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BBOB 2010 : GECCO 2010 Workshop on Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking | |||||||||||||
Link: http://coco.gforge.inria.fr/doku.php?id=bbob-2010 | |||||||||||||
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Call For Papers | |||||||||||||
GECCO 2010 WORKSHOP (July 7, 2010)
Real-Parameter Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking Submission deadline: Thursday, March 25, 2010 Webpage: http://coco.gforge.inria.fr/doku.php?id=bbob-2010 Email: bbob@lri.fr Quantifying and comparing the performances of optimization algorithms is a difficult and tedious task to achieve. Tools, provided for this workshop will ease this process by: (1) an implemented, well-motivated single-objective benchmark function testbed, (2) a simple and sound experimental set-up, (3) the generation of output data and (4) the post-processing and presentation of the results in graphs and tables. The remaining task for participants: run their favorite black-box optimizer (old or new) by using the wrappers provided and run the post-processing procedure (provided as well) that will generate automatically all the material for a workshop paper (templates are