Events:

Competitions

Eftimov, T., Popovski, G., Škvorc, U., Petelin, G., Hribar, R., and Korošec, P. (2020). Frist ranked team (Winner) at the Open Optimization Competition 2020 at GECCO 2020 and PPSN 2020


Tutorials

Eftimov, T., and Korošec, P. (2021, July). Statistical Analyses for Meta-heuristic Stochastic Optimization Algorithms (Tutorial at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021), Online conference.


Eftimov, T., and Korošec, P. (2021, June). Statistical Analyses for Meta-heuristic Stochastic Optimization Algorithms (Tutorial at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2021), Online conference.


Eftimov, T., and Korošec, P. (2020, September). Next Generation Statistics for Meta-heuristic Stochastic Optimization Algorithms (Tutorial at the 16th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2020), Leiden, The Netherlands.


Eftimov, T., and Korošec, P. (2020, July). Statistical Analyses for Meta-heuristic Stochastic Optimization Algorithms (Tutorial at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020), Cancun, Mexico.


Eftimov, T., Hribar, R., and Korošec, P. (2019, December). Deep Statistics: Next Generation Statistics for Optimization Algorithms (Tutorial at the 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2019), Xiamen, China.

Workshops

Doerr, C., Jurgen, B., Eftimov, T., Kerschke, P., Lopez-Ibanez, M., and Naujoks,B.(2021, July). BENCHMARKING — Benchmarking and Reproducibility/Replicability (Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021), Online conference.


Doerr, C., Eftimov, T., Kerschke, P., Naujoks,B., and Preuss, M. (2021, June). Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation (Workshop at the 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2021), Online conference.


Doerr, C., Eftimov, T., Kerschke, P., Oliveto, S., P., Preuss, M. and others (2020, September). Good Benchamrking Practicies for Evolutionary Computation (Workshop at the 16th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2020), Leiden, The Netherlands.


Eftimov, T., La Cava, W., Najuoks, B., Oliveto, S., P., Volz, V., Weisse, T. and others (2020, July). Good Benchamrking Practicies for Evolutionary Computation (Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020), Cancun, Mexico.


Special Sessions

Eftimov, T., Doerr, C., and Korošec, P. (2021, June). REPL4OPT: Representation Learning meets Meta-heursitic Optimization. (Special Session at the 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2021), Online conference.


Zamuda, A., Eftimov, T., and Picek, S. (2020, July). Benchamrking Practicies of Evolutionary Algorithms for Discrete Optimization (Special Session at the IEEE World Confress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI), 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2020), Glasgow, UK.


Special Issue in Natural Computing

Blum, C., Eftimov, T., and Korošec, P. (2020). Special Issue on Understanding Natural Computing Algorithm Behaviour.


Presentations for Benchmarked: Optimization meets Machine Learning (2020 Lorentz Center Workshop)

Eftimov, T. and Korošec, P., Representation Learning meets Automated Algorithm Selection/Confugiration (Breakout Session)


Eftimov, T., Petelin, G., Hribar, R., Popovski, G., Škvorc, U., and Korošec, P., DSCTool: Deep Statistical Comparison Methodlogies for Stochastic Optimization Algorithms


Eftimov, T., Popovski, G., Renau, Q., Korošec, P., and Doerr, C., LMFE: Linear Matrix Factorization Embeddings for Single-objective Landscapes


Past events (before the project started):


Eftimov, T., Korošec, P., and Blum, C. (2019, June). Understanding of Evolutionary Algorithms Behaviour (Workshop at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand)

Eftimov, T., (2018, November). Deep statistical comparison on meta-heuristic stochastic optimization algorithms. (Invited talk at University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria)

Eftimov, T., and Korošec, P. (2018, September). How to Perform a Proper Statistical Study Analysis? Where we Started and Where are we Now in Statistical Performance Assessment Approaches for Stochastic Optimization Algorithms? (Tutorial at IJCCI 2018, Sevillie, Spain)

Eftimov, T., (2018, May). Deep statistical comparison on meta-heuristic stochastic optimization algorithms. (Invited talk at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius - Univeristy Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia)

Eftimov, T., (2018, April). Deep statistical comparison on meta-heuristic stochastic optimization algorithms. (Invited talk at the 15th International Conference on Informatics and Information Tecnologies, Mavrovo, North Macedonia)