The collaboration between our institute and the Enterprise Application Development (EAD) group of Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz (HZG, Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz) in Görlitz, Germany has a long tradition. Together, we have analyzed several classical optimization problems from logistics and scheduling, including scheduling against due dates and windows as well as the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). We also jointly contributed works on Evolutionary Computational in general. An important aspect of our work always the benchmarking of optimization algorithms. We work together on the TSP Suite, a framework for implementing and comparing algorithms for the TSP.
Delegations from the EAD have visited us in China in 2013 (Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig), 2015 (Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig, Dr. Abhishek Awasti), and 2017 (Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig, Mr. Markus Ullrich). During their 2017 visit, Prof. Lässig and Mr. Ullrich gave two interesting guest lectures on "Understanding Quantum Computing - Computing Model and Algorithms" and "An Application Meta-Model to Support the Execution and Benchmarking of Scientific Applications in Multi-Cloud Environments," in our faculty, respectively. In turn, and Prof. Weise has visited the EAD in 2016 and 2017, both times giving research talks as well.
Prof. Lässig is a co-chair of our International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA 2018) and a co-editor of our Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms. Mr. Ullrich has joined the program committees of both of our 2018 Black-Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking Workshops, namely BB-DOB@GECCO and BB-DOB@PPSN.
News
- Collaboration between our Institute and the Enterprise Application Development Group of the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz Presented at Project Funding Conference of the Saxon Parliament
- Black-Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB@PPSN) Workshop
- Black-Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB@GECCO) Workshop
- Welcome to Guest Researchers Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig and Mr. Markus Ullrich
- Research Talk "Understanding Quantum Computing - Computing Model and Algorithms" by Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig at Hefei University
- Research Talk "An Application Meta-Model to Support the Execution and Benchmarking of Scientific Applications in Multi-Cloud Environments" by Mr. Markus Ullrich at Hefei University
- Submission Deadline Extended to December 1, 2017: International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA)
- Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms in the Computational Intelligence Journal
- Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms approved for the Computational Intelligence Journal
- International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA)
- Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms approved for ICACI 2018
- Welcome to Guest Researchers Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig and Mr. Markus Ullrich from the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz [2017/11]
- Research Talk "Automating Scientific Research in Optimization" by Prof. Thomas Weise at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz in Görlitz, Germany
Co-Organized Events
Thomas Weise, Bin Li, Markus Wagner, Xingyi Zhang, and Jörg Lässig, eds. Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms published in the Applied Soft Computing journal published by Elsevier B.V. and indexed by EI and SCIE. The special issue was open for submissions from July 2018 and closed in April 14, 2019. It is a virtual special issues, where papers will be published as soon as they are accepted.
website / CfP-website / Call for Papers (CfP)Thomas Weise, Bin Li, Markus Wagner, Xingyi Zhang, and Jörg Lässig. International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA) at the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), March 29-31, 2018 in Xiamen [厦门], Fujian [福建省], China, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-5386-4362-4.
website / Call for Papers (CfP)Thomas Weise and Jörg Lässig. SITA-UBRI Joint Workshop on Sustainable Logistics, November 5, 2015, Hefei, Anhui, China
Thomas Weise and Jörg Lässig. Special Session on Benchmarking and Testing for Production and Logistics Optimization of the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics at the 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2014), December 9-12, 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA
Thomas Weise, Jörg Lässig, Alexandre Devert, and Yi Mei. Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning (SELP) of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics at the 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2013), April 15-19, 2013, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore
Joint Publications
Thomas Weise, Zhize Wu, Xinlu Li, Yan Chen, and Jörg Lässig. Frequency Fitness Assignment: Optimization without Bias for Good Solutions can be Efficient. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC). 2022. Early Access.
doi:10.1109/TEVC.2022.3191698 / preprint@arxiv / data and source code @ doi:10.5281/zenodo.5567725.
