Publications

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  • Stochastic Local Search Algorithms for the Direct Aperture Optimisation Problem in IMRT. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Ignacio Araya, Denisse Soto and Guillermo Cabrera-Guerrero. International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11299, pages 108–123, Springer Cham, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05983-5_8
  • Effect of transformations of numerical parameters in automatic algorithm configuration. Alberto Franzin, Leslie Pérez Cáceres and Thomas Stützle. Optimization Letters, vol. 12, issue 8, pages 1741–1753, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-018-1240-3
  • Exploring variable neighborhood search for automatic algorithm configuration. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Thomas Stützle. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, vol. 58, pages 167–174, Elsevier, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endm.2017.03.022
  • Evaluating random forest models for irace. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Bernd Bischl, Thomas Stützle. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, pages 1146–1153, ACM, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3067695.3082057
  • An experimental study of adaptive capping in irace. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Manuel López Ibáñez, Holger H. Hoss, Thomas Stützle. Proceedings of the 11th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference, LION11, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10556, pages 235–250. Springer International Publishing, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69404-7_17
  • Automatic configuration of GCC using irace. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Federico Pagnozzi, Alberto Franzin, Thomas Stützle. Artificial Evolution 2017. Proceedings of the 13th Biennal International Conference on Artificial Evolution, pages 202–215. Paris, France, 2017. Preliminary version: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries/link/IridiaTr2017-008.pdf
  • Configuring irace using surrogate configuration benchmarks. Best Paper Award, ECOM track, GECCO 2017. Nguyen Dang, Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Patrick De Causmaecker, Thomas Stützle. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 243–250. ACM, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3071178.3071238
  • Effect of the transformations of numerical parameters in automatic algorithm configuration. Alberto Franzin, Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Thomas Stützle. Submitted to Optimization Letters, Springer. Under review (September 2017). Preliminary version: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries/link/IridiaTr2017-006.pdf
  • The irace package: Iterated racing for automatic algorithm configuration. Manuel López Ibáñez, Jérémie Dubois-lacoste, Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Thomas Stützle. Operations Research Perspectives, vol. 3, pages 43–58. Elsevier, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orp.2016.09.002
  • Ant colony optimization on a limited budget of evaluations. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Thomas Stützle. Swarm Intelligence, vol. 9(2-3), pages 103–124. Springer, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11721-015-0106-x
  • Solving scheduling tournament problems using a new version of CLONALG. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, María Cristina Riff. In Connection Science, vol. 27, pages 5–21. Taylor & Francis. 2015.
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2014.944099
  • An analysis of parameters of irace. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Thomas Stützle. In European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8600, pages 37–48. Springer, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44320-0_4
  • Ant Colony Optimization on a Budget of 1000. Nominated for the best paper award at ANTS 2014. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Thomas Stützle. In Swarm Intelligence, 9th International Conference, ANTS 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8667, pages 50–61. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09952-1_5
  • Towards a population-based framework for improving stochastic local search algorithms. Ignacio Araya, Leslie Pérez Cáceres, María Cristina Riff. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 337–344. ACM. 2012.
  • Are State-of-the-Art Fine-Tuning Algorithms Able to Detect a Dummy Parameter?. Elizabeth Montero, María Cristina Riff, Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Carlos Coello Coello. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XII), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7491, pages 306–315, Springer. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32937-1_31
  • AISTTP: an Artificial Immune Algorithm to Solve Traveling Tournament Problems. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, María Cristina Riff. International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, vol. 11. Imperial College Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1469026812500083
  • New bounds for the Relaxed Traveling Tournament Problems using an artificial immune algorithm. Leslie Pérez Cáceres, María Cristina Riff. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), pages 873–879. IEEE, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2011.5949710