21.10.24 — New paper on Landscape smoothing accepted at Expert Systems with Applications
17.10.24 — Happy to welcome Jonathan Fieldsend from 🇬🇧 University of Exeter (UK) for a ten-day research stay in our lab!
04.10.24 — Happy to welcome Katherine Malan from 🇿🇦 UNISA (South Africa) for a three-week research stay in our lab!
25.09.24 — I've been appointed to co-chair the Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO) track at 🇪🇸 GECCO 2025
15.09.24 — Invited speaker at the Multimodal multi-objective optimization MMMOO workshop at PPSN 2024
01.09.24 — I've been appointed as the Director of studies of the 2nd year computer engineering cycle at EILCO
15.07.24 — Workshop on Landscape-aware heuristic search (LAHS) at GECCO 2024
08.07.24 — In 🇯🇵 Nagano for the CIMO 2024 workshop and visiting the Japanese branch of MODŌ at Shinshu University
03.07.24 — Our paper on Multi-objectivization has received the 🥇 best paper award at WCCI/CEC 2024!
03.07.24 — In 🇯🇵 Tokyo, visiting JFLI (IRL 3527)
30.06.24 — Tutorial on Landscape analysis for explainable optimization at WCCI/CEC 2024 /w Sébastien Verel
30.06.24 — In 🇯🇵 Yokohama, attending WCCI/CEC 2024
28.06.24 — In 🇯🇵 Yokohama, visiting Ryoji Tanabe at Yokohama National University
20.06.24 — New paper on Heterogeneous landscape objectives accepted at European Journal of Operational Research
05.06.24 — In 🇫🇷 Calais, attending the Workshop on AI and Optimization of the A2U alliance, and talking about explaining the selection of optimization algorithms
22.05.24 — In 🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer, attending the MAIA forum on Mastering Artificial Intelligence Applications of the A2U alliance
15.04.24 — In 🇳🇱 Leiden, attending the Lorentz Center workshop on Benchmarking in Multi-Criteria Optimisation (BeMCO)
01.04.24 — New mediation paper (in French) published in 1024, managed by the French Society for Computer Science, and available online
28.03.24 — Our report on R2-Optimal Representations for the Dagstuhl seminar 23361 on Multiobjective Optimization on a Budget is now available online
21.03.24 — New paper accepted at GECCO 2024
15.03.24 — New papers accepted at WCCI/CEC 2024
11.01.24 — Sébastien Verel and I will give a tutorial on Landscape analysis for explainable optimization at WCCI/CEC 2024
31.12.23 — I'm excited to start a new position as Full Professor at the University of the Littoral Opal Coast (ULCO)!
20.12.23 — Congratulations to Dr. Raphaël Cosson for successfully defending his PhD thesis, and many thanks to the members of the jury!
10.12.23 — Upcoming workshop on Landscape-aware heuristic search (LAHS) at GECCO 2024
05.12.23 — Looking forward to participating in the COST action CA22137 "ROAR-NET" for WP5 on Algorithm selection and configuration
29.11.23 — Happy to welcome Kiyoshi Tanaka from 🇯🇵 Shinshu University
28.09.23 — In 🇫🇷 Calais, for an invited talk on Landscape-aware algorithm selection for multi-objective optimization at LISIC, Univ Littoral
15.09.23 — I've been appointed to co-chair the (new) Benchmarking, Benchmarks, Software and Reproducibility (BBSR) track at 🇦🇺 GECCO 2024, /w Carola Doerr
04.09.23 — In 🇩🇪 Dagstuhl, for Seminar 23361 on Multiobjective optimization on a budget
24.08.23 — In 🇯🇵 Japan, visiting Ryoji Tanabe and his lab at Yokohama National University
24.07.23 — We are migrating the MoCObench repository to GitLab
19.07.23 — Our paper on the revised Pareto local optimal solutions network has received the 🥇 best paper award at GECCO 2023 (EMO track)!
