1st International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Massive Optimization (CIMO 2018)

July 12-13, 2018 — Nagano, Japan

@ contact

Overview

This is the first event of the CIMO workshop series. It will take place from July 12 to July 13, 2018 on the Engineering Campus of Shinshu University, in Nagano (Japan). The CIMO workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in developing integrated computational intelligence techniques into advanced (evolutionary) optimization paradigms for solving massive optimization problems. Boosted by the recent creation of the international associated laboratory MODŌ, this thematic workshop targets an international audience, with a particular emphasis in strengthening the long history and sustained scientific relations and collaborations between France and Japan. The program will consist of talks and posters about late-breaking research reflecting the state-of-the-art of evolutionary computation for massive optimization, and will provide many opportunities to interact with other attendees in order to encourage international cooperation and to favor the education of young researchers.

Topics of Interests

Optimization is ubiquitous to countless modern engineering and scientific applications. Today’s increasingly complex problems require to push the boundaries of existing optimization approaches, and to design innovative flexible general-purpose computational intelligence algorithms able to efficiently and effectively tackle them. Such massive optimization problems raise new important and difficult scientific challenges because of their dimensionality in terms of variables and objectives, their heterogeneity, and their expensive nature.

What?   Massive optimization problems

• Large-scale optimization — variable space dimensionality

• Any-objective optimization — single-, multi-, and many-objective optimization

• Cross-domain optimization — heterogeneous continuous/combinatorial/mixed representations

• Expensive optimization — costly/simulation-based black-box evaluations

How?   Massive optimization algorithms

• Landscape-aware algorithm design/configuration/selection

• Model-assisted and machine learning-enhanced autonomous algorithms 

• Decomposition-based and other search paradigms, and their design principles 

• Decentralized algorithms and parallel/distributed computing

Program

Opening — Welcome words

Chair: Kiyoshi Tanaka — Shinshu University

Thursday, July 12, 13:00—14:00

• • Welcome Message

  • Kunihiro Hamada — President, Shinshu University

  • Greeting Message

  • François-Olivier Seys — Vice-President for International Relations, University of Lille

  • Celebrating Message

  • Jean-Christophe Auffray — Counsellor for Science and Technology, French Embassy in Japan

  • Emma-Louise Scappaticci — Project Manager for IT and Green Technologies, French Embassy

  • Greeting Message

  • Jacques Maleval — Director of CNRS office in Tokyo

  • Introduction of Research Activities at Shinshu University

  • Soichiro Nakamura — Vice-President for Research, Shinshu University

  • Introduction of Research Activities at CRIStAL

  • Olivier Colot — Director of the CRIStAL research center (UMR 9189, Univ Lille, CNRS, EC Lille)

Session #1 — Landscape Analysis

Thursday, July 12, 14:00—15:30

Chair: Sébastien Verel — Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale

• • Constraint Handling of Evolutionary Search Guided by Landscape Analysis 

  • Katherine Malan — University of South Africa

  • The Cartography of Computational Search Spaces

  • Gabriela Ochoa — University of Stirling

  • On Pareto Local Optimal Solutions Networks

  • Arnaud Liefooghe — University of Lille

  • Landscape-Aware Automatic Algorithm Configuration

  • Bilel Derbel — University of Lille

Session #2 — Multi-objective Optimization

Thursday, July 12, 16:00—17:30

Chair: Arnaud Liefooghe — University of Lille

• • Semi-interactive Design of Bi-objective Optimizers

  • Manuel López-Ibáñez — University of Manchester

  • R-Metric: Evaluating the Performance of Preference-Based EMO Using Reference Points

  • Ke Li — University of Exeter

  • Closed State Model for Analyzing the Dynamics and Performance of MOEAs

  • Hugo Monzón — Shinshu University

  • Multi-objective Optimization Problems with a Complex Topology

  • Yuri Marca — Shinshu University

Session #3 — Model-assisted Optimization

Friday, July 13, 09:00—10:15

Chair: Hernán Aguirre — Shinshu University

• • Gray-box Optimization for Million Variable Pseudo-Boolean Problems

  • Francisco Chicano — University of Malaga

  • A Surrogate Model based on Walsh Decomposition for Pseudo-Boolean Functions

  • Sébastien Verel — Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale

  • Model-assisted and Machine Learning-enhanced Autonomous Algorithms

  • Roberto Santana — University of the Basque Country

Session #4 — Applications

Friday, July 13, 10:45—12:15

Chair: Bilel Derbel — University of Lille

• • Model-based Optimization of Steel Production

  • Bogdan Filipic — Jozef Stefan Institute

  • Preliminary Study on Multi-objective Optimization for Improving Air Traffic Management

  • Tomoaki Tatsukawa — Tokyo University of Science

  • Towards Benchmarking Multi-objective Optimizers with Real-World Problems

  • Tea Tusar — Jozef Stefan Institute

  • Sustainable Mobility Systems

  • Hernán Aguirre — Shinshu University

Registration

Registration is free, but mandatory; the number of participants being limited.

If you have any question, feel free to @ contact us

List of Participants

• Arnaud Liefooghe — University of Lille, France

• Bilel Derbel — University of Lille, France

• Bogdan Filipič — Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

• Darrell Whitley — Colorado State University, USA

• Florian Leprêtre — Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, France

• Francisco Chicano — University of Málaga, Spain

• Gabriela Ochoa — University of Stirling, UK

• Hernán Aguirre — Shinshu University, Japan

• Hugo Monzón — Shinshu University, Japan

• Katherine Malan — University of South Africa, South Africa

• Ke Li — University of Exeter, UK

• Kiyoshi Tanaka — Shinshu University, Japan

• Manuel López-Ibáñez — University of Manchester, UK

• Nadarajen Veerapen — University of Stirling, UK

• Nicolas Berveglieri — University of Lille, France

• Omar Abdelkafi — University of Lille, France

• Qingfu Zhang — City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Roberto Santana — University of the Basque Country, Spain

• Taishi Ito — Shinshu University, Japan

• Sébastien Verel — Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, France

• Tea Tušar — Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

• Tomoaki Tatsukawa — Tokyo University of Science, Japan

• Yuri Pereira Marca — Shinshu University, Japan

Location

Shinshu University, Nagano-Engineering Campus (Japan)

📌 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano City, 380-8553 Japan

The workshop will be held in building E2 (2F)

Access

The workshop venue is located at 20 minutes walk from the JR Nagano Station (East exit).

Accommodation

Our suggestion is to find an accommodations in the city centre, close to the JR Nagano station (20 minutes walk from the workshop location).

Few options are listed below:

• Hotel Metropolitan Nagano

• Chisun Grand Nagano

• Hotel Sunroute Nagano

• Hotel Sunroute Nagano-Higashiguchi

Organizing Committee

• Hernán Aguirre — Shinshu University (Japan)

• Bilel Derbel — Univ. Lille (France)

• Arnaud Liefooghe — Univ. Lille (France)

• Hugo Monzón — Shinshu University (Japan)

• Kiyoshi Tanaka — Shinshu University (Japan)

• Sébastien Verel — Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale (France)

If you have any question, feel free to @ contact us