Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

• GECCO 2018 10-years impact award, awarded to the paper published in GECCO 2008 that had the greatest impact, seen from 10 years later, for the paper

  Adaptive operator selection with dynamic multi-armed bandits, by Luis DaCosta, Alvaro Fialho, Marc Schoenauer, and Michèle Sebag, in Maarten Keijzer (Ed), Proc. ACM-GECCO, pp 913-920, 2008.

• Nacim Belkhir, Winner ACM-GECCO 2018 BBComp single-objective and expensive single-objective tracks. Nacim completed his PhD in TAU in 2017 [71], co-supervised by Marc Schoenauer, Johann Dréo and Pierre Savéant (Thalès TRT).

Visibility

• Marc Schoenauer, member of the core team responsible for the Villani mission regarding the French strategy on Artifical Intelligence. The mission started Sept. 2017 and the final report was delivered on March 29. 2018.

• Michèle Sebag, elected member of French Académie des Technologies, Apr. 2018.

• Michèle Sebag, chevalière de la Légion d'Honneur, Dec. 2018.