2012-07-15: SELP: Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning

Evolutionary Algorithms Publications

I am very happy to announce SELP, the "SSCI/CIPLS 2013 Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning" which I have the honor to co-chair. The 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS 2013) that will host our session will take place as part of the 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2013) from April 15 to 19, 2013 in the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel of Singapore.

My co-chairs Jörg Lässig, Alexandre Devert, and Yi Mei, our strong international program committee, and I invite papers that explore ways to solve large-scale logistics or transportation problems by using Evolutionary Algorithms. The detailed Call for Papers of our special session is available at http://www.it-weise.de/documents/files/selp13/index.html. I am looking forward to receive lots of interesting papers and I think that together we can make this a really nice session. I hope to meet you in Singapore, at CIPLS'2013 and especially in our session.

2012-04-17: NICaiA

Evolutionary Algorithms Publications

This week, I had the chance to participate in the Third NICaiA Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Its Applications, held at Cercia in Birmingham, UK. The workshop was a good chance to meet up with old friends and research colleagues, plus it was packed with interesting presentations (see the program). My own presentation at the workshop [d6] concerned two case studies on different representations for two logistic planning problems, a real-world VRP and a capacitated arc routing (CARP) task. However, I must admit that the other works presented were far more interesting and really inspiring.

2012-02-13: Distributed Computing

Distributed Computing Teaching

This Tuesday (2012-02-14), I will start teaching the lecture Distributed Computing at the School of Computer Science and Technology here in Héféi. The course home page is http://www.it-weise.de/teaching/2012SS-DC.

The course will not follow a book, so as teaching material, we will mainly use the course slides. This gives us freedom to tackle a set of different interesting topics in distributed computing with hands-on-experience. I will, e.g., try to do some lessons on MPI, some on cloud computing and Map/Reduce, discuss SOA and web services, as well as fundamental stuff such as sockets. I hope that I can make this course interesting and useful for all participants and I will put lots of work into that.

2011-11-18: Book Now Online

Applications Evolutionary Algorithms Publications

Finally, the book "Variants of Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Applications" [d10] which Raymond Chiong and Zbigniew Michalewicz and I edited together (blog:2011-09-30) has appeared online in springerlink. Its doi is 10.1007/978-3-642-23424-8 and it is available under the ISBN numbers 978-3-642-23423-1 and 978-3-642-23424-8. It's Google Books ID is B2ONePP40MEC and you can order it from Amazon under ID 3642234232.

2011-10-26: CEC Special Session: Large Scale Global Optimization

Evolutionary Algorithms Heuristics Large-Scale Publications

I am very happy to announce the "CEC 2012 Special Session and Competition on Large Scale Global Optimization" which I have the honor to co-chair with my valued colleagues Ke Tang and Zhenyu Yang.

The 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012) will take place as part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2012) from June 10 to 15, 2012 in the International Conference Center of Brisbane in Australia.

Call for Participation

In the past two decades, different kinds of nature-inspired optimization algorithms have been developed and applied to solve optimization problems, including Simulated Annealing (SA), Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), Differential Evolution (DE), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA), etc. Although these approaches have shown excellent search abilities when applying to some small or medium size problems, many of them will encounter severe difficulties when applying to large scale problems, e.g., problems with up to 1000 variables. The reasons appear to be two-fold. First, the complexity of a problem usually increases with the number of decision variables, number of constraints, or even number of objectives (for multi-objective optimization). This emergent complexity might prevent a previously successful search strategy from finding the optimal solution. Second, the solution space of the problem increases exponentially with the number of decision variables, and a more efficient search strategy is required to explore all the promising regions with limited computational resources.

Historically, scaling up EAs to large scale problems has attracted much interest, including both theoretical and practical studies. However, existing work in the areas of EAs are still limited given the significance of the scalability issue. Due to this fact, this special session is devoted to highlight the recent advances in EAs for large scale optimization problems, involving single objective or multiple objectives, unconstrained or constrained problems, binary or discrete or real or mixed decision variables. Specifically, we encourage interested researchers to submit their latest work on:

Both theoretical and experimental analysis of the scalability of EAs.
Novel approaches and algorithms for scaling up EAs to large scale optimization problems.
Applications of EAs to real-world large scale optimization problems.
Papers on novel test suites that help us in understanding problem characteristics are also welcome.

Furthermore, a competition on Large-Scale Numerical Optimization will also be organized in company with our special session. This competition is built on the successful special session and competition on LSGO in CEC?2010. For the competition in CEC?2012, the previously proposed CEC?2010 benchmark test suite, which consists of 20 benchmark test functions capturing a range of problem characteristics, will be used. Participants of the competition will be required to evaluate their existing or novel algorithms using the test suite, and are welcome to report their approaches and results in a paper submitted to the special session. The competition will provide the participants a great opportunity to compare their LSGO algorithms with others.

For more information about the special session and competition, such as the deadlines and the benchmark problems, please visit the corresponding webpages:

For Special Session: http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~ketang/cec2012/cec2012lsgo.htm
For Competition: http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~ketang/cec2012/lsgo_competition.htm

Special Session and Competition Organizers

Ke Tang
Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL),
School of Computer Science and Technology,
University of Science and Technology of China, China
ketang@ustc.edu.cn
Zhenyu Yang
Department of Computer Science and Technology
East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
zhyyang@cs.ecnu.edu.cn
Thomas Weise
Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL),
School of Computer Science and Technology,
University of Science and Technology of China, China
tweise@ustc.edu.cn, http://www.it-weise.de/

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2012-07-15: SELP: Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning
2012-04-17: NICaiA
2012-02-13: Distributed Computing
2011-11-18: Book Now Online
2011-10-26: CEC Special Session: Large Scale Global Optimization
2011-10-15: Multiobjectivization via Helper-Objectives with the Tunable Objectives Problem
2011-10-02: Task Force "Education"
2011-09-30: Variants of Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Applications
2011-09-05: Practical Optimization Algorithm Design
2011-08-30: Editor: IJIKM
2011-07-26: Travel in China
2011-07-20: Travel Home to Germany
2011-05-30: Wenxiang Chen One of the Winners of the Anhui-level Challenge Cup
2011-05-28: Summer Concert of USTC Orchestra
2011-05-22/23: Visit by my Friend Ingo
2011-05-12: Presentation at the Jiujiang University
2011-04-17: 2011 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Its Applications
2011-03-27: Good News and Awards
2011-03-20: Research Talk by Prof. Geihs Scheduled on 2011-03-26
2011-03-19: Leslie Vailiant: Turing Award
2011-03-09: Axis2 + JiBX: The New Environment for AOAB
2011-03-07: XML/HTML Entities and LaTeX
2011-03-03: Java + XML + Web Services
2011-03-02: Graphical Visualization of Statistical Test Results
2011-02-26: Web Services with Axis2
2011-02-24: Evolutionary Intelligence Special Issue
2011-02-23: Picbreeder
2011-02-22: LaTeX Packages
2011-02-21: Website Generation

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