This is the web site for the IEEE Task Force on Large-Scale Global Optimization. Here you will find all the information of the TF, announcements of upcoming events, etc. Please, stay tuned and do not hesitate to contact us for any additional information.
The objectives of this task force are:
To promote the research and development of evolutionary computation techniques for large scale optimization problems.
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).
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.
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:
EC for large scale single objective numerical optimization, where the problem involves a large number of decision variables.
EC for large scale combinatorial optimization, such as the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), Vehicle/Arc Routing Problem (VRP/ARP), scheduling problem and etc.
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.
Application of large scale EC techniques in challenging real-world problems.
This Special Session and Competition will be held at WCCI 2018, 8-13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
View detailsThis Special Session and Competition will be held at CEC'2019, 8-13 July 2019, New Zealand
View detailsThis Special Session and Competition will be held at IEEE CEC'2021, 28 June - 1 July 2021 Kraków, Poland
View detailsThis Special Session and Competition will be held at GECCO'2022, 19-24th July 2020, Glasglow (UK)
View detailsThis Special Session and Competition will be held at GECCO'2023, 15-19th July 2023, Lisbon (Portugal)
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View detailsThis Special Session and Competition will be held at WCCI CEC'2020, 19-24th July 2020, Glasglow (UK)
View detailsThis Special Session and Competition will be held at WCCI 2018, 8-13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The CEC’2017 Special Session on Large Scale Global Optimization will take place in June 5-8, 2017. More info can be found here.
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The CEC’2016 Special Session on Large Scale Global Optimization will take place in July 24-29, 2016. More info can be found here.
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The EUROGEN 2017 Conference will take place in September 13-15, 2017. More info can be found here.
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A benchmarks results repository has been published to allow the seamless comparison of algorithms in LSGO. The repository can be accessed on-line and it can be found here.
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There is a Special Issue in the Information Sciences Journal (ISJ) on “Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Large Scale Global Optimization”. More info can be found here.
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A Tutorial on “Decomposition and Cooperative Coevolution Techniques for Large Scale Global Optimization” will take place at CEC’2015.
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The CEC’2015 Special Session and Competition on Large Scale Global Optimization will take place in May 25-28, 2015. More info can be found here.
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A Tutorial on “Decomposition and Cooperative Coevolution Techniques for Large Scale Global Optimization” will take place at GECCO’2014. More info can be found here.
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The CEC’2014 Special Session on Large Scale Global Optimization will take place in July 5-11, 2014. More info can be found here.
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The CEC’2013 Special Session and Competition on Large Scale Global Optimization will take place in June 20-23, 2013. More info can be found here.
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The CEC’2010 Special Session and Competition on Large Scale Global Optimization will take place in July 18-23, 2010. More info can be found here.
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There is a Special Issue in the Soft Computing Journal on Large Scale Optimization. The submission deadline is: February 28, 2010.
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The CEC’2008 Special Session and Competition on Large Scale Global Optimization will take place in June 1-6, 2008. More info can be found here.
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The website for this Task Force was Launched on November 7, 2007.
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