We happily bid our welcome to Mr. Raphaël Cosson, who just started his Master's research project "Algorithm Selection for Discrete Black-Box Optimization Problems" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Carola Doerr and co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Thomas Weise. Mr. Cosson will conduct his research at the Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) of the Sorbonne University in Paris, France during Summer 2019. His work is at the intersection of algorithm configuration, algorithm benchmarking, and the theory of optimization. As basis for his research, he will use and extend the Iterative Optimization Heuristics Profiler (IOHprofiler), an awesome tool for benchmarking and evaluating optimization algorithms, in conjunction with the tunable benchmark model developed at our group. We are looking forward to an interesting and productive collaboration.

  • Carola Doerr, Hao Wang, Furong Ye, Sander van Rijn, and Thomas Bäck. IOHprofiler: A Benchmarking and Profiling Tool for Iterative Optimization Heuristics. October 2018. arXiv e-prints:1810.05281.
    pdf / IOHprofiler / sources
  • Thomas Weise and Zijun Wu. Difficult Features of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and the Tunable W-Model Benchmark Problem for Simulating them. In Companion Material Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018), July 15-19 2018, Kyoto, Japan, pages 1769-1776, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5764-7. ACM.
    doi:10.1145/3205651.3208240 / pdf / slides / source codes