17.07.23 — Presenting our works on the "easiness" of Many-objective optimization and on the revised Pareto local optimal solutions network at GECCO 2023
15.07.23 — Workshop on Landscape-aware heuristic search (LAHS) at GECCO 2023
15.07.23 — In 🇵🇹 Lisbon, attending GECCO 2023
27.06.23 — Recommendations from CNU 27 regarding publication practices
12.06.23 — In 🇯🇵 Japan, visiting the Japanese branch of MODŌ at Shinshu University, the University of Electro-Communications, and the JFLI (IRL 3527)
21.05.23 — Our paper on the revised Pareto local optimal solutions network is also 🥉 nominated for the GECCO 2023 best paper award (EMO track)
21.05.23 — Our paper on the "easiness" of Many-objective optimization is 🥉 nominated for the GECCO 2023 best paper award (EMO track)
03.05.23 — New papers accepted at GECCO 2023 Companion for the LAHS and QuantOpt workshops
17.04.23 — Farewell to Shoichiro Tanaka, PhD student at the 🇯🇵 University of Electro-Communications who visited our group for three months
01.04.23 — My honorary position as a Collaborative Professor at 🇯🇵 Shinshu University has been renewed for 2 years!
31.03.23 — New papers accepted at GECCO 2023
30.03.23 — Two weeks left to submit your paper to the Landscape-Aware Heuristic Search (LAHS) workshop at GECCO 2023
20.03.23 — In 🇳🇱 Leiden, attending the EMO 2023 conference and presenting our paper on Feature-based benchmarking of distance-based multi/many-objective problems
10.03.23 — I've been appointed as the Reproducibility chair for the journal Transactions on evolutionary learning and optimization (TELO)
21.02.23 — In 🇫🇷 Rennes, attending the ROADEF 2023 conference
27.01.23 — New paper accepted at Applied Soft Computing
18.01.23 — New paper accepted at EvoCOP 2023
17.01.23 — Happy to welcome Shoichiro Tanaka, PhD student at the 🇯🇵 University of Electro-Communications for a three-month research stay in our group
09.12.22 — Congratulations to Dr. Alexandre Jesus for successfully defending his PhD thesis, and many thanks to the members of the jury!
09.12.22 — Upcoming workshop on Landscape-aware heuristic search (LAHS) at GECCO 2023
24.11.22 — In Paris for the ATOM meeting (GdR RO), presenting our work on Multi-objective landscapes and algorithm selection
09.11.22 — Congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Berveglieri for successfully defending his PhD thesis, and many thanks to the members of the jury!
03.11.22 — Happy to welcome Kiyoshi Tanaka & Daisuke Tsuda from 🇯🇵 Shinshu University
31.10.22 — In 🇬🇧 Exeter, attending the EA 2022 conference
12.10.22 — I've been appointed as the co-Hybrid scheduling chair for GECCO 2023
05.10.22 — I've been invited to participate to the Dagstuhl seminar 23361 on Multiobjective Optimization on a Budget
30.08.22 — In Calais for a research workshop
09.07.22 — Attending GECCO 2022 (online)
05.07.22 — Happy to welcome Francisco Chicano from the 🇪🇸 University of Málaga as a visiting researcher for a three-month research stay in our research group
15.06.22 — I defended my habilitation (HDR) entilted "Landscape analysis and heuristic search for multi-objective optimization"
30.05.22 — In 🇳🇱 Leiden, attending the Lorentz Center workshop "Benchmarked: Optimization Meets Machine Learning"
13.05.22 — Our paper on Multi-objective NK landscapes with heterogeneous objectives is nominated for the GECCO 2022 best paper award (EMO track)
21.04.22 — New paper on Many-objective optimization accepted in Computers & Operations Research
24.03.22 — New papers accepted at GECCO 2022
20.12.21 — New report on the virtualization of GECCO 2021
03.12.21 — Congratulations to Dr. Geoffrey Pruvost for successfully defending his PhD thesis, and many thanks to the members of the jury!
