Connections to the Industry
Memberships in Societies
- China Computer Federation (CCF) [中国计算机学会] (Member since 2012)
- The Benchmarking Network (Member since 2019)
- COnfiguration and SElection of ALgorithms (COSEAL), an international group of researchers with focus on algorithm selection and algorithm configuration. (Member since 2017)
- Initiating and Founding member of the "Netzwerk Deutsche Wissenschaft (im Yangtze Delta)", the network of German researchers (both academic and industrial) in the Yangtze Delta, i.e., Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui and the region around, organized by the German Consulate General in Shanghai. (Member since 2011)
- Sustainable Information Technologies and Applications (SITA) initiative (Member since 2012)
Organized Events
- Anna V. Kononova, Hao Wang, Thomas Weise, Carola Doerr, Thomas Bäck, Fabio Caraffini, and Johann Dreo. Analysing Algorithmic Behaviour of Optimisation Heuristics Workshop (AABOH'21) at the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'21), July 10-14, 2021 in Lille, France
website / Call for Papers (CfP)
- Jürgen Branke, Carola Doerr, Tome Eftimov, Pascal Kerschke, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Boris Naujoks, Luís Paquete, Vanessa Volz, and Thomas Weise. Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation (BENCHMARKING'21) workshop at the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'21), July 10-14, 2021 in Lille, France.
website 1, website 2, website 2
- 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
- Carola Doerr, Pietro S. Oliveto, Thomas Weise, Borys Wróbel, and Aleš Zamuda. Black Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB) Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2019), July 13-17, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.
website / Call for Papers (CfP)
- 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)
- 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
- The 2014 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA’2014), November 3-5, 2014, Hefei, Anhui, China. Honorary General Chair: Guoliang Chen; Workshop Co-Chairs: Xin Yao, Ke Tang, and Bin Li. Workshop Publicity and International Liaison Co-Chairs: Thomas Weise and Jinlong Li
- The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'2013), October 20-23, 2013, Hefei, Anhui, China. Hosted and organized by the USTC-Birmingham Joint Research Institute in Intelligent Computation and Its Applications (UBRI). General Chair: Xin Yao; Programme Chair: Hujun Yin; Programme Co-Chairs: Ke Tang, Yang Gao, Frank Klawonn, Minho Lee; Publicity Co-Chairs: Emilio Corchado, Jose A. Costa, and Thomas Weise.
- 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
- M. Brian Blake, Thomas Weise, and Steffen Bleul. 2010 Web Service Challenge (WSC-2010) on Semantic Web Service Composition with Quality-of-Service at the Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC), November 11, 2010, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Thomas Weise, Raymond Chiong, and Zhenyu Yang. Special Session on Evolutionary Computing of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2010) July 7-9, 2010, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Journal Reviewer and Editorships
- Member of Editorial Board (2017-ongoing): Applied Soft Computing, ISSN: 1568-4946, Elsevier Journal
- Member of Editorial Board (2011–2014): Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM), ISSN: 1555-1237, 1555-1229, 1555-1245
- Editor of special section Social Networks for Teaching and Learning (2012) of Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM)
- Editor of special issue Modern Search Heuristics and Applications (2010) of Evolutionary Intelligence, ISSN: 1864-5909 (Print) 1864-5917 (Online), Springer Journal
- Reviewer: Artificial Intelligence, ISSN: 0004-3702, Elsevier Journal
- Reviewer: Computers & Mathematics with Applications, ISSN: 0898-1221, Elsevier Journal
- Reviewer: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, ISSN: 0045-7825, Elsevier Journal
- Reviewer: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), ISSN: 0952-1976, Elsevier Journal
- Reviewer: European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), ISSN: 0377-2217, Elsevier Journal
- Reviewer: Evolutionary Computation, ISSN: 1063-6560 (Print) 1530-9304 (Online), MIT Press Journal
- Reviewer: Evolutionary Intelligence, ISSN: 1864-5909 (Print) 1864-5917 (Online), Springer Journal
- Reviewer: Frontiers of Computer Science, ISSN: 2095-2228 (Print) 2095-2236 (Online), Springer Journal
- Reviewer: Future Generation Computer Systems, ISSN: 0167-739X, Elsevier Journal
- Reviewer: Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, (GENP), ISSN: 1389-2576 (Print), 1573-7632 (Online), Springer Journal
- Reviewer: IEEE Access – The Multidisciplinary Open Access Journal, ISSN: 2169-3536, IEEE Journal
- Reviewer: IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM), ISSN: 1556-603X, IEEE Journal
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI), ISSN: 2471-285X, IEEE Journal
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, ISSN: 1089-778X, IEEE Journal
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B: Cybernetics (SMC-B), ISSN: 1083-4419, IEEE Journal
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part C: Applications and Reviews (SMC-C), ISSN: 1094-6977, IEEE Journal
- Reviewer: Information Sciences, ISSN: 0020-0255, Elsevier Journal
- Reviewer: International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ISSN: 1868-8071, Springer Journal
- Reviewer: International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE), ISSN: 0925-5273, Elsevier Journal
- Reviewer: International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA), ISSN: 0974-7710 (Print) 0974-7729 (Online), Digital Information Research Foundation
- Reviewer: Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), ISSN: 1000-9000, Springer/CCF Journal
