Activities

Chair

GECCO 2024 — Track chair

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, (new) Benchmarking, Benchmarks, Software and Reproducibility (BBSR) track (Melbourne, Australia, 2024), /w  Carola Doerr

GECCO 2023 — Hybrid scheduling chair

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Lisbon, Portugal, 2023), /w Ahmed Kheiri

EA 2022 — Proceedings chair

• 15th Conference on Artificial Evolution (Exeter, UK, 2022), /w Pierrick Legrand

GECCO 2021 — Virtualization chair

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Lille, France Virtual, 2021) — see report

EA 2019 — Proceedings chair

• 14th Conference on Artificial Evolution (Mulhouse, France, 2019), /w Pierrick Legrand

GECCO 2019 — Track chair

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO) track (Prague, Czech Republic, 2019), /w Jonathan Fieldsend

EvoCOP 2019 — Program chair

• 19th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Leipzing, Germany, 2019), /w Luís Paquete

GECCO 2018 — Proceedings chair

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Kyoto, Japan, 2018)

EvoCOP 2018 — Program chair

• 18th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Parma, Italy, 2018), /w Manuel López-Ibáñez

Editorial Board

TELO

• Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (ACM)

• Reproducibility Board Chair (since 2023) — see guidelines

• Reproducibility Board Member (since 2019)

Guest Editor

EJOR — Special issue

• Special issue on Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization, European Journal of Operational Research, co-edited /w D Brockhoff, B Derbel and S Verel (deadline: October 31, 2013; appeared as vol 243, n 2, pp 345–346, 2015)

Organizing Committee

GECCO 2024 — Workshop

• Landscape-aware heuristic search, workshop at GECCO 2024, co-organized /w S Thomson, N Veerapen, K Malan, S Verel and G Ochoa (Melbourne, Australia, 2024)

GECCO 2023 — Workshop

• Landscape-aware heuristic search, workshop at GECCO 2023, co-organized /w S Thomson, N Veerapen, K Malan, S Verel and G Ochoa (Lisbon, Portugal, 2023)

EA 2022 — Conference

• 15th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (Exeter, UK, 2022)

GECCO 2021 — Conference

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Lille, France, 2021)

• Local organizer, /w B Derbel, O Abdelkafi,  N Veerapen, and S Verel

GECCO 2021 — Workshop

• Landscape-aware heuristic search, workshop at GECCO 2021, co-organized /w N Veerapen, K Malan, S Verel and G Ochoa (Lille, France, 2021)

EA 2019 — Conference

• 14th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (Mulhouse, France, 2019)

GECCO 2019 — Workshop

• Landscape-aware heuristic search, workshop at GECCO 2019, co-organized /w N Veerapen, S Verel and G Ochoa (Prague, Czech Republic, July 2019)

CIMO 2019 — Workshop

• 2nd International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Massive Optimization (CIMO 2019), co-organized /w O Abdelkafi, H Aguirre, B Derbel, K Tanaka and S Verel (Lille, France, July 2019)

GECCO 2018 — Workshop

• Landscape-aware heuristic search, workshop at GECCO 2018, co-organized /w N Veerapen, S Verel and G Ochoa (Kyoto, Japan, July 2018)

CIMO 2018 — Workshop

• 1st International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Massive Optimization (CIMO 2018), co-organized /w H Aguirre, B Derbel, K Tanaka and S Verel (Nagano, Japan, July 2018)

BIOMA 2018 — Special session

• Multi-/many-objective optimization and learning, special session at BIOMA 2018, co-organized /w H Aguirre, B Derbel, B Filipič, T Tušar, S Verel (Paris, France, May 2018)

GECCO 2017 — Workshop

• Landscape-aware heuristic search, workshop at GECCO 2017, co-organized /w N Veerapen, F Daolio, S Verel and G Ochoa (Berlin, Germany, July 2017)

CEC 2017 — Special session

• Fitness landscape analysis for understanding and designing intelligent optimization algorithms, special session at CEC 2017, co-organized /w H Aguirre, K Tanaka and S Verel (San Sebastián, Spain, June 2017)

CEC 2015 — Special session

• Fitness landscape analysis and search space structure, special session at CEC 2015, co-organized /w H Aguirre, K Tanaka and S Verel (Sendai, Japan, May 2015)

MCDM 2013 — Special session

• EMO@MCDM 2013: Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization session at the MCDM 2013 conference, co-organized /w D Brockhoff, B Derbel and S Verel (Malaga, Spain, June 2013)

AESS 2013 — Summer school

• AESS 2013: Artificial Evolution Summer School (Quiberon, France, June 2013)

LION 2013 — Special session

• Problem structure vs algorithm performance in multi-objective combinatorial optimization session at LION 2013, co-organized /w H Aguirre, K Tanaka and S Verel (Catania, Italy, January 2013)

