Grants & Projects
Grants (as Principal Investigator)
MOCO-SEARCH (2018β20) β Bridging the gap between exact methods and heuristics for multi-objective search
International project for scientific cooperation (PICS), funded by CNRS and FCT
Partners: π΅πΉ Univ Coimbra, π«π· Bonus (Univ Lille)
Principal Investigators: L Paquete (PT), A Liefooghe (FR)
International Associated Laboratory
Partners: π―π΅ Shinshu Univ, π«π· Dolphin (Univ Lille)
Co-directors: H Aguirre (JP), A Liefooghe (FR)
Project in support of internationalization (2016β18) β Massive optimization
Bilateral Lille/Shinshu international project for preparing an international associate laboratory, funded by Univ Lille 1
Partners: π―π΅ Shinshu Univ, π«π· Dolphin (Univ Lille)
Principal Investigator: A Liefooghe
BQR (2016) β Analytics- and learning-driven multi-objective optimization
Bilateral Lille/Shinshu international project (bonus qualitΓ© recherche - collaboration bilatΓ©rale), funded by Univ Lille 1
Partners: π―π΅ Shinshu Univ (JP), π«π· Dolphin (Univ Lille, FR)
Principal Investigator: A Liefooghe
Inria Explorer (2014) β Landscape analysis and algorithm configuration for cross-domain multi-objective optimization
A 9-week visit to Shinshu Univ (JP) funded by Inria
Principal Investigator: A Liefooghe
ADT VRP-solve (2012β14) β Metaheuristic-based solver for vehicle routing
Local project, funded by Inria
Principal Investigators: F Clautiaux, A Liefooghe
GdR-RO project (2011) β Set-based search for multi-objective combinatorial optimization
ADT Paradiseo-MOEO (2008β10) β Metaheuristics for multi-objective optimization in Paradiseo
Local project, funded by Inria
Principal Investigators: L Jourdan, A Liefooghe, EG Talbi
Involvement: co-supervisor of a research engineer (for 2 years)
Grants (as co-Investigator)
πͺπΊ European cooperation in science and technologie
Chair: Carlos Fonseca (Univ Coimbra, Portugal)
Role: member of the working group WP5 on Algorithm selection and configuration, co-coordinator of the task force TF9 on Explainability
Associate team (2018β20) β Three-fold decomposition in multi-objective optimization (D3MO)
Bilateral UK/France international project, funded Inria (associate team program, FR)
Participants: π¬π§ Univ Exeter,Β π«π· Bonus (Inria Lille)
Bilateral Hong-Kong/France international project, funded by RGC (HK) and ANR (FR)
Participants: ππ° CityU, π«π· Dolphin (Univ Lille / Inria)
Role: co-investigator, participant in all work packages, coordinator of the work package on "algorithm configuration, adaptation and landscape analysis"
COST action ImAppNIO (2016β20) β Improving applicability of nature-inspired optimization by joining theory and practice (CA15140)
πͺπΊ European cooperation in science and technologie
Chair: Thomas Jansen (Aberystwyth Univ, UK)
Role: management committee substitute, member of the working groups "practice-driven theory" and "benchmarks"
ECOS project (2016β20) β Evolutionary many-objective optimization: application to smart cities and engineering design
Bilateral Mexico/France international project, co-funded by ANUIES (MX) and ECOS Nord (FR)
Participants: π²π½ Cinvestav, π«π· Dolphin (Univ Lille / Inria)
Principal Investigators: O SchΓΌtze (MX), EG Talbi (FR)
PHC project (2016β18) β Decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary optimization
Bilateral Hong-Kong/France international project, co-funded by RGC (HK) and PHC Procore (FR)Β
Participants: ππ° CityU, π«π· Dolphin (Univ Lille / Inria)
Ayame/Associate team project (2015β17) β Threefold scalability in any-objective black-box optimization (s3-bbo)
Bilateral Japan/France international project, co-funded by JSPS (bilateral joint research project, JP) and Inria (associate team program, FR)
Participants: π―π΅ Shinshu Univ, π«π· Tao (Inria Saclay), π«π· Dolphin (Univ Lille / Inria Lille) β External collaborator: π«π· ULCO (FR)
Coordinators: H Aguirre (Shinshu Univ, JP), A Auger (Inria Saclay, FR)
Role: co-investigator, participant in the work packages on "scalability in objective space" and "scalability in distributed and parallel resources"
JSPS-MEXT project (2013β16) β Global research on the framework of evolutionary solution search to accelerate innovation
Bilateral France/Japan international project, funded by JSPS (Japanese government program, 2013)
Participants: π―π΅ Shinshu Univ, π―π΅ UEC Tokyo, π«π· Tao (Inria Saclay), π«π· ULCO, π«π· Dolphin (Univ Lille 1 / Inria Lille)
Coordinator: K Tanaka (Shinshu Univ, JP)
Role: co-investigator, participant in the work packages on "evolutionary multi- and many-objective optimization" and "landscape analysis and search performance", and co-supervisor of a visiting PhD student (for 1 year), a Post-doc researcher (for 2 years) and another Post-doc researcher (for 1 year)
National project, funded by ANR (French national research agency)
Participants: TAO (Inria Saclay), Dolphin (Inria Lille), Γcole des Mines St Etienne (FR), TU Dortmund (DE)
Coordinator: A Auger (Inria Saclay, FR)
Role: Participant in the work package on "multi-objective optimization"
π΅πΉ International project, funded by FCT (Portuguese foundation for science and technology)
Coordinator: L Paquete (Univ Coimbra, PT)
Role: Participant in the work package on "biobjective pairwise sequence alignment"
International project, funded by Inria
Participants: πͺπΈ Univ Malaga, π«π· Dolphin (Inria Lille)
Coordinator: EG Talbi
Role: Participant in the work package on "multi-objective combinatorial optimization"
Inria 3+3 MΓ©diterranΓ©e project PERFORM (2006β09) β Cooperative metaheuristics for multi-objective optimization
International project, funded by Inria
Participants: πͺπΈ Univ Malaga, π©πΏ Univ Constantine, πΉπ³ Univ Tunis, π«π· Dolphin (Inria Lille)
Role: Participant in the work package on "local search and evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective optimization"
Institutional Partnerships
Collaborative Professor (honorary position), π―π΅ Shinshu Univ, since Jul 2021
Shinshu Univ's satellite office at Univ Lille, π―π΅ Shinshu Univ and π«π· Univ Lille, Dec 2018
Univ Lille's satellite office at Shinshu Univ, π―π΅ Shinshu Univ and π«π· Univ Lille, Jul 2018
International Associated Laboratory MODΕ, π―π΅ Shinshu Univ and π«π·Univ Lille, Jul 2017
Memorandum of understanding, π―π΅ Shinshu Univ and π«π· Inria, Mar 2014
Memorandum of understanding, π―π΅ Shinshu Univ and π«π· Univ Lille, Feb 2014
Industrial Collaborations
Normand-Info (2013) β Online and robust multicriteria scheduling in the medical field (biological sample analysis)