Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• A. Auger, program chair of the PPSN 2018 conference Coimbra, Portugal

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, and Dejan Tušar, co-organizer of the ACM-GECCO-2017 workshop on Black Box Optimization Benchmarking, together with Tea Tušar

• Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff and Nikolaus Hansen, co-organizer of the ACM-GECCO-2018 workshop on Black Box Optimization Benchmarking, together with Julien Bect, Rodolphe Le Riche, Victor Picheny, and Tea Tušar

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Anne Auger: theory track chair for the ACM-GECCO conference 2018, Kyoto, Japan

• Nikolaus Hansen: co-track chair at ACM-GECCO-2018 for the “Evolutionary Numerical Optimization” track, Kyoto, Japan

• Nikolaus Hansen: co-track chair at ACM-GECCO-2017 for the “Evolutionary Numerical Optimization” track, Berlin, Germany

Member of the Conference Program Committees or Reviewer

• Dimo Brockhoff reviewed for ACM-GECCO

• Anne Auger is reviewer for ACM-GECCO, ACM-FOGA , NIPS, ICML

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Anne Auger and Nikolaus Hansen, members of the editorial board of the Evolutionary Computation Journal

• Dimo Brockhoff, co-guest editor of a special issue on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization in the Computers & Operations Research journal (issue 79), together with Joshua Knowles, Boris Naujoks, and Karthik Sindhya

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Dimo Brockhoff reviewed in 2017 for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the Evolutionary Computation Journal, Natural Computing, PLoS One, Algorithmica, and Optimal Control, Applications and Methods

• Anne Auger reviewed in 2017 for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the Evolutionary Computation Journal, Algorithmica, SIAM Journal on Optimization

Invited Talks and Tutorials

• Dimo Brockhoff: invited tutorial on benchmarking (multiobjective) optimizers at the Symposium on Search-based Software Engineering (SSBSE'2017) in September 2017 in Paderborn, Germany

• Dimo Brockhoff: two invited talks (one on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, one on Benchmarking) at the Mascot-Num conference in March 2017 in Paris, France

• Anne Auger and Nikolaus Hansen, tutorial on Introduction to randomized continuous optimization at the ACM-GECCO conference, Berlin, Germany

• Dimo Brockhoff: introductory tutorial on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization at the ACM-GECCO conference, Berlin, Germany

• Nikolaus Hansen: tutorial “A Practical Guide to Benchmarking and Experimentation” at the ACM-GECCO conference, Berlin, Germany

• Nikolaus Hansen: tutorial “CMA-ES and Advanced Adaptation Mechanisms” at the ACM-GECCO conference, Berlin, Germany, together with Youhei Akimoto

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Since 2011, Anne Auger Elected member of the ACM-SIGEVO executive board, re-elected in 2017.