26.11.21 — Upcoming workshop on Landscape-aware heuristic search at GECCO 2022 (deadline: April 11, 2022)
29.09.21 — Honored to be appointed Collaborative Professor at 🇯🇵 Shinshu University
27.09.21 — Happy to welcome Roberto Santana from the 🇪🇸 University of the Basque Country as a visiting researcher for a three-month research stay in our research group
10.07.21 — GECCO 2021 is on the starting blocks — looking forward to meeting you there!
06.06.21 — New report on the Implications of the number of objectives in many-objective optimization
31.05.21 — The EvoCOP conference obtained a Rank B in CORE 2021
28.04.21 — Chairing the GdR RO-MH2PPC tutorial of Jin-Kao Hao at ROADEF 2021
26.04.21 — Attending ROADEF 2021 (online)
12.04.21 — New workshop paper on ParadisEO accepted at GECCO 2021
12.04.21 — I've been appointed as the Responsible for Communication at the Computer Science Department, Univ Lille
08.04.21 — Congrats to Raphaël Cosson for presenting his first paper at EvoCOP 2021
07.04.21 — Attending EvoCOP 2021 (online)
29.03.21 — Our paper on Landscape features and algorithm selection for MO interpolated problems is nominated for the GECCO 2021 best paper award (EMO track)
29.03.21 — Attending EMO 2021 (online)
26.03.21 — New papers accepted at GECCO 2021
25.02.21 — Our paper on Decomposition-based multi-objective landscape features and algorithm selection is nominated for the EvoCOP 2021 best paper award
20.01.21 — New paper accepted at EvoCOP 2021
11.01.21 — I've been appointed as the Virtualization chair for GECCO 2021
14.12.20 — GECCO 2021 is going online (deadline: January 28, 2021)
04.12.20 — Upcoming workshop on Landscape-aware heuristic search at GECCO 2021 (deadline: April 12, 2021)
06.11.20 — Attending the 🇫🇷/🇩🇪/🇯🇵 symposium on Human-centric artificial intelligence (online)
09.11.20 — Attending the Lorentz Center workshop on Optimization meets machine learning (online)
20.10.20 — Congratulations to Sarah Thomson from 🇬🇧 Univ Stirling for successfully defending her PhD thesis viva
06.09.20 — Presenting our tutorial on Fitness landscape analysis at PPSN 2020, /w B Derbel & S Verel [ slides ]
05.09.20 — In 🇳🇱 Leiden, for PPSN 2020
01.08.20 — Back from 🇯🇵 Japan after a six month CNRS sabbatical at JFLI (IRL 3527) — Univ Tokyo
12.07.20 — GECCO 2021 will be held in 🇫🇷 Lille on July 10-14, 2021 — looking forward to welcoming you in Lille!
16.04.20 — Congrats to Geoffrey Pruvost for presenting his first paper at EvoCOP 2020
14.04.20 — New paper accepted at Journal of Global Optimization
21.03.20 — New papers accepted at GECCO 2020
01.02.20 — Arrived in 🇯🇵 Japan for a six month CNRS sabbatical at JFLI (IRL 3527) — Univ Tokyo
31.01.20 — Our MODŌ lab paper on Dynamic compartmental models is nominated for the EvoCOP 2020 best paper award
12.01.20 — In 🇩🇪 Dagstuhl, for Seminar 20031 on Scalability in multiobjective optimization
08.01.20 — New papers accepted at EvoCOP 2020
27.11.19. I will give a tutorial on Fitness landscape analysis at PPSN 2020, /w Bilel Derbel and Sébastien Verel
05.11.19. Welcome to Kazuki Maeda and Kyo Migishima from Shinshu Univ for a one-month internship, as a part of the MODŌ lab
04.11.19. Elected as a member of the national council of universities CNU 27 for the 2020-2023 term
14.10.19. In Coimbra for a few days, as a part of the MOCO-SEARCH project (CNRS/FCT)
03.10.19. Happy to welcome Minami Miyakawa from Shinshu Univ for one week, as a part of the MODŌ lab
