Written by: Thomas Weise

Created: 06 June 2018

• Optimization
• Education
• USTC
• 中国科学技术大学
• Qi Qi

Our group warmly congratulates our Master's student Qi Qi [齐琪] at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) [中国科学技术大学], who completer her Master's degree in Computer Science. Ms. Qi has been an outstanding student supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Weise. She has significantly contributed to our Optimization Benchmarking project and also has given two conference reports, at GECCO 2017 and ICACI 2018. Ms. Qi will now join the group of Prof. Tianbao Yang at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, USA. We wish her all the best for her future career and pursuit of a PhD degree.

Written by: Thomas Weise

Created: 04 June 2018

• Operations Research
• Optimization
• Germany and China
• Traffic
• Combinatorial Optimization
• Guests
• TU Berlin
• Möhring Rolf

Our Institute warmly welcomes our distinguished guest Prof. Dr. Rolf H. Möhring from the Fachgebiet Kombinatorische Optimierung und Graphenalgorithmen (COGA) of the Institut für Mathematik at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) in Berlin, Germany. Prof. Möhring will stay with us for a short research visit from June 5 to 8, 2018. During his stay, he gave the research talk on "Dynamic Network Routing: Meeting the Challenge of Complex Traffic and Transportation Tasks" and conducted joint research with our Dr. Zijun Wu.

Read more: Welcome to Guest Researcher Prof. Dr. Rolf H. Möhring from the TU Berlin [2018/06]

Written by: Thomas Weise

Created: 27 March 2018

• Benchmarking
• Operations Research
• Optimization
• Evolutionary Computation
• Combinatorial Optimization
• Discrete Optimization

The Black-Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking Workshop (BB-DOB@GECCO), a part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018) has been extended to April 3, 2018. This means that there is one more week to submit your original research on benchmarking of discrete optimizers. The deadlines for acceptance notification and for the submission of the final versions of the accepted papers have not been changed. The GECCO conference takes place on July 15-19, 2018, in Kyoto, Japan (http://gecco-2018.sigevo.org/).

The Black-Box-Optimization Benchmarking (BBOB) methodology introduced by the long-standing and successful BBOB-GECCO workshops series has become a well-established standard for benchmarking continuous optimization algorithms. The aim of this workshop is to develop a similar standard methodology for the benchmarking of black-box optimization algorithms for discrete and combinatorial domains. The goal of this first edition of the BB-DOB workshop series is to define a suitable set of benchmark functions for discrete and combinatorial optimization problems.

Read more: BB-DOB @ GECCO: Submission Deadline Extended to April 3, 2018

Written by: Thomas Weise

Created: 16 March 2018

• Benchmarking
• Optimization
• Evolutionary Computation
• Computational Intelligence

The conference program of the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), where our International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA) takes place, has been released (pdf). The paper presentation of our workshop will take place on March 31st, 2018 from 09:45 to 11:30 in room Guang-Yi [广益厅]. Each talk will have a total of 15 minutes, 12 of which are for presentation and 3 for questions and answers. All authors should bring their presentation either in PPT, PPTX or PDF format on a USB stick and hand them to the session chair before the session starts. This will ensure that all presentations can take place in a timely manner without too many delays caused by switching and plugging in laptops. We are looking forward to meet you in Xiamen [厦门], Fujian [福建省], China!

1. Yiqin Zhang, Fenlin Liu, Hongyan Jia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and Chunfang Yang. "Optimization of Rich Model based on Fisher Criterion for Image Steganalysis" in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), March 29-31, 2018, Xiamen, Fujian, China, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-5386-4362-4, pages 809—814
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4. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Jinlong Li. "Tuning the Hyper-parameters of CMA-ES with Tree-structured Parzen Estimators" in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), March 29-31, 2018, Xiamen, Fujian, China, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-5386-4362-4, pages 827—832
5. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. "A Hybrid Multi-swarm Particle Swarm Optimization with One-Dimensional Chaotic Search Strategy" in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), March 29-31, 2018, Xiamen, Fujian, China, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-5386-4362-4, pages 833—838
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7. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. "Optimization Algorithm Behavior Modeling: A Study on the Traveling Salesman Problem" in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), March 29-31, 2018, Xiamen, Fujian, China, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-5386-4362-4, pages 845—850. pdf / slides

Here you can find a short workshop report.