Overview

The task force will focus on the following activities to promote research in automated algorithm design, configuration and selection:

• Special sessions and workshops at evolutionary computation conferences such as CEC, GECCO, PPSN

• Tutorials on these topics at evolutionary computation conferences such as CEC, GECCO, PPSN

• Special issues of journals dedicated to automated algorithm design, configuration and selection

• Development of publicly available tools to promote research in the field

Recent Calls

• Call for Participation: Machine Learning for Evolutionary Computation - for Vehicle Routing Problems (ML4VRP), GECCO 2023 | 15-19 July - Lisbon, Portugal

Some 2023 Activities

• Competition at GECCO 2023 Topic Model Tuning (Per Instance Algorithm Configuration problem)(Markus Wagner)

• GECCO 2023 Tutorial: "Runtime Analysis of population based Evolutionary Algorithms" (Pietro Oliveto)

• GECCO 2023 Tutorial on Automated Algorithm Configuration and Design (Thomas Stützle,Manuel Lopez-Ibanez,Leslie Peréz Cáceres)

•  Dagstuhl Seminar 2023: Synergizing Theory and Practice of Automated Algorithm Design for Optimization (Marius Lindauer)

• Euro Phd School Invited Talk: Efficient algorithm design via automated algorithm selection and configuration (Marius Lindauer)

• Invited talk on “Automated Design of Algorithms” at TU Wien, Computer Science department (Thomas Stützle)

• Keynote Speech: Automated Algorithm Design, the International Conference on Image, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (ICIAAI2023), August 11-13, 2023, Singapore(Mustafa Misir)

• IEEE Symposium on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection 2023 (Nelishia Pillay, Rong Qu)

• IEEE CEC Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Automated Design of Machine Learning and Search (Jorge Mario Cruz-Duarte, Ivan Amaya, and Nelishia Pillay)