Sunday, 16th of July, 8:30 - 10:20am
Room Madrid, F12, Altis Grand Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal
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A platform to come together and to discuss recent progress and challenges in the area of benchmarking optimization heuristics.
This workshop will continue our workshop series that we started in 2020. The core theme is on benchmarking evolutionary computation methods and related sampling-based optimization heuristics, but each year, we will change the focus.
The focus in 2023 is mixed-integer optimization.
While the term "mixed-integer optimization" is misleading, the topic is a rather demanding one for benchmarking and the EC community in general. The term refers to problems that do not solely feature continuous or discrete variables but a mixed set of discrete, categorical, continuous, etc. variables. Thus, a broad variety of problems is covered which has not been addressed adequately, neither in benchmarking, nor in EC research at all.
Within the workshop, we have invited talks of about 15 minutes to different subtopics of mixed-integer optimization and will allow ample time for the discussion of the addressed subtopics. After the talks, we continue with a panel discussion of highly renowned researchers in the field.
Welcome & Opening by the workshop organizers
Invited talk: Mario Andrés Muñoz Acosta
Distribution Network Topology Identification - Generating multiple instances for algorithm benchmarking
Invited talk: Thomas Bäck
Reflections on mixed-integer global optimization
Invited talk: Tea Tušar
Two suites of mixed-integer optimization problems
Discussion with panel and all workshop participants
Panel members:
BBOB team
Mario Andrés Muñoz Acosta
Thomas Bäck
Carlos Fonseca
Closing, wrap-up, future of the benchmarking network
Carola Doerr (CNRS researcher at Sorbonne University, Paris, France)
Vanessa Volz (modl.ai, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Pascal Kerschke (TU Dresden, Germany)
Olaf Mersmann (TH Cologne, Germany)
Boris Naujoks (TH Cologne, Germany)
Mike Preuss (LIACS, Leiden University)
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2023), which will be held as a hybrid event (online & onsite in Lisbon, Portugal)