Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• L. Jourdan, C. Dhaenens, M-E. Marmion: Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference; LION 9, Lille, FRANCE, Jan. 12-15, 2015.

• N. Melab: Chair of the McM'2015 workshop (Multi/Many-core computing for parallel Metaheuristics) organized in conjunction with MIC'2015, Agadir, June 7^th 2015.

• N. Melab: Chair of 5 simulation and HPC-related seminars at Lille 1 oct-dec. 2015 (UPMC, Nvidia, LATMOS/UPMC, VU Leuven, Intel).

• E-G. Talbi: General chair MIC'2015 Int. Conf. on Metaheuristics, Agadir, Morocco, June 2015.

Member of the organizing committees

• D. Brockhoff: Lorentz Center workshop “SAMCO - Surrogate-Assisted Multi-Criteria Optimization”, Leiden, Netherlands together with Michael Emmerich, Boris Naujoks, and Tobias Wagner, March 2016

• D. Brockhoff: special session on “Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization” at the MCDM'2015 conference, Hamburg, Germany, together with Joshua Knowles, Boris Naujoks, and Karthik Sindhya, August 2015

• D. Brockhoff: GECCO 2015 workshop entitled “Blackbox Optimization Benchmarking”, Madrid, Spain, together with Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen, Olaf Mersmann, and Petr Pošík, July 2015

• D. Brockhoff: CEC 2015 special session entitled “Blackbox Optimization Benchmarking”, Sendai, Japan, together with Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen, Olaf Mersmann, and Petr Pošík, May 2015

• L. Jourdan: MIC'2015 Int. Conf. on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, Agadir, Morocco, June 2015.

• L. Jourdan: EA'2015 Biennial International Conference on Artificial Evolution Publicity chair

• A. Liefooghe: CEC 2015 special session entitled “Fitness landscape analysis and search space structure”, Sendai, Japan, together with Hernan Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka and Sébastien Verel, May 2015

Scientific events selection

Chair of conference program committees

• E-G. Talbi: Track chair « Big data and smart applications » of IIT’2015 11th IEEE Int. Conf. on Innovation in Information Technology, Dubai, Nov 2015.

• E-G. Talbi: Program chair IEEE NIDISC'2015 Workshop on Nature Inspired distributed Computing, Hyderabad, India, May 2015.

Member of the conference program committees

• CEC'2015: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (Sendai, Japan, 2015)

• EA'2015: 12th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (Lyon, France 2015)

• EMO'2015: 8th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (Guimarães, Portugal, 2015)

• EPIA'2015: 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Track on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (Coimbra, Portugal, 2015)

• EvoCOP'2015: 15th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015)

• GECCO'2015: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Madrid, Spain, 2015)

• LION'2015: 9th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (Lille, France, 2015)

• ICCS'2015 International Conference on Computational Science, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 1-3, 2015.

• IEEE IPDPS/NIDISC'2015 IEEE International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing, Hyderabad, India, May 25-29, 2015.

• IEEE IPDPS/PCO'2015 IEEE Intl. Workshop on Parallel Computing and Optimization, Hyderabad, India, May 25-29, 2015.

• MIC'2015 Metaheuristics Intl. Conf., Agadir, Morocco, June 7-10, 2015.

• COSI'2015 Colloque sur l'Optimisation et les Systèmes d'information, Oran, Algérie, June 1-3, 2015.

• INCoS 2015 Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 2-4, 2015.

• CoCoNet'2015 Intl. Conf. on Computing and Network Communications, Trivandrum, India, Dec. 16-19, 2015.

• IC3'2015 Intl. Conf. on Contemporary Computing, Noida, India, Aug. 20-22, 2015.

• CloudTech'2015 Intl. Conf. of Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, Marrakech, Morocco, June 2-4, 2015.

• Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA 2015).

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

• E-G. Talbi : Editor of the Journal « Computers and Industrial Engineering (CAIE, Elsevier)» Area «Computational Intelligence».

