The Benchmarking Network is an initiative that has emerged in summer 2019, with the idea to consolidate and to stimulate activities on benchmarking iterative optimization heuristics such as local search algorithms, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence techniques, estimation of distribution algorithms, model-based heuristics, surrogate-based optimization, etc - in short, all algorithms that work by a sequential evaluation of solution candidates.
We are an informal network of international researchers and practitioners using heuristic optimization methods.
You can participate in various different ways:
Sign up for the discussion group here: Benchmarking Network Google Group
Let us know about your events related to benchmarking heuristic optimization techniques, by posting them in the Google Group or by contacting the coordinating members of the Benchmarking Network
Contact a coordinating member of the Benchmarking Network if you want to be more closely involved in the planning of events and dissemination of results.
We also welcome suggestions for topics to be added to this website, as well as pointers to resources that should not be missed!
We are excited that the SIGEVO board has accepted our proposal to establish a new track on Benchmarking, Benchmarks, Software, and Reproducibility (BBSR) at our main conference, GECCO, starting in 2024. More information about this new track is available here.
CECCO 2025 Workshop: Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation
COST action CA22137 Randomised Optimisation Algorithms Research Network (ROAR-NET)
PPSN 2024 Workshop: Good Benchmarking Practices in Evolutionary Computation
GECCO 2024 Workshop: Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation
Lorentz Center workshop BeMCO - Benchmarking in Multi-Criteria Optimisation (April 2024)
Dagstuhl seminar 23251 Challenges in Benchmarking Optimization Heuristics (June 2023)