EURO 2012 — Special session

• Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization session at EURO 2012, co-organized /w J Branke (Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2012)

EEEA 2012 — Summer school

• EEEA 2012: 7e école d'été Évolution Artificielle : État de la recherche (Quiberon, France, June 2012)

ThRaSH 2012 — Workshop

• ThRaSH 2012: 6th workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (Lille, France, 2012) 

META 2010 — Special session

• Metaheuristics for Multi-objective Optimization, as a part of META 2010, special session co-organized /w L Paquete

META 2010 — Conference

• META 2010: 3rd International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (Djerba, Tunisia, 2010)

NATComp 2010 — Workshop

• NATComp 2010: Workshop on Nature Inspired Computing, as part of AICCSA 2010 (Hammamet, Tunisia, 2010)

META 2008 — Conference

• META 2008: 2nd International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (Hammamet, Tunisia, 2008)

JOBIM 2008 — Conference

• JOBIM 2008: Journées Ouvertes Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques (Lille, France, 2008)

Program Committee

• PPSN 2024 — 18th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (Hagenberg, Austria, 2024)

• GECCO 2024 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Benchmarking, Benchmarks, Software, and Reproducibility (BBSR) track (Melbourne, Australia, 2024)

• CEC 2024 — IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, part of WCCI (Yokohama, Japan, 2024)

• EvoCOP 2024 — 24th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Aberystwyth, UK, 2024)

• FOGA 2023 — 17th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (Potsdam, Germany, 2023)

• GECCO 2023 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Lisbon, Portugal, 2023)

• EvoCOP 2023 — 23th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Brno, Czech Republic, 2023)

• EMO 2023 — 12th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (Leiden, Netherlands, 2023)

• EA 2022 — 15th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (Exeter, UK, 2022)

• PPSN 2022 — 17th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (Dortmund, Germany, 2022)

• GECCO 2022 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Boston, USA, 2022)

• EvoCOP 2022 — 22th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Seville, Spain, 2022)

• FOGA 2021 — 16th Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (Dornbirn, Austria, 2021)

• GECCO 2021 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) and Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO) tracks (Lille, France, 2021)

• CEC 2021 — IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (Kraków, Poland, 2021)

• EvoCOP 2021 — 21th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Virtual, 2021)

• EMO 2021 — 11th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (Shenzhen, China, 2021)

• BIOMA 2020 — 9th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications (Brussels, Belgium, 2020)

• PPSN 2020 — 16th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (Leiden, The Netherlands, 2020)

• GECCO 2020 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Cancún, México, 2020)

• EvoCOP 2020 — 20th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Seville, Spain, 2020)

• EA 2019 — 14th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (Mulhouse, France, 2019)

• FOGA 2019 — 15th Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (Potsdam, Germany, 2019)

• GECCO 2019 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO) track (Prague, Czech Republic, 2019)

• EvoCOP 2019 — 19th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Leipzig, Germany, 2019)

• EMO 2019 — 10th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (Michigan, USA, 2019)

• PPSN 2018 — 15th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (Coimbra, Portugal, 2018)

• GECCO 2018 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Kyoto, Japan, 2018)

• EvoCOP 2018 — 18th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Parma, Italy, 2018)

• EA 2017 — 13th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (Paris, France, 2017)

• GECCO 2017 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Berlin, Germany, 2017)

• CEC 2017 — IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (San Sebastián, Spain, 2017)

• EvoCOP 2017 — 17th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017)

• EMO 2017 — 9th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (Münster, Germany, 2017)

• PPSN 2016 — 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (Edinburgh, UK, 2016)

• MOD 2016 — 2nd International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data (Tuscany, Italy, 2016)

• GECCO 2016 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Denver, USA, 2016)

• EvoCOP 2016 — 16th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Porto, Portugal, 2016)

• EA 2015 — 12th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (Lyon, France, 2015)

• EPIA 2015 — 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Track on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (Coimbra, Portugal, 2015)

• GECCO 2015 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Madrid, Spain, 2015)

• CEC 2015 — IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (Sendai, Japan, 2015)

• EvoCOP 2015 — 15th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015)

• LION 2015 — 9th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (Lille, France, 2015)

• EMO 2015 — 8th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (Guimarães, Portugal, 2015)

• ECAI 2014 — 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Prague, Czech Republic, 2014)

• GECCO 2014 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Vancouver, Canada, 2014)

• EvoCOP 2014 — 14th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Granada, Spain, 2014)

• ALEA 2013 — 6th Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms, as a part of EPIA 2013 (Açores, Portugal, 2013)

• GECCO 2013 — Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Amsterdam The Netherlands, 2013)

