IEEE CEC 2026 Competition on Benchmarking Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization (updated test problems)
IEEE CEC 226 Competition on Multimodal Multiobjective Optimization (new test problems)
GECCO 2025 Competition on Benchmarking Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization, at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2025), organized by Ali Ahrari, Jonathan Fieldsend, Mike Preuss, Xiaodong Li, and Michael Epitropakis” (see competition details and outcome)
GECCO 2024 Competition on Benchmarking Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization, at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2024), organized by Ali Ahrari, Jonathan Fieldsend, Mike Preuss, Xiaodong Li, and Michael Epitropakis” (see competition details and outcome)
GECCO 2020 Competition on Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization, at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020), organized by Mike Preuss, Michael Epitropakis, and Xiaodong Li
Competition series on "Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization", at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2020), organized by Mike Preuss, Michael Epitropakis, and Xiaodong Li.
GECCO 2019 Competition on "Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization", at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2019), organized by Michael Epitropakis, Mike Preuss, Xiaodong Li, and Andries Engelbrecht
GECCO 2018 Competition on "Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization", at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018), organized by Michael Epitropakis, Mike Preuss, Xiaodong Li, and Andries Engelbrecht
Competition series on "Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization", at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2017), organized by Michael Epitropakis, Xiaodong Li, and Andries Engelbrecht
GECCO 2017 Competition on "Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization", at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), organized by Michael Epitropakis, Mike Preuss, Xiaodong Li, and Andries Engelbrecht
Competition series on "Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization", at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2016), organized by Michael Epitropakis, Xiaodong Li, and Andries Engelbrecht
GECCO 2016 Competition on "Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization", at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), organized by Michael Epitropakis, Mike Preuss, Xiaodong Li, and Andries Engelbrecht
Competition series on "Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization", held in CEC2013, CEC2015, organized by Xiaodong Li, Andries Engelbrecht and Michael Epitropakis