- Reviewer: Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Science), ISSN: 1007-1172, CN:31-1943/U, Springer Journal
- Reviewer: Memetic Computing, ISSN: 1865-9284 (Print) 1865-9292 (Online), Springer Journal
- Reviewer: Natural Computing, ISSN: 1567-7818 (Print), 1572-9796 (Online), Springer Journal
- Reviewer: Neurocomputing, ISSN: 0925-2312, Elsevier Journal
- Reviewer: Optimization Methods and Software (GOMS), ISSN: 1055-6788 (Print), 1029-4937 (Online), Taylor & Francis Journal
- Reviewer: Scientia Iranica, ISSN: 1026-3098 (Print), 2345-3605 (Online), Sharif University of Technology
- Reviewer: Soft Computing, Springer Journal, ISSN: 1432-7643 (Print) 1433-7479 (Online)
- Reviewer: WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISSN: 1942-4795 (Online)
Memberships in Conference Committees
- Program Committee: 12th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO 2023). March 20-24, 2023. Leiden, The Netherlands. Springer.
- Program Committee: IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (IEEE FOCI 2022), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2022), December 4–7, 2022, Singapore. IEEE.
- Program Committee: Tenth International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (WCIDM 2022), part of the 22nd Information Technologies – Applications and Theory (ITAT 2022), September 23–27, 2022, Tatrawest, Slovakia
- Reviewer: 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2022), part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI), July 18-23, 2022, Padua, Italiy.
- Reviewer: Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022), February 22-March 1, 2022, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- Program Committee: Ninth International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (WCIDM 2021), part of the 21st Information Technologies – Applications and Theory (ITAT 2021), September 24–28, 2021, Hotel Heľpa, Slovakia
- Program Committee: 2021 Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI'21), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2021), December 5-8, 2021, Orlando, Florida, USA
- Program Committee: Eigth International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (WCIDM 2020), part of the 20th Information Technologies – Applications and Theory (ITAT 2020), September 18–22, 2020, Hotel Tyrapol, Oravská Lesná, Slovakia.
- Program Committee: 16th ACM/SIGEVO Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA XVI), September 6-8, 2021, FH Vorarlberg Dornbirn, Austria
- Program Committee: 16th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2020), September 5-9, 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Program Committee: Evolutionary Computation for Permutation Problems (ECPERM) Workshop, at the at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020), July 8-12, 2020, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Award Committee Member: Open Optimization Competition 2020, at the at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020), July 8-12, 2020, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Program Committee: 14th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2019), November 22–25, 2019, Zhengzhou, China
- Program Committee: 7th International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (WCIDM 2019), part of the 19th Information Technologies – Applications and Theory(ITAT 2019), September 22–24, 2019, Donovaly, Slovakia
- Program Committee: 15th ACM/SIGEVO Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA XV), August 26–29, 2019, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering, Potsdam, Germany
- Program Committee: Third Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for Permutation Problems at the 2019 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2019), 13-17 July 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
- Program Committee: AAAI-18 Student Abstract and Poster Program at the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), February 2–7, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Program Committee: New Standards for Benchmarking in Evolutionary Computation Research workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018)
- Program Committee: 2018 International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), March 29-31, 2018, Xiamen [厦门], Fujian [福建省], China
- Program Committee: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2016), December 6-9, 2016, Athens, Greece
- Program Committee: 2015 International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2015), March 27-29, 2015, Wuyi [武夷], Fujian [福建省], China
- Reviewer: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2014), December 2014, Orlando, FL, USA
- Publicity Chair: The 2014 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA'14), November 2014, Hefei [合肥], Anhui [安徽], China
- Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), July 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Publicity Co-Chair and Member of Organization Committee: The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'2013), October 2013, Hefei [合肥], Anhui [安徽], China
- Organizer: SELP – Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS 2013) which was part of the 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2013), April 2013, Singapore
- Program Committee: The 3rd Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET 2012), part of 2012 IEEE/IPSJ 12th International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2012), July 2012, Izmir, Turkey
- Reviewer: 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012), July 2012, Brisbane, Australia
- Reviewer: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 2012, Philadelphia, USA
- Reviewer: Special Session on Evolutionary Learning at 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2011), December 2011, Perth, Australia
