University of Adelaide

Our institute collaborates with researchers from The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia in various ways for several years.

Associate Professor Dr. Markus Wagner organized several workshops with us, including (BOCIA'18, BB-DOB@GECCO'18, BB-DOB@PPSN'18), BEADO'19Good, BENCHMARK@PPSN'20, BENCHMARK@GECCO'20, and BOCIA'21, as well as a journal special issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms. He has visited us for two research stays in 2017 and 2018, during which we collaborated on several topics. In his 2017 visit, he also gave two presentations. and in 2021, Prof. Weise gave a guest lesson on "Comparing Optimization Algorithm" in his course "Evolutionary Computation."

For several years, we have also collaborated with Prof. Dr. Zbigniew Michalewicz with whom Prof. Weise co-edited the book Variants of Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Applications (ISBN: 978-3-642-23423-1, Springer, 2012, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23424-8). Prof. Weise is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Prof. Michalewicz' company Complexica, an Artificial Intelligence software company that helps large organizations sell more products and services, and reduce their labor costs and headcount through the use of automated analytics. Complexica is a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for optimizing sales & marketing activities, ranging from promotional planning, pricing, and product mix optimization, through to sales force automation, CRM, and multi-channel quoting and order processing.

News

• Guest Lecture "Comparing Optimization Algorithm" at the University of Adelaide
• Special Session on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA'21)
• Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation (BENCHMARK@GECCO) Workshop
• Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation (BENCHMARK@PPSN) Workshop
• Special Session on Benchmarking of Evolutionary Algorithms for Discrete Optimization (BEADO)
• Our paper "An Improved Generic Bet-and-Run Strategy with Performance Prediction for Stochastic Local Search" has been accepted at AAAI 2019
• Welcome to Guest Researcher Dr. Markus Wagner (2018)
• Black-Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB@PPSN) Workshop
• Black-Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB@GECCO) Workshop
• Submission Deadline Extended to December 1, 2017: International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA)
• Research Talk "Two Real-World Optimisation Problems Related to Energy" by Dr. Markus Wagner at Hefei University
• Research Talk "Approximation-Guided Many-Objective Optimisation and the Travelling Thief Problem" by Dr. Markus Wagner at Anhui University
• Welcome to Guest Researcher Dr. Markus Wagner (2017)
• Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms in the Applied Soft Computing Journal
• Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms approved for the Applied Soft Computing Journal
• International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA)
• Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms approved for ICACI 2018

Co-Organized Events

• Thomas Weise, Aleš Zamuda, and Markus Wagner. Special Session on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA'21) at the 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021), June 28-July 1, 2021 in Kraków, Poland
  website / Call for Papers (CfP)

• Thomas Bäck, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Jakob Bossek, Bilel Derbel, Carola Doerr, Tome Eftimov, Pascal Kerschke, William La Cava, Arnaud Liefooghe, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Boris Naujoks, Pietro S. Oliveto, Patryk Orzechowski, Mike Preuss, Jérémy Rapin, Ofer M. Shir, Olivier Teytaud, Heike Trautmann, Ryan J. Urbanowicz, Vanessa Volz, Markus Wagner, Hao Wang, Thomas Weise, Borys Wróbel, and Aleš Zamuda. Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation (BENCHMARK@PPSN) Workshop at the Sixteenth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XVI), September 5-9, 2020 in Leiden, The Netherlands.
  website / Call for Papers (CfP)

• Thomas Bäck, Carola Doerr, Tome Eftimov, Pascal Kerschke, William La Cava, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Boris Naujoks, Pietro S. Oliveto, Patryk Orzechowski, Mike Preuss, Jérémy Rapin, Ofer M. Shir, Olivier Teytaud, Heike Trautmann, Ryan J. Urbanowicz, Vanessa Volz, Markus Wagner, Hao Wang, Thomas Weise, Borys Wróbel, and Aleš Zamuda. Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation (BENCHMARK@GECCO) Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020), July 8-12, 2020, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
  website / Call for Papers (CfP) / slides@google: 1,2,3 / slides@iao: 1,3

• Markus Wagner, Thomas Weise, and Aleš Zamuda. Special Session on Benchmarking of Evolutionary Algorithms for Discrete Optimization (BEADO) at the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'19), June 10-13, 2019 in Wellington, New Zealand.
  website / Call for Papers (CfP)

• 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)

• Pietro S. Oliveto, Markus Wagner, Thomas Weise, Borys Wróbel, and Aleš Zamuda. Black-Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB@PPSN) Workshop at the Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XV), 8-9 September 2018, Coimbra, Portugal
  website / Call for Papers (CfP)

• Pietro S. Oliveto, Markus Wagner, Thomas Weise, Borys Wróbel, and Aleš Zamuda. Black-Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB@GECCO) Workshop at the 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018), July 15-19, 2018 in Kyoto, Japan
  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)

Joint Publications

• 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

• Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Carola Doerr, Daan van den Berg, Jakob Bossek, Sowmya Chandrasekaran, Tome Eftimov, Andreas Fischbach, Pascal Kerschke, William La Cava, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Katherine M. Malan, Jason H. Moore, Boris Naujoks, Patryk Orzechowski, Vanessa Volz, Markus Wagner, Thomas Weise. Benchmarking in Optimization: Best Practice and Open Issues. Technical report available at arXiv:2007.03488v2 [cs.NE] 16 Dec 2020.
  pdf / pdf@arxiv

• Thomas Weise, Zijun Wu, and Markus Wagner. An Improved Generic Bet-and-Run Strategy with Performance Prediction for Stochastic Local Search. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019), January 27 – February 1, 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pages 2395–2402. Palo Alto, CA, USA: AAAI Press. ISBN: 978-1-57735-809-1
  doi:10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33012395 / pdf@IAO / pdf@AAAI / slides / poster / blog 1 / blog 2 / early preprint@arxiv
  Indexing: CCF-A类, EI

• Thomas 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

• Raymond Chiong, Thomas Weise, and Zbigniew Michalewicz, editors. Variants of Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Applications. ISBN: 978-3-642-23423-1, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2012.
  doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23424-8
  Indexing: EI:20172603850806

• Christian Blum, Raymond Chiong, Maurice Clerc, Kenneth Alan De Jong, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Ferrante Neri, and Thomas Weise. Evolutionary Optimization. In Raymond Chiong, Thomas Weise, and Zbigniew Michalewicz, editors, Variants of Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Applications, chapter 1, pages 1-29. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2012.
  doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23424-8_1 / pdf
  Indexing: EI:20172603850808

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