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preliminary schedule
Please note that the schedule below is tentative and might be subject to changes
8:30-10:20 (surrogates and linkage)
- 08:30 - 09:00 Nikolaus Hansen: “Introduction to Blackbox Optimization Benchmarking”
- 09:00 - 09:35 Ilya Loshchilov: “BI-population CMA-ES Algorithms with Surrogate Models and Line Searches”
- 09:35 - 10:10 László Pál: “Benchmarking a Multi Level Single Linkage Algorithm with Improved Global and Local Phases”
- 10:10 - 10:20 Nikolaus Hansen: “Session Wrap-up”
10:40-12:30 (an algorithmic jam-session)
- 10:40 - 10:45 Dimo Brockhoff: “Session Introduction”
- 10:45 - 11:05 Dimo Brockhoff: “Multiobjectivization with NSGA-II on the Noiseless BBOB Testbed”
- 11:05 - 11:30 Costas Voglis: “Adapt-MEMPSODE: A Memetic Algorithm with Adaptive Selection of Local Searches”
- 11:30 - 11:55 Babatunde Sawyerr: “Benchmarking Projection-Based Real Coded Genetic Algorithm on BBOB-2013 Noiseless Function Testbed”
- 11:55 - 12:20 Neal Holtschulte: “Benchmarking Cellular Genetic Algorithms on the BBOB Noiseless Testbed”
- 12:20 - 12:30 Dimo Brockhoff: “Session Wrap-up”
14:00-15:50 (expensive optimization)
- 14:00 - 14:05 Anne Auger: “Session Introduction”
- 14:05 - 14:35 Anne Auger: “Benchmarking within the Expensive BBOB Setting: a Case-Study on the local meta-model CMA-ES”
- 14:35 - 15:00 Frank Hutter: “An evaluation of sequential model-based optimization for expensive blackbox functions”
- 15:00 - 15:25 Thomas Stützle: “Bounding the population size of IPOP-CMA-ES on the Noiseless BBOB Testbed”
- 15:25 - 15:40 Nikolaus Hansen: “A Short Hands-On Tutorial of BBOB/COCO”
- 15:40 - 15:50 Nikolaus Hansen: “Session Wrap-up”
16:10-18:00 (wrap-up + panel)
- 16:10 - 16:25 Nikolaus Hansen: “A Brief Overview of Blackbox Optimization Benchmarking”
- 16:25 - 16:40 Nikolaus Hansen: “Wrap-up of the BBOB-2013 Results”
- 16:40 - 18:00 Mike Preuss (moderator): panel discussion, panelists to be announced later
