences, Vol. 658, pp. 120–138

2024
Conference

Cognitive robotics with evolutionary planning in partially observable environments

IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2024)

2023
Journal

A survey of meta-heuristic algorithms for deep learning training

ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 55, No. 12, Article 254

2025
Journal

Descriptional complexity of symmetric difference NFAs revisited

Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 1012, Article 114762

2024
Conference

Cellular automata for adaptive textile pattern generation

Proceedings of ICALP 2024, LNCS Vol. 14132, Springer, pp. 98–112

2023
Journal

Probabilistic automata for algorithmic music generation: A South African case study

Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 210–227

2022
Conference

Automatic grammar correction for under-resourced languages using weighted finite-state transducers

SAICSIT 2022, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer

2025
Conference

Concurrency-aware symbolic execution with COASTAL 2.0

Proceedings of TACAS 2025, LNCS, Springer

2024
Journal

Efficient bounded model checking for multi-threaded C programs using CSeq

Formal Methods in System Design, Vol. 62, pp. 44–78

2023
Journal

Fuzzing meets symbolic execution: A hybrid approach using ESBMC for IoT firmware

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 3902–3918

2025
Conference

Multilingual transformer fine-tuning for isiXhosa and Afrikaans sentiment analysis

ACL 2025, Association for Computational Linguistics

2024
Journal

Named entity recognition for South African legal texts using pre-trained language models

Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 612–633

2023
Conference

Cross-lingual text classification for Nguni languages with multilingual BERT

LREC-COLING 2023

2025
Journal

Anomaly detection in SKA radio telescope data streams using graph neural networks

Astronomy and Computing, Vol. 48, Article 100842

2024
Conference

Predictive modelling of crop yields in the Western Cape using geospatial machine learning

Proceedings of KDD 2024, ACM, Applied Data Science Track

2022
Journal

A framework for interactive public health dashboards using South African COVID-19 surveillance data

Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol. 130, Article 104090

2024
Conference

QoS-aware routing in software-defined broadband networks for rural South Africa

IEEE AFRICON 2024

2023
Journal

Energy-efficient mobile edge computing for 5G-enabled IoT applications

Computer Networks, Vol. 231, Article 109812

Output Over The Years

Our trajectory shows consistent, growing research output across all groups.

122018
172019
192020
212021
242022
292023
342024
16*2025

* 2025 publications as of March 2026 (partial year data).

Publications by Research Area

How our scholarly output is distributed across our 7 active research groups.

Machine Learning & AI
48
Automata & Languages
30
Software Engineering
25
NLP
20
Data Science
14
Networks
8
Robotics
4
Publishing in top venues isn't just about prestige — it's about ensuring our research reaches the people who can build on it, apply it, and ultimately improve lives. From Stellenbosch, we're contributing to a global conversation.
— Prof. A.P. Engelbrecht, Research Chair in Computational Intelligence

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