- Written by: Thomas Weise
Our team warmly congratulates Dr. Zhize Wu [吴志泽博士] for his promotion to Associate Professor [副教授]. This promotion is the result of his outstanding research work, which is documented in several high-quality papers, including two SCI-indexed papers in 2020 alone. Dr. Wu additionally co-supervises two graduate students and has made significant teaching contributions to our school. Congratulations, Zhize!
- Written by: Thomas Weise
Our team warmly congratulates Dr. Xinlu Li [李新路博士] for his promotion to Associate Professor [副教授]. After many hard years of work for our university, this is a well-deserved recognition. Furthermore, this year Xinlu published an excellent article, building on his track record of good research, and took on the supervision of two graduate students. He also contributes significantly to the teaching of our school. Congratulations, Xinlu!
- Written by: Thomas Weise
On December 16, 2020, the Hefei City Government [合肥市人民政府] organized the Award Ceremony for the Third Batch of the Hefei Friendship Award for Foreign Experts together with the Forum on Suggestions of Foreign Experts to improve our city [第三届外国专家“合肥友谊奖”颁奖仪式暨外国专家建言献策座谈会]. The symposium was chaired by Mr. Aihua YU [虞爱华 （安徽省委常委、合肥市委书记）], member of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Committee and Secretary of Hefei Municipal Party committee, and Mrs. Yun LING [凌云（安徽省合肥市委副书记、市政府市长）], the deputy secretary of Hefei Municipal Party committee and the Mayor of Hefei Municipal Government. The meeting was further guided by Mr. Wensong WANG [王文松（安徽省合肥市委常委、常务副市长）], member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Hefei Municipal Committee and Executive Vice Mayor of Hefei City; Mr. Ping LUO [罗平（安徽省合肥市人民政府党组成员、秘书长）], member of the Party Group and Secretary General of the Hefei Municipal People's Government; and Weiming WANG [市政府副秘书长汪维明], the Deputy Secretary General of the Hefei Municipal Government.
In this third batch of Hefei Friendship Awards, ten international experts from seven countries, namely Germany, Russia, Japan, the United States, Australia, and Costa Rica, and South Korea, were awarded. One of the awardees who had the great honor to receive the Hefei Friendship Award for Foreign Experts [外国专家“友谊奖”] was Prof. Dr. Thomas Weise (who had already received the Friendship Award of our district, the Hefei Economic and Technological Development Area, in 2018).
- Written by: Thomas Weise
2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'21)
Lille, France, July 10-14, 2021
http://iao.hfuu.edu.cn/aaboh21
The Analysing Algorithmic Behaviour of Optimisation Heuristics Workshop (AABOH), as part of the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'21), invited the submission of original and unpublished research papers. Here you can download the AABOH Special Session Call for Papers (CfP) in PDF format and here as plain text file.
Optimisation and Machine Learning tools are among the most used tools in the modern world with its omnipresent computing devices. Yet, the dynamics of these tools have not been analysed in detail. Such scarcity of knowledge on the inner workings of heuristic methods is largely attributed to the complexity of the underlying processes that cannot be subjected to a complete theoretical analysis. However, this is also partially due to a superficial experimental set-up and, therefore, a superficial interpretation of numerical results. Indeed, researchers and practitioners typically only look at the final result produced by these methods. Meanwhile, the vast amount of information collected over the run(s) is wasted. In the light of such considerations, it is now becoming more evident that such information can be useful and that some design principles should be defined that allow for online or offline analysis of the processes taking place in the population and their dynamics.
Hence, with this workshop, we call for both theoretical and empirical achievements identifying the desired features of optimisation and machine learning algorithms, quantifying the importance of such features, spotting the presence of intrinsic structural biases and other undesired algorithmic flaws, studying the transitions in algorithmic behaviour in terms of convergence, any-time behaviour, performances, robustness, etc., with the goal of gathering the most recent advances to fill the aforementioned knowledge gap and disseminate the current state-of-the-art within the research community.
Read more: Analysing Algorithmic Behaviour of Optimisation Heuristics Workshop (AABOH'21)
- Written by: Thomas Weise
Our team co-organizes the Special Session on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA), as part of the 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021). We are cordially inviting the submission of original and unpublished research papers. Here you can download the BOCIA Special Session Call for Papers (CfP) in PDF format and here as plain text file. The IEEE CEC 2021 online submission system is now open, and it is possible to submit papers to our special session by selecting "SS-18. Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA)" as Main Research Topic.
