IEEE Task Force on Large-Scale Global Optimization

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Objectives

The objectives of this task force are:

  1. To promote the research and development of evolutionary computation techniques for large scale optimization problems.

  2. To facilitate the knowledge sharing and collaboration between researchers in the related areas. There are many people, from Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Operation Research, etc., interested in large scale global optimization. But they are scattered in different places and in different conferences. One of the major aims of this TF is to provide a common forum for all these people to come together and exchange ideas. ECTC is ideally positioned to attract all these people and provide a home to these distributed groupings in different communities (from CS to Math and from OR to Engineering).

  3. To exchange experience and promote discussion and contacts between researchers, industrialists and practitioners. The TF will actively recruit and engage industrialists and practitioners in its activities. In particular, the TF will solicit “grand challenges” in large scale global optimization, especially from industrialists and practitioners. Such “grand challenges” will then be put on the web to promote research into novel techniques for tackling such challenges. The existing infrastructure at the University of Birmingham can be used for such purpose: EvoCoBR.

Anticipated interests

Evolutionary computation for large scale optimization is an inter-disciplinary topic that is closely related to parallelization of EAs, coevolution, EC assisted with meta-models, etc. Specifically, the anticipated interest of the proposed task force includes:

  1. EC for large scale single objective numerical optimization, where the problem involves a large number of decision variables.

  2. EC for large scale combinatorial optimization, such as the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), Vehicle/Arc Routing Problem (VRP/ARP), scheduling problem and etc.

  3. EC for large scale multi-objective optimization. In the context of MO, the term “large scale” may refer to either large number of decision variables or objectives, or both.

  4. Application of large scale EC techniques in challenging real-world problems.

Proposed activities

  1. Organize workshops (e.g., IEEE Symp.)
  2. Organize special sessions at international conferences (e.g., CEC)
  3. Organize journal special issues

Special Sessions

Special Session and Competition on Large-Scale Global Optimization

This Special Session and Competition will be held at WCCI 2018, 8-13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Special Session and Competition on Large-Scale Global Optimization

This Special Session and Competition will be held at CEC'2019, 8-13 July 2019, New Zealand

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IEEE CEC'2021 Special Session and Competition on Large-Scale Global Optimization

This Special Session and Competition will be held at IEEE CEC'2021, 28 June - 1 July 2021 Kraków, Poland

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GECCO 2022 Workshop on Large-Scale Evolutionary Optimization and Learning (LEOL)

This Special Session and Competition will be held at GECCO'2022, 19-24th July 2020, Glasglow (UK)

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GECCO 2023 Workshop on Large-Scale Evolutionary Optimization and Learning (LEOL)

This Special Session and Competition will be held at GECCO'2023, 15-19th July 2023, Lisbon (Portugal)

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Previous Special Sessions and Competition on Large-Scale Global Optimization

List of Special Sessions

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Special Session and Competition on LSGO on WCCI'2020

This Special Session and Competition will be held at WCCI CEC'2020, 19-24th July 2020, Glasglow (UK)

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