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Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair
  • E-G. Talbi (Conference chair): Intl. Conf. on Multiple Objective Programming and Goal Programming (MOPGP'2019), Marrakech, Morocco, Oct 28-31, 2019.

  • N. Melab (Workshop co-chair): Intl. Workshop on the Synergy of Parallel Computing, Optimization and Simulation (HPCS/PaCOS'2019), Dublin, Ireland, Jul 15-19, 2019.

  • E-G. Talbi (Steering committee Chair): Intl. Conf. on Optimization and Learning (OLA'2019), Bangkok, Thailand, Jan 29-31, 2019.

  • E-G. Talbi (Steering committee): 9th IEEE Workshop Parallel Distributed Computing and Optimization (IPDPS/PDCO'2019), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 20-24, 2019.

  • O. Abdelkafi, B. Derbel and A. Liefooghe (workshop co-chairs): 2nd Intl. Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Massive Optimization (CIMO 2019), Lille, France, July 2019 (with H. Aguirre, K. Tanaka and S. Verel).

  • B. Derbel (workshop co-chair): Decomposition Techniques in Evolutionary Optimization (DTEO), workshop at GECCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2019 (with K. Li, X. Li, S. Zapotecas, and Q. Zhang).

  • A. Liefooghe (workshop co-chair): Landscape-aware heuristic search (LAHS), workshop at GECCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2019 (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 CEC 2019, Wellington, New Zealand, June 2019 (with S. Zapotecas, K. Li and Q. Zhang).

  • A. Liefooghe (track chair): GECCO 2019: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary multi-objective Optimization (EMO) track (Prague, Czech Republic, 2019).

  • N. Melab: Chair of 4 simulation and HPC-related seminars at Université de Lille: The Arctic University of Norway (HPC Group, UiT), IBM, DSI (Supercomputing division) Ulille, Inria Lille), Oct-Dec 2019.

Scientific Events: Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees
  • A. Liefooghe (program co-chair): EvoCOP 2019: 19th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Leipzig, Germany, 2019).

Member of the Conference Program Committees
  • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Wellington, New Zealand, Jun 10-13, 2019.

  • IEEE Workshop on Understanding of Evolutionary Optimization Behavior, Wellington, New Zealand, Jun 10-13, 2019.

  • The ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Prague, Czech Republic, July 13-17, 2019.

  • 13th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC), Cartagena, Colombia, July 28-31, 2019.

  • The 2018 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), Dublin, Ireland, July 15–19, 2019.

  • IEEE Intl. Workshop on Parallel/Distributed Computing and Optimization (IPDPS/PDCO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 20-24, 2019.

  • EvoCOP’2019, 19th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, Leipzig, Germany, Apr 24-26, 2019.

  • Int. Conf. on Multiple objective Programming and Goal Programming (MOPGP’2019), Marrakech, Morocco, Oct 28-31, 2019.

  • Intl. Conf. on Optimization and Learning (OLA'2019), Bangkok, Thailand, Jan 29-31, 2019.

  • Int. Conf. on Computing​ (ICC 2019), Springer's CCIS Book Series, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct 22-24, 2019.

  • 15th Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA), Potsdam, Germany, 2019.

  • 10th Intl. Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (EMO), Michigan, USA, 2019.

  • ICANN’2019 28th Intl. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks, Munich, Germany, Sept 2019.

  • Metaheuristics Intl. Conference (MIC’2019), Cartagena, Colombia, July 2019.

  • Intl. Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM 2019), Shanghai, China, Sept 2019.

  • 8th Intl. Conf. on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimizaiton (ICMSAO’2019), Bahrin, April 2019.

  • Colloque sur l'Optimisation et les Systèmes d'information (COSI), Tizi-Ouzou, Algérie, Jun 24-26, 2019.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards
  • N. Melab: Associate Editor of ACM Computing Surveys (IF: 6.131) since 2019.

  • N. Melab: Guest and Managing Editor (in collaboration with P. Korosec, J. Gmys and I. Chakroun) of a special on Synergy between Parallel Computing, Optimization and Simulation in Journal of Computational Science (JoCS), 2019.

  • E-G. Talbi: Guest Editor (with L. Amodeo and F. Yalaoui) of a special issue on Metaheuristics in Industry 4.0 in Swarm and evolutionary computation, 2019.

  • E-G. Talbi. Guest Editor (with H. Masri) on Multiple criteria decision making models for economic developement in JMCDA Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, 2019.

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

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities
  • Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE TEC, IF: 8.508), IEEE.

  • ACM Computing Surveys (IF: 6.131), ACM.

  • Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (SWEVO, IF: 6.330), Elsevier.

  • Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS, IF: 5.7), Elsevier.

  • European Journal of Operational Research [15], Elsevier.

  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS, IF: 3.4), IEEE.

  • Journal of Computational Science (JoCS, IF: 2.5), Elsevier.

  • Annals of Operations Research (IF: 2.284), Springer.

  • Journal of Heuristics (JoH, IF: 1.392), Springer.

  • Intl. Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT, IF: 0.8), World Scientific.

Invited Talks

  • E-G. Talbi. Learning-based metaheuristics, Distinguished seminar, University of Michigan, USA, Jan 2019.

  • E-G. Talbi. Machine learning and optimization: inseparable disciplines, Keynote speaker, KST’2019 11th Intl. Conf. on Knowledge and Smart Technology, Phuket, Thailand, Jan 2019.

  • E-G. Talbi. How machine learning can help metaheuristics?, Invited seminar, American University of Sharjah, Emirates Arabs United, Feb 2019.

  • E-G. Talbi. Machine learning into optimization, Invited seminar, University of Elche, Spain, Nov 2019.

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: 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 Scientific Board (Bureau Scientfique du Centre) for the Inria Lille - Nord Europe research center.

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