18.09.19. Happy to welcome Philippe Codognet, head of the JFLI, in Lille
05.09.19. New paper on landscape analysis and performance prediction accepted at IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
01.09.19. Welcome to Alexandre Jesus, joint PhD student with Univ. Coimbra, who will stay in Lille for one year
16.07.19. Congrats to Nicolas Berveglieri for presenting his first paper on surrogate-assisted multiobjective optimization at GECCO 2019
15.07.19. Chairing the EMO track for three days at GECCO 2019 (Prague, Czech Republic)
14.07.19. Workshop on Landscape-aware heuristic search at GECCO 2019 (Prague, Czech Republic)
13.07.19. In Prague, for GECCO 2019
11.07.19. Happy to host the CIMO 2019 workshop for two days at Univ Lille, France
01.07.19. Happy to welcome Darrell Whitley from Colorado State Univ as an invited professor for a one-month visit in our research group
19.06.19. Presenting our work on multi-objective landscape analysis at "30 minutes de sciences", Inria
04.06.19. Congratulations to Hugo Monzón for being nominated for the best paper award in the the GECCO 2019 student workshop
22.05.19. Visiting the Office for Science & Technology from the French Embassy in Japan to discuss about MODŌ
21.05.19. Visiting the CNRS office in Tokyo to discuss about MODŌ
15.05.19. Visiting the Japanese branch of MODŌ in Shinshu University (Nagano, JP) for two weeks
02.05.19. Happy to welcome Xiaohua Jia, Sam Kwong, and Qingfu Zhang from CityU (HK) in Lille
26.04.19. Congratulations to F. Chicano, G. Ochoa, D. Whitley and R. Tinós for the EvoCOP 2019 best paper award
25.04.19. In Leipzig, chairing EvoCOP 2019
18.03.19. The proceedings of EvoCOP 2019 are available online, congratulations to the authors!
01.04.19. Our group is hosting Luís Paquete from Univ. Coimbra (PT) for one week, as a part of the MOCO-SEARCH project (CNRS/FCT)
21.03.19. New paper accepted at GECCO 2019
13.03.19. Congratulations to Yuri Marca for being awarded the best student paper award with our joint EMO 2019 paper!
24.02.19. Happy to welcome students from Shinshu University (Japan) in Lille for intensive french language and culture
26.10.18. In Coimbra for one week, for the kick-off of the MOCO-SEARCH project (CNRS/FCT)
01.10.18. We are happy to welcome Nicolas Berveglieri and Geoffrey Pruvost, who start their PhD in our group today
14.09.18. New project on three-fold decomposition in multi-objective optimization (D3MO, 2018—20) with Univ Exeter (UK)
08.09.18. In Coimbra for PPSN 2018
17.08.18. I will be co-chairing the EMO track at GECCO 2019, /w Jonathan Fieldsend
15.07.18. In Kyoto for GECCO 2018
12.07.18. In Nagano for the CIMO 2018 workshop
12.07.18. In Nagano for the inauguration of Univ Lille's satellite office at Shinshu Univ, as a part of the MODŌ lab
13.04.18. I will be co-chairing EvoCOP 2019 /w Luís Paquete
04.04.18. In Parma, chairing EvoCOP 2018
24.03.18. New papers accepted at GECCO 2018
23.03.18. New project on exact methods and heuristics for multi-objective search (MOCO-SEARCH, 2018—21) with Univ Coimbra (PT)
23.03.18. Our group is hosting Hernán Aguirre from Shinshu Univ (JP) for two weeks as an Invited Professor at Univ Lille – LIA-MODŌ
19.03.18. The proceedings of EvoCOP 2018 are available online, congratulations to the authors!
12.03.18. Our group is hosting Kiyoshi Tanaka & Daisuke Tsuda from Shinshu Univ (JP) for a few days, as a part of the LIA-MODŌ
