Upcoming events

• July 2023, Lisbon (Portugal): Benchmarking and analyzing iterative optimization heuristics with IOHprofiler in GECCO’23.

Competitions

• The Competition - Evolutionary Submodular Optimisation GECCO 2022, supporting Aneta Neumann, Frank Neumann (University of Adelaide, Australia), and Chao Qian (Nanjing University, China).
• The Open Optimization competition 2022 , organized in colaboration with Nevergrad
• The Open Optimization competition 2021, organized in colaboration with Nevergrad
• The Open Optimization competition 2020, organized in colaboration with Nevergrad

Tutorials

• 18 July 2022, Padua (IT): Benchmarking and analyzing iterative optimization heuristics with IOHprofiler in IEEE WCCI’22.
• 9 July 2022, Boston (US): Benchmarking and analyzing iterative optimization heuristics with IOHprofiler in ACM GECCO’22.
• 19 July 2020, Glasgow (UK): Benchmarking and Analyzing Iterative Optimization Heuristics with IOHprofiler IEEE WCCI ‘20.
• 9 July 2020, Cancun (Mexico): Benchmarking and Analyzing Iterative Optimization Heuristics with IOHprofiler in ACM GECCO ‘20.
• 10 June 2019, Wellington (NZ): Benchmarking and Analyzing Iterative Optimization Heuristics with IOHprofiler in IEEE CEC ‘19.

Presentations

• 17-18 Nov., 2022, Maribor, Slovenia: Carola Doerr gave a presentation in International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications (BIOMA).
• 20-24 June, 2022, Boston (US): Carola Doerr gave a presentaion in SIGEVO summer school.
• 5-9 July, 2021, Lille (FR): Carola Doerr gave a presentaion in SIGEVO summer school.
• 9 Nov. 2020, Leiden (NL): Hao Wang and Diederick Vermetten gave presentations on both IOHanlyzer and IOHprofiler in general (slides), in the Lorentz center workshop “Benchmarked: Optimization meets Machine Learning”.
• 17 Feb. 2020, Vilnius (Lithuania): Hao Wang and Ofer M. Shir gave a lecture on the usage of IOHprofiler, in the working group meetin of COST Action ImAppNIO.
• 25 Nov. 2019, Coimbra (PT): Hao Wang gave a lecture on Benchmarking and Visualization, which is based on IOHanalyzer, in the training School of COST Action ImAppNIO (https://imappnio.dcs.aber.ac.uk/training-school-2019).
• July 2019: Several presentations at GECCO, see Section 6.
• 18 Feb. 2019, Málaga (ES): Hao Wang gave a talk on IOHanalyzer in a progress meeting of COST Action ImAppNIO.
• July 2018: Carola Doerr presents IOHprofiler at the BB-DOB workshop and at the Genetic Algorithms track at GECCO ‘18.
• September 2018: Carola Doerr presents IOHprofiler at PPSN ‘18.

Teaching

• IOHprofiler is used for teaching in the bachelor course ‘Natural Computing’ at LIACS, Leiden University, starting in 2019,2020,2021,2022
• IOHprofiler is used for teaching in the master course ‘Evolutionary Algorithms’ at LIACS, Leiden University, starting in 2019,2020,2021,2022
• IOHprofiler is used for teaching the course ‘Solving Optimization Problems with Search Heuristics’ at Sorbonne University, starting in 2021