Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

• Anne Auger is the General Chair of the forthcoming ACM GECCO 2019 conference, Prague CZ (largest and most prestigious conference in the Evolutionary Computation domain).

Member of the Organizing Committees

• 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

• Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, and Konstantinos Varelas, co-organizer of the ACM-GECCO-2019 workshop on Black Box Optimization Benchmarking, together with Tea Tušar

• Dimo Brockhoff: co-organization of the Lorentz Center workshop on Many-Criteria Optimization (MACODA), September 2019, with Boris Naujoks, Michael Emmerich, and Robin Purshouse

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Anne Auger has been program chair of the PPSN 2018 conference, Coimbra, Portugal.

• Anne Auger was Theory track chair for the ACM GECCO 2018 conference, Kyoto, Japan.

• Nikolaus Hansen was ENUM track chair for the ACM GECCO 2018 conference, Kyoto, Japan.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Dimo Brockhoff and Nikolaus Hansen were members of the program committee of the PPSN 2018 conference.

Reviewer

• Dimo Brockhoff: GECCO'2018, GECCO'2018 student workshop, PPSN'2018, LeGO 2018, EMO'2019, and FOGA'2019

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Anne Auger and Nikolaus Hansen members of the editorial board of the Evolutionary Computation journal.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• The three permanent members are frequent reviewers for the main two journals on Evolutionary Computation: IEEE transaction on Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Computation.

• Anne Auger is guest editor of Algorithmica special issue of papers selected from GECCO theory tracks 2018

• Anne Auger is guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation special issue on Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Computation 2018/2019

Invited Talks

• Dimo Brockhoff: “Benchmarking multiobjective optimizers: An algorithmic jam session of recent results”, December 2018, Centre for Informatics and Systems, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Anne Auger, Elected Member of the ACM-SIGEVO executive board

• Dimo Brockhoff, member of the International Advisory Committee for EMO-2019 in East Lansing, USA

Scientific Expertise

• Anne Auger scientific expert for an audit on Artificial Intelligence of a large French industrial consortium.

• Dimo Brockhoff, external reviewer for the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) in the CORE 2018 call

Research Administration

• Anne Auger, member of the conseil de laboratoire of the CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique.