Automating the design of new heuristics that are suitable for a given optimization problem instance is a core research objective in computational intelligence. It is a demanding task, as it requires a solid understanding of the complex interactions between the algorithm configuration space and the problem space. Many different techniques for the automated selection, configuration, and design of black-box optimization algorithms co-exist, in a yet very unorganized way across different sub-domains of evolutionary computation, machine learning, and operations research.
This special session intends to bring together researchers interested in the automated design of optimization algorithms for black-box optimization. No restriction will be made on the particular application domain, i.e, we are equally interested in combinatorial/discrete/numerical/mixed-integer optimization, noisy/non-noisy settings, static/dynamic problems, single-/multi-objective optimization, different performance metrics, etc. The unifying theme are the approaches that are used to automate algorithms’ design.
All submissions should follow the CEC2023 submission guidelines provided at IEEE CEC 2023 Submission Website. Special session papers are treated the same as regular conference papers. Please specify that your paper is for the Special Session on AAD4EC: Automated Algorithm Design for Evolutionary Computation. All papers accepted and presented at CEC 2023 will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Explore.
In order to participate to this special session, full or student registration of CEC 2023 is needed.
Computer Systems Depratment
Jožef Stefan Institue, Slovenia
University of Manchester, UK
CNRS, LIP6
Sorbonne University, France
Computer Systems Depratment
Jožef Stefan Institue, Slovenia