Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• E-G. Talbi (Conference program chair): Intl. Conf. on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (META’2018), Marrakech, Morocco, Oct. 2018.

• N. Melab (Workshop co-chair): Intl. Workshop on the Synergy of Parallel Computing, Optimization and Simulation (HPCS/PaCOS'2018), Orléans, FRANCE, Jul. 16-20, 2018.

• E-G. Talbi (General Chair): 8^th Intl. Conf. on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications (BIOMA'2018), Paris, FRANCE, May 16-18, 2018.

• E-G. Talbi (Workshop co-chair): Intl. Workshop on Optimization and Learning: Challenges and Applications (OLA'2018), Alicante, SPAIN, Feb. 26-28, 2018.

• E-G. Talbi (steering committee): 8^th IEEE Workshop Parallel Distributed Computing and Optimization (IPDPS/PDCO'2018), Vancouver, CANADA, May 21-25, 2018.

• N. Melab: Chair of 4 simulation and HPC-related seminars at Université de Lille, Oct-Dec. 2018 (CENAERO-BELGIUM, IBM, UCL-BELGIUM, ONERA).

• B. Derbel and A. Liefooghe (workshop co-chairs): 1^st International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Massive Optimization (CIMO 2018), Nagano, Japan, July 2018 (with H. Aguirre, K. Tanaka and S. Verel).

• B. Derbel (workshop co-chair): Decomposition Techniques in Evolutionary Optimization (DTEO), workshop at GECCO 2018, Kyoto, Japan, July 2018 (with K. Li, X. Li, S. Zapotecas, Q. Zhang and H. Li).

• A. Liefooghe (workshop co-chair): Landscape-aware heuristic search (LAHS), workshop at GECCO 2018, Kyoto, Japan, July 2018 (with N. Veerapen, S. Verel and G. Ochoa).

• B. Derbel (special session co-chair): Advances in Decomposition-­based Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (ADEMO), special session at WCCI/CEC 2018, Rio, Brazil, July 2018 (with S. Zapotecas and Q. Zhang).

• B. Derbel and A. Liefooghe (special session co-chairs): Multi-/many-objective optimization and learning, special session at BIOMA 2018, Paris, France, May 2018 (with H. Aguirre, B. Filipič, T. Tušar, and S. Verel).

Member of the Organizing Committees

• N. Melab and E-G. Talbi: Synergy Summer School on Efficient Multi-objective Optimization, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Aug. 27-31, 2018.

• E-G. Talbi: The first international Metaheuristics Summer School – MESS 2018, Acireale-Sicily, Italy, Jul. 21-25, 2018.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• N. Melab (Program co-chair): 8^th Intl. Conf. on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications (BIOMA'2018), Paris, France, May 16-18, 2018.

• A. Liefooghe (program co-chair): EvoCOP 2018: 18th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Parma, Italy, 2018).

• A. Liefooghe (proceedings chair): GECCO 2018: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Kyoto, Japan, 2018).

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL, Jul. 8-13, 2018.

• The ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Kyoto, JAPAN, July 15-19, 2018.

• The 2018 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), Orleans, FRANCE, July 16–20, 2018.

• IEEE Intl. Workshop on Parallel/Distributed Computing and Optimization (IPDPS/PDCO), Vancouver, Britich Columbia, CANADA, May 21-25, 2018.

• IEEE Intl. on High-Performance Optimization in Industry (HPOI), Ljubljana, SLOVENIA, October 8, 2018.

• Colloque sur l'Optimisation et les Systèmes d'information (COSI), Oran, ALGERIE, Oct. 22-24, 2018.

• The 4^th Intl. Conf. on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CloudTech), Brussels, BELGIUM, Nov. 26-28, 2018.

• EvoCOP’2018, 18^th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, Parma, ITALY, April 4–6, 2018.

• 15th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Coimbra, Portugal, September 2018

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Kyoto, Japan, July 2018.

• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (WCCI-CEC), Rio, Brazil, July 2018.

• 18th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP), Parma, Italy, April 2018.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• N. Melab: Guest and Managing Editor (in collaboration with A. Zomaya and I. Chakroun) of a special on Parallel Optimization using/for Multi and Many-core High Performance Computing in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 112, 2018.

• P. Korosec, N. Melab and E-G. Talbi. Guest Editor of LNCS Proceedings of 8^th Intl. Conf., BIOMA 2018, Paris, France, May 16-18, 2018. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 10835, 2018.

• B. Derbel: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (IEEE).

• A. Liefooghe, M. López-Ibánez: Editors of LNCS Proceedings of the 18th European conference on evolutionary computation in combinatorial optimization (EvoCOP 2018), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 10782, Parma, Italy, 2018.

• E-G. Talbi: Co-editor (with C. Ribeiro) of a special issue in International Transactions on Operational Research (ITOR) on Optimization and Learning, 2018.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Journal of Heuristics (Springer)

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

• Evolutionary Computation (MIT)

Invited Talks

• N. Melab: High-performance Computing, Invited Speaker (1h30), Synergy Summer School, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA, Aug. 28^th, 2018.

• N. Melab: Introduction to High-performance Computing, Invited Tutorial (1h40), the 7^th Intl. Conf. on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (META’18), Marrakech, MOROCCO, Oct. 27-31, 2018.

• E-G. Talbi: Bridging the gap between metaheuristics and machine learning, Invited seminar, PUCV Universidad, Santiago, Chile, Mar 2018.

• E-G. Talbi: How machine learning can help metaheuristics, Invited keynote, LOPAL’2018 International Conference on Learning and Optimization Algorithms: Theory and Applications, Rabat, Marrakech, May 2018.

• E-G. Talbi: Synergy between metaheuristics and machine learning, Tutorial, BIOMA’2018 International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization and their Applications, Paris, France, May 2018.

• E-G. Talbi: Parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms, Invited tutorial, IEEE WCCI World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2018.

• E-G. Talbi: Optimization for machine learning, Invited seminar, Universidad Elche, Spain, Dec 2018.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

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

• 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

• A. Liefooghe: co-secretary of the association “Artificial Evolution” (EA)

Scientific Expertise

• N. Melab: Reviewer expert for AAPG ANR, CES 23 (B.7, Axe 4), JCJC, FRANCE, 2018

• N. Melab: Member of the advisory committee for the IT and maganement engineer training at Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, BELGIUM

Research Administration

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

• E-G. Talbi, Coordinator of the International Relationships of Inria Lille Nord Europe