Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Management positions in scientific organisations

international

• THRaSH, Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics workshop: Anne Auger, member of Steering Committee

• ACM SIGEVO (Special Interest Group on Evolutionary Computation), Marc Schoenauer, member of Executive Board since 2000, officer (Secretary) since 2012; member of Business Committe (2011-2013). Anne Auger, member of Executive Board since 2011.

• Parallel Problem Solving from Nature: Marc Schoenauer, Member of Steering Committee, (since 1998).

• PASCAL NoE (Pattern Analysis, Statistical modelling, Computational Learning), Michèle Sebag, member of the Steering Committee (PASCAL 2004-2008; PASCAL2, 2009-2013).

• European Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery from Databases Steering Committee, Michèle Sebag, member since 2010;

• ECCAI Fellow, Michèle Sebag, since 2011;

• LION (Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN), Marc Schoenauer, member of the Steering Committee since 2012,

• Marc Schoenauer, Honorary Adjunct Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia (2009-2015).

national

• Michèle Sebag, member of the CoNRS; Senior Advisory Board CHIST-ERA; member of the CSFRS (Conseil Supérieur de la Formation et Recherche Stratégique);

• EA – Association Evolution Artificielle: Marc Schoenauer, founding president, now member of Advisory Committee. Anne Auger, member of Executive Commitee since 2008.

Université Paris-Sud

• Jamal Atif, “Directeur d'études” at Computer Science department of IUT d'Orsay ; membre de la CCSU 27 (membre du Bureau) since 2012; membre élu au conseil d'Institut, IUT d'Orsay ; membre du Bureau du département Informatique de l'IUT d'Orsay since 2011.

• Anne Auger, membre du Conseil du Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique since 2012;

• Philippe Caillou, membre élu du Conseil Scientifique et au Conseil Académique de l'université since 2013, directeur des études à l'IUT de Sceaux since 2009

• Cécile Germain-Renaud, elected memeber of the Scientific Council and of its board. University officer for scientific computing. Deputy head of the computer science departement, in charge of research.

• Michèle Sebag, membre élu du Conseil du Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et membre de la CCSU 27 since 2004.

Université Paris-Saclay

• Michèle Sebag, member of the Senate at Université Paris-Saclay; Member of the Executive committee and responsible for the DataSense axis, DigiCosme Labex;

• Marc Schoenauer, Member of the Executive committee and chair of the Research Committee, DigiCosme Labex;

Inria Saclay

• Anne Auger, membre de la Commission de Suivi Doctoral ; représentante du centre de Saclay à la Commission des Jeunes Chercheurs.

• Marc Schoenauer, Délégué Scientifique (VP for Research).

Scientific events organisation

general chair, scientific chair

• Anne Auger: ES/EP GECCO 2014 track chair

Member of the organizing committee

• HEPML workshop at NIPS 2014: Cecile Germain-Renaud and Balázs Kégl.

• Michèle Sebag, Senior Program Committee, ECAI 2014; Area Chair, IJCAI 2015.

Others

• Anne Auger: Organization of an invited mini-symposium on Function-Value-Free Optimization, SIAM Conference on Optimization, San Diego, USA.

• Anne Auger: Organization of invited session on Recent Advances on Continuous Randomized black-box optimization, PGMO-COPI’14 conference, Paris.

• Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen: Organization of workshops BBOB, IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation 2015, Sendai, Japan and GECCO 2015 Conference Madrid, Spain.

• Anne Auger: Women@GECCO workshop 2014, Vancouver Canada

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference Program Committee

All TAO members are reviewers for the main conferences in Machine Learning (IJCAI, ICML, ECAI, ECML-PKDD, ...) and Evolutionary Computation (ACM GECCO, PPSN, IEEE CEC, EvoStar, ...).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Board

• Anne Auger: Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press.

• Nikolaus Hansen: Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press.

• Marc Schoenauer: Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press, Advisory Board; Kluwer Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Editorial Board; JMLR, Area Editor.

• Michèle Sebag: Machine Learning, Springer Verlag.

Reviewer

Similarly, all TAO members do occasional reviews for the main journals in ML and EC.