- Reviewer: 2011 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2011), August/Septemer 2011, Seoul, South Korea
- Program Committee: 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC 2011), August 2011, Banff, Canada
- Program Committee: 2nd Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET 2011), July 2010, Munich, Germany
- Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2011 (GECCO-2011), July 2011, Dublin, Ireland
- Program Committee: 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2011), June 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Reviewer: 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, May 2011, Dublin, Ireland
- Program Committee: 2011 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems, April 2011, Paris, France
- Session Chair: Special Session: Web Services Challenge (WS-Challenge) at the 12th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC'10), November 2010, Shanghai, China
- Session Chair: The 2010 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA'10), October 2010, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Program Committee: 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2010), August 2010, Yamagata, Japan
- Member of Panel Discussion: 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2010), July 2010, Beijing, China
- Session Chair: Special Session on Evolutionary Computing of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2010), July 2010, Beijing, China
- Reviewer: Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies' (NDT'2010), July 2010, Prague, Czech Republic
- Reviewer: 10th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), July 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Reviewer: 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2010), July 2010, Barcelona, Spain
- Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2010 (GECCO-2010), July 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA
- Program Committee: The Second Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET), July 2010, Seoul, Korea
- Program Committee: 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (IEEE/ACIS ICIS 2010), August 2010, Yamagata, Japan
- Program Committee: 1st ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications (SESENA), held under the umbrella of ICSE'2010, May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
- Technical program member: 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST'09), November 2009, London, UK
- Reviewer: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG2009), September 2009, Milano, Italy
- Reviewer: Second International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2009), August 2009, London, UK
- Co-Chair: Web Service Challenge (WSC 2009), part of IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'09), July 2009, Vienna, Austria
- Reviewer: The First International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies' (NDT 2009), July 2009, Ostrava, Czech Republic
- Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'09), July 2009, Montréal, Canada
- Paper Referee: World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECS'09), June 2009, Shanghai, China
- Organizer: 2nd Kassel Student Workshop on Security in Distributed Systems (KaSWoSDS'09), February2009, Kassel, Germany
- Technical committee: Third International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008), November 2008, London, UK
- Technical committee: 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2008), October 2008, Mexico City, Mexico
- Program Committee: Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET 2008), July/August 2008, Turku, Finland
- Co-Chair: Web Service Challenge (WSC 2008), part of IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'08) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE'08), July 2008, Washington, D.C., USA
- Editor/Organizer: 1st Kassel Student Workshop on Security in Distributed Systems (KaSWoSDS'08), February 2008, Kassel, Germany
- Organizer: Computer Science Day / Tag der Informatik, July 2006, University of Kassel
Reviewer for Books and Book Chapters
- Jelena Jovanovic and Raymond Chiong, Technological and Social Environments for Interactive Learning, Informing Science, Santa Rosa, California, USA. 2014. ISBN: 1932886737. Available on Google Books
- Edwin F. Meyer, Nickolas Falkner, Raja Sooriamurthi, and Zbigniew Michalewicz, A Guide to Teaching Puzzle-based Learning, ISBN 978-1-4471-6476-0
Reviewer for Science Funds
- FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF), Austrian Science Fund
- Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation, a German Science Fund funding collaborations between German and international scientists
PhD Referee
- Dr. Vladimir Mironovich (Miranovich Uladzimir Anatolevich) [Миронович Владимир Анатольевич]. "Generation of function block programs for industrial cyber-physical systems using evolutionary algorithms" [Генерация программ на основе функциональных блоков для промышленных киберфизических систем с использованием эволюционных алгоритмов]. 2020. ITMO University [Университет ИТМО], Saint Petersburg, Russia. Supervisor: Maxim Buzdalov (Buzdalov Maxim Viktorovich) [Буздалов Максим Викторович].
thesis / thesis defense page
- Dr. Borhan Kazimipour. "Towards a More Efficient Use of Computational Budget in Large-Scale Black-Box Optimization," 2018/2019, School of Science, College of Science, Engineering, and Health, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Supervisor: Xiaodong Li
thesis
- Dr. Stefan Niemcyk. "Dynamic Configuration of the Distributed Information Processing in Groups of Heterogeneous Agents" [Dynamische Konfiguration verteilter Informationsverarbeitung in Gruppen heterogener Agenten], 2017, Distributed Systems Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kassel, Kassel, Hesse, Germany. Supervisor: Kurt Geihs
details / thesis