Indexing: SCI, EI, 1区, CCF-B类Tianyu Liang, Zhize Wu, Jörg Lässig, Daan van den Berg, and Thomas Weise. Solving the Traveling Salesperson Problem using Frequency Fitness Assignment. In Hisao Ishibuchi, Chee-Keong Kwoh, Ah-Hwee Tan, Dipti Srinivasan, Chunyan Miao, Anupam Trivedi, and Keeley A. Crockett, editors, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (IEEE FOCI'22), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2022). December 4–7, 2022, Singapore, pages 360–367. IEEE.
doi:10.1109/SSCI51031.2022.10022296
Indexing: EI.Thomas Weise, Markus Wagner, Bin Li, Xingyi Zhang, and Jörg Lässig. Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms in the Applied Soft Computing Journal (Editorial). Applied Soft Computing Journal (ASOC) 93:106502. August 2020.
doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2020.106502
Indexing: EI, WOS, ESCI, 1区Markus Ullrich, Thomas Weise, Abhishek Awasthi, and Jörg Lässig. A Generic Problem Instance Generator for Discrete Optimization Problems. In Black Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB) Workshop of Companion Material Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018), July 15th-19th 2018, Kyoto, Japan, pages 1761-1768, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5764-7. ACM.
doi:10.1145/3205651.3208284 / pdf / slides / source codes / workshop website
Indexing: EI, CCF-C类Abhishek Awasthi, Jörg Lässig, Thomas Weise, and Oliver Kramer. Tackling Common Due Window Problem with a Two-Layered Approach. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA 2016), Hong Kong, China, December 16–18, 2016, volume 10043 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS), pages 772-781, Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN: 978-3-319-48748-9 (print), 978-3-319-48749-6 (online)
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48749-6_59
Indexing: EI:20165203192912Thomas Weise, Yuezhong Wu, Raymond Chiong, Ke Tang, and Jörg Lässig. Global versus Local Search: The Impact of Population Sizes on Evolutionary Algorithm Performance. Journal of Global Optimization 66(3):511-534, November 2016.
doi:10.1007/s10898-016-0417-5 / pdf
Indexing: EI:20160902030834, WOS:000386373700007, SCI, 2区Abhishek Awashi, Jörg Lässig, Jens Leuschner, and Thomas Weise. GPGPU-based Parallel Algorithms for Scheduling Against Due Date. In Proceedings of 6th IEEE Workshop on Parallel Computing and Optimization (PCO'16), Chicago, IL, USA, May 23-27, 2016, pages 766-775. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Computer Society. ISBN: 978-1-5090-3682-0
doi:10.1109/IPDPSW.2016.66 / pdf
Indexing: EI:20164302934880, WOS:000391253600089Dan Xu, Thomas Weise, Yuezhong Wu, Jörg Lässig, and Raymond Chiong. An Investigation of Hybrid Tabu Search for the Traveling Salesman Problem. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing – Theories and Applications (BIC-TA'15), Maoguo Gong, Linqiang Pan, Tao Song, Ke Tang, and Xingyi Zhang, editors, September 25-28, 2015, Hefei, Anhui, China, volume 562 of Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pages 523-537, ISBN 978-3-662-49013-6.
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-49014-3_47 / pdf
Indexing: EI:20160300001756, WOS:000369890300047Yan Jiang, Thomas Weise, Jörg Lässig, Raymond Chiong, and Rukshan Athauda. Comparing a Hybrid Branch and Bound Algorithm with Evolutionary Computation Methods, Local Search and their Hybrids on the TSP. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS'14), Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI'14), Orlando, FL, USA: Caribe Royale All-Suite Hotel and Convention Center, December 9-12, 2014, pages 148-155. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN 978-1-4799-5375-2.
doi:10.1109/CIPLS.2014.7007174 / pdf
Indexing: EI:20150700522268, WOS:000380487400021Abhishek Awasthi, Jörg Lässig, Oliver Kramer, and Thomas Weise. Common Due-Window Problem: Polynomial Algorithms for a Given Processing Sequence. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS'14), Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI'14), pages 32-39, Orlando, FL, USA: Caribe Royale All-Suite Hotel and Convention Center, December 9–12, 2014. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press.
doi:10.1109/CIPLS.2014.7007158 / pdf
Indexing: EI:20150700522279, WOS:000380487400005Thomas Weise, Raymond Chiong, Ke Tang, Jörg Lässig, Shigeyoshi Tsutsui, Wenxiang Chen, Zbigniew Michalewicz, and Xin Yao. Benchmarking Optimization Algorithms: An Open Source Framework for the Traveling Salesman Problem. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM), 9(3):40-52, August 2014.
Featured article and selected paper at the website of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (http://cis.ieee.org/).
doi:10.1109/MCI.2014.2326101 / pdf
Indexing: EI:20143117995681, WOS:000340271800004, SCI, 1区, Google Scholar