• D. Brockhoff, B. Derbel, A. Liefooghe and S. Verel: Guest editors of a special issue on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, European Journal of Operational Research.

• N. Melab Guest Editor for the special issue on Multi/Many-core Computing for Parallel Metaheuristics. In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2015.

• E-G. Talbi, P. Bouvry : Guest editor of a special issue on Computational intelligence for Cloud computing, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Vol.10, No.1, 2015.

• D. Brockhoff : Special Issue “Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization” of Computers and Operations Research journal (C&OR), together with Joshua Knowles, Boris Naujoks, and Karthik Sindhya, submission deadline in September 2015

• L. Jourdan : Review Editor Frontiers in Big Data.

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

• A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research (4OR, Springer)

• European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR, Elsevier)

• Journal of Heuristics (HEUR, Springer)

• Soft Computing (SOCO, Springer)

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

• Applied Soft Computing

• International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR)

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

• Computers & Operations Research (COR, Elsevier)

• Computers & Industrial Engineering (CAIE, Elsevier)

• ACM Computing Surveys

• Computation and Concurrency: Practice and Experience

• Parallel Processing Letters

• Omega, The International Journal of Management Science

Invited talks

• L. Jourdan, Combinatorial optimization for Bioinformatcs, invited talk (1day), summer school of Bioinformatics, Angers, 2015.

• A. Liefooghe, “On multi-objective fitness landscapes and the performance of EMO algorithms”, Dec 2015, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan

• D. Brockhoff, invited tutorial “Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization”, GECCO 2015, Madrid, Spain, July 12, 2015, together with Tobias Wagner

• N. Melab, Invited lecture “Basics on parallel programming”, HPC day organized in conjunction with COSI'2015, May 31^th, Oran, Algeria, 2015.

• E-G. Talbi, “Combining metaheuristics with mathematical programming, constraint programming and machine learning”, Keynote speaker ROADEF’2015 Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle, Marseille, France, Feb 2015.

• E-G. Talbi, “Solving complex optimization problems”, Tutorial IIT’2015 11th Int. Conf. on Innovations in Information Technology, Dubai, UAE, Nov 2015.

• C. Dhaenens, L. Jourdan and M-E. Marmion, “Synergy of knowledge and optimization”, KU Leuven KULAK, April 2015

• C. Dhaenens and M-E. Marmion, “Synergy of knowledge and optimization”, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan, Feb. 2015

Leadership within the scientific community

• L. Jourdan : Co-president of the working group “ATOM: Multi-objective optimization”, GDR RO.

• N. Melab : scientific leader of Grid'5000 (https://www.grid5000.fr) at Lille, Since 2004

• N. Melab : Chargé de Mission of High Performance Computing and Simulation at Université Lille 1, Since 2010

• E-G. Talbi : Co-president of the working group “META: Metaheuristics - Theory and applications”, GDR RO and GDR MACS.

• E-G. Talbi : Co-Chair of the IEEE Task force on Cloud Computing within the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

• L. Jourdan, A. Liefooghe : Secretary of the association “Artificial Evolution” (EA).

Scientific expertise

• C. Dhaenens: Jury of the contest “les pros de la RO”, organised by the ROADEF society, Nov 2015.

• L. Jourdan: external reviewer for the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR).

• L. Jourdan: external reviewer for the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders ).

• L. Jourdan : Jury of the contest "prix Robert Faure" for contribution in the field of Operational research organized by ROADEF Feb. 2015

• E-G. Talbi : Expert for Qatar Foundation QNRF projects, 2015.

Research administration

• C. Dhaenens : Vice-head of CRIStAL laboratory (Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille), common to CNRS, University of Lille and Ecole Centrale de Lille, 430 people.

• F. Dufossé : Member of the Inria “center committee” and “research applications”.

• N. Melab : Member of the steering committee of “Maison de la Simulation” at Université Lille 1.

• L. Jourdan Membre du bureau de la direction des écoles doctorales en Informatique du Nord Pas de Calais.