News and Upcoming Events
APMOD 2012: March 28th-30th, Paderborn, Germany. "APMOD 2012 is the tenth conference in the series of successful events covering mathematical optimization and modeling, theory as well as applications. Contributions from modeling, solving methods and software as well as applications of optimization are very welcome. Relevant application areas include, but are not restricted to finance, transportation, supply chain planning and management, energy and infrastructure. The models may be deterministic or stochastic, and aspects considering robustness or disruption management are very welcome. The methodological focus of the previous conferences has been on mathematical programming including stochastic programming. In APMOD 2012 the scope will be extended to include other methods as well, such as heuristics, metaheuristics or simulation."
New website for the OR Society: "Founded over 50 years ago in succession to the Operational Research Club which was set up in 1948, The OR Society is the world's oldest-established learned society catering to the Operational Research (O.R.) profession, and one of the largest in the world, with 3000 members in 53 countries."
Participation to CHeSC 2011:A brief description of the hyper-heuristic I implemented for the Cross-domain Heuristic Search Challenge (CHeSC 2011) is available on this page.
Cross-domain Heuristic Search Challenge 2011: The first Cross-domain Heuristic Search Challenge seeks to bring together practitioners from operational research, computer science and artificial intelligence who are interested in developing more generally applicable methodologies. The challenge is to design a high level search strategy that controls a set of problem specific low level heuristics.
Publication of a special issue on Hyper-heuristics in Search and Optimization in Journal of Heuristics (Journal of Heuristics, Vol. 16, No. 6, December 2010). "The first workshop devoted to hyper-heuristics was held in 2008 as part of the 10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN X) in Dortmund, Germany. The event was lively and well attended; it was seeded by three prominent invited speakers: Prof. Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, UK; Prof. Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy; and Prof. Riccardo Poli, University of Essex, UK. Over twenty submissions were received and carefully reviewed to select a dozen that were presented during the workshop. In connection with this workshop, we are glad to present this special issue of the Journal of Heuristics, devoted to Hyper-heuristics in Search and Optimization.", G. Ochoa and E. Özcan, J Heuristics (2010) 16:745-748.
Call for papers, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. October 9-12 2011, Anchorage, Alaska. "The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2011) provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to report the latest innovations, summarize the state-of-the-art, and exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of systems engineering, human-machine systems, and emerging cybernetics."
JANUS Project has recently released its platform (Version 0.3, August 6th 2010). "The janus project corresponds to a global effort to provide a whole methodology and its supporting set of tools for the analysis, design and implementation of complex applications in terms of holonic multiagent systems."
Research
Research project AMF (Agent Metaheuristics Framework) and organizational modeling of metaheuristics. The aim of this work is to explore how DAI methods and tools might be exploited to conceive efficient, flexible and modular metaheuristics.
Actual project at Polytechnique Montréal: Heuristical Approach for solving the Indirect Covering Tree Problem, application to road build optimization for forest operations.
Writen at 06. August 2010 by dmeignan