• IEEE SSCI 2013 — IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (Singapour, 2013)

• EvoCOP 2013 — 13th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Vienna, Austria, 2013)

• EMO 2013 — 7th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (Sheffield, UK, 2013)

• CEC-EMO 2012 — Special Session on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (Brisbane, Australia, 2012) 

• EvoCOP 2012 — 12th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Malaga, Spain, 2012)

• LION 2012 — 6th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (Paris, France, 2012)

• ALEA 2011 — 5th Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms, as a part of EPIA 2011 (Lisbon, Portugal, 2011)

• EMO 2011 — 6th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (Ouro Preto, Brazil, 2011)

• SLS-DS 2009 — Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms (Brussels, Belgium, 2009)

Journal Reviewing

• 4OR — A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research (Springer)

• ASOC — Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier)

• CAIE — Computers & Industrial Engineering (Elsevier)

• COAP — Computational Optimization and Applications (Springer)

• COR — Computers & Operations Research (Elsevier)

• CSUR — Computing Surveys (ACM)

• CYB — Transactions on Cybernetics (IEEE)

• DAM — Discrete Applied Mathematics (Elsevier)

• EJOR — European Journal of Operational Research (Elsevier)

• EVCO — Evolutionary Computation (MIT)

• Expert Systems — The Journal of Knowledge Engineering (Wiley)

• GENO — Engineering Optimization (Taylor & Francis)

• HEUR — Journal of Heuristics (Springer)

• IJAIT — International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (World Scientific)

• ITOR — International Transactions in Operational Research (Wiley)

• KNOSYS — Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier)

• MCDA — Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (Wiley & Sons)

• NEUCOM — Neurocomputing (Elsevier)

• SOCO — Soft Computing (Springer)

• TELO — Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (ACM)

• TEVC — Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE)

Special issues

• Multiobjective Metaheuristics for Multidisciplinary Engineering Applications, Engineering Optimization (GENO, Taylor & Francis, 2011)

• Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Methodologies and Applications, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA, Wiley, 2011)

• Multi-objective Optimization, Computers & Operations Research (COR, Elsevier, 2011)

• New advances in metaheuristics, Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms (JMMA, Springer, 2011)

• Recent developments in bio-inspired algorithms, Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms (JMMA, Springer, 2010)

PhD Jury Membership

• Sarah Thomson — Univ Stirling (UK), PhD defense: October 2020

  • External Examiner

  • Title: Anatomy of the local optima level in combinatorial optimisation

  • Supervisor: Gabriela Ochoa

• Vincent Hénaux — Univ Angers (FR), PhD 2018-2020

  • Member of the PhD Monitoring Committee

  • Title: Generation of local search algorithms

  • Supervisors: Adrien Goëffon and Frédéric Saubion

• Sara Tari — Univ Angers (FR), PhD 2015-2019

  • Member of the PhD Monitoring Committee

  • Title: Strategies for exploring fitness landscapes

  • Supervisors: Matthieu Basseur and Adrien Goëffon

Working Groups

• Member, executive board member and vice-secretary of EA (french association on artificial evolution, since 2015)

• Member and management committee substitute of the COST action on Improving applicability of nature-inspired optimization by joining theory and practice (CA15140, 2016-2020, chair: Thomas Jansen)

• Founding member of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Decomposition-based techniques in evolutionary computation (since 2017, chair: Ke Li)

• Founding member of the Benchmarking Network (since 2019)

National Authorities

• Member of the Scientific Council of the national CNRS research group on Operations Research GdR RO and Co-animator of the MH2PPC thematic axis (since 2021)

• Elected member of the National Council of Universities CNU 27 (2020-2023)

• Member, executive board member and vice-secretary of EA (french association on artificial evolution, since 2015)

• External member of the Recruiting Committee for Associate Professorship, Univ Littoral (2013)

Local Authorities

• Responsible for Communication, Computer Science Department, Univ Lille (2021-2023)

• Director of studies of the Master-2 MIAGE IPI-NT, Univ Lille (2015-2021)

• Permanent member of the Mixed Commission Education/Research, Univ Lille (since 2018)

• Member of the Recruiting Committee for temporary positions (ATER), IUT STID Lille (since 2021)

• Member of the Recruiting Committee for temporary positions, Inria Lille (2018)

• Internal member of the Recruiting Committee for Associate Professorship, Univ Lille (2015-2018)

• Responsible of the Bonus research group website (2017-2023)

• Co-coordinator of the Seminars from the OPTIMA thematic group (2014-2017)

• Coordinator of the Seminars from the Dolphin research group (2011-2014)

• Introduction to research and innovation activities of the Dolphin research group to Master students (RIC days)

• Coordinator of the Activity Report from the Dolphin research group, Inria (2010)