12.12.17. Inauguration of Shinshu Univ's satellite office at Univ Lille, as a part of the LIA-MODŌ
11.12.17. Congratulations to Bilel Derbel for his successful habilitation defense!
10.12.17. Our group is hosting Hernán Aguirre and Kiyoshi Tanaka from Shinshu Univ (JP) for a few days
07.12.17. Our workshop proposal on Landscape-aware heuristic search has been accepted at GECCO 2018
02.12.17. Our paper on multi-objective landscape analysis appears in the current issue of Evolutionary Computation
13.11.17. Congratulations to Jialong Shi for being awarded the best student paper award with our joint SEAL 2017 paper!
28.10.17. In Hong Kong for one week, visiting Qingfu Zhang at CityU (HK)
25.10.17. In Paris, for EA 2017
19.07.17. Congratulations to Alexandre Jesus for being awarded with an FCT PhD grant
16.07.17. Workshop on Landscape-aware heuristic search, GECCO 2017 (Berlin, Germany)
07.07.17. I will serve as the Proceedings Chair for GECCO 2018
03.07.17. In Matsumoto, for the signature ceremony of our International Associated Laboratory (MODŌ) with Shinshu University (JP)
28.06.17. In Japan for one week, to sign our International Associated Laboratory LIA-MODŌ with Shinshu Univ (JP)
12.06.17. Our group is hosting Manuel López-Ibáñez from Univ Manchester (UK) for one week
08.06.17. Chairing our special session on Fitness landscape analysis for intelligent optimization (CEC 2017, deadline: Jan 30, 2017)
05.06.17. Presenting our tutorial on Fitness landscape analysis (CEC 2017), /w Sébastien Verel [ slides ]
04.06.17. In San Sebastián for CEC 2017, presenting our work on multi-objective landscape analysis and parallel tabu search for UBQP
08.05.17. I will be co-chairing EvoCOP 2018 /w Manuel López-Ibáñez
30.04.17. In Japan for one month, visiting Hernán Aguirre and Kiyoshi Tanaka at Shinshu Univ (JP)
10.04.17. Our group is hosting Qingfu Zhang from CityU (HK) for one week
01.04.17. Scientific starting date for our FR/HK BigMO project
20.03.17. New conference paper accepted, GECCO 2017
19.03.17. In Münster for EMO 2017, presenting our work on multi-objective landscape analysis
13.03.17. Our group is hosting Kiyoshi Tanaka (Shinshu Univ., JP)
23.02.17. New IEEE CIS Task Force on Decomposition-based Techniques in Evolutionary Computation (chair: Ke Li)
04.02.17. In Portugal for one week, visiting Luis Paquete (Univ. Coimbra, PT) and José Rui Figueira (Univ. Lisbon, PT)
17.01.17. New MOEA/D website is up (subscribe to the MOEA/D mailing-list)
09.01.17. New conference paper accepted, EvoCOP 2017
25.11.16. Our group is hosting Q. Zhang (CityU, HK) for one week
08.11.16. Our group is hosting H. Aguirre, K. Tanaka (Shinshu Univ., JP) and F. Daolio (Univ. Stirling, UK) for one week
07.11.16. New bilateral ANR/RGC project on "big multi-objective optimization" (BigMO, 2017—21), between CityU (HK) and Dolphin (Univ. Lille, Inria, FR)
03.11.16. Invited talk on "Designing and understanding EMO algorithms" at CityU (HK)
29.10.16. Visiting Q. Zhang's research group, CityU (HK) for one week
28.09.16. New conference paper accepted, IEEE MCDM 2016
20.09.16. New journal paper accepted, Evolutionary Computation (MIT)
17.09.16. In Edinburgh for PPSN 2016, presenting our work on multi-objective local search and on fitness landscapes, problems features and performance prediction
14.06.16. Visiting LERIA, Université d'Angers (FR)
26.05.16. Visiting Shinshu University (Nagano, JP) for one week
15.04.16. Our group is hosting Oliver Cuate (Cinvestav-IPN, MX) as a visiting PhD student for two months
04.04.16. Our group is hosting Miyako Sagawa (Shinshu University, JP) as a visiting PhD student for three months
20.03.16. New conference papers accepted, GECCO 2016
18.03.16. New bilateral Lille/Shinshu project "massive optimization" (project in support of internationalization, Univ. Lille 1, 2016—18)
07.03.16. Final workshop of our Japanese-French JSPS-MEXT project and visit in Shinshu University (Nagano, JP) for one week
16.02.16. Our group is hosting Luis Paquete (University of Coimbra, PT) as a visiting professor for one week
05.02.16. New bilateral Lille/Shinshu project "analytics- and learning-driven multi-objective optimization" (BQR, Univ. Lille 1, 2016)
17.12.15. Invited talk on "multi-objective fitness landscapes and the feature-based design and performance of EMO algorithms" at Shinshu University (Nagano, JP)
16.12.15. Visiting Shinshu University (Nagano, JP) for one week
05.11.15. Our group is hosting Oliver Schütze (CINVESTAV-IPN, MX) as a visiting professor for one week
26.10.15. In Lyon for EA 2015
31.08.15. Summer seminar of our Japanese-French JSPS-MEXT project in Lille (FR)
17.08.15. Our group is hosting Prof. Hernan Aguirre (Shinshu University, JP) as a visiting professor for one month
26.07.15. New conference paper accepted, MICAI 2015
15.07.15. Our paper on fitness landscape analysis and search performance won the best paper award at the ECOM track of GECCO 2015
30.06.15. Visiting LERIA, Université d'Angers (FR)
13.06.15. Our paper on fitness landscape analysis and search performance is nominated for the best paper at the ECOM track of GECCO 2015
19.05.15. In Nagano (Japan), visiting Shinshu University
29.04.15. In Guimarães (Portugal) for EMO 2015
20.03.15. New conference papers accepted, GECCO 2015
27.02.15. Our feature cluster on EMO has been published in EJOR
16.02.15. Our group is hosting Prof. Qingfu Zhang as a visiting researcher
Upcoming event: Special session "fitness landscape analysis and search space structure", CEC 2015 (deadline: Dec 19, 2014)
02.06.14. In Nagano for a two-month visit at Shinshu University (JP)
24.05.14. New journal paper accepted, European Journal of Operational Research
06.01.14. In Nagano (Japan), visiting Shinshu University
13.11.13. New paper accepted, Applied Soft Computing
Upcoming event: Special issue on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, European Journal of Operational Research (deadline: Sep 30 Oct 31, 2013)
21.10.13. In Bordeaux for EA 2013
02.09.13. In Leiden (Lorentz Center) for SIMCO
10.06.13. In Quiberon for AESS 2013
08.06.13. New paper accepted, Journal of Heuristics
14.03.13. New paper accepted, GECCO 2013
20.02.13. New paper accepted, Bioinformatics
06.12.12. New paper accepted, European Journal of Operational Research
05.09.12. Visit in I3S, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
Upcoming event: Special session "problem structure vs. algorithm performance in multiobjective combinatorial optimization", LION 2013
20.07.12. EO & ParadisEO hack day, Thales Research & Technology
08.07.12. In Vilnius for EURO 2012
12.06.12. In Quiberon for EEEA 2012
11.04.12. In Angers for ROADEF 2012
28.02.12. New paper accepted, Evolutionary Computation
17.02.12. Post-doc position (INRIA) on set-based multi-objective local search (closed)
28.07.11. New paper accepted, Journal of Heuristics
12.07.11. In Dublin for GECCO 2011
29.04.11. Best paper award, EvoCOP 2011
05.04.11. New paper accepted, Journal of Heuristics
24.03.11. New papers accepted, GECCO 2011
05.03.11. New project, founded by the GdR-RO (CNRS)
13.01.11. New papers accepted, EvoCOP 2011
03.01.11. Visit to LERIA, University of Angers, France
28.11.10. New papers accepted, LION 5
24.07.10. New journal paper, European Journal of Operational Research
12.07.10. New conference abstracts, META 2010
12.07.10. Talk, EURO XXIV
02.07.10. New conference paper, ITSC 2010
01.07.10. ParadisEO 1.3-beta is available for download
15.04.10. Talk, URPDM 2010
04.04.10. New short journal paper, 4OR
Upcoming event: special session on Metaheuristics for Multiobjective Optimization at META 2010
01.01.10. New journal paper, European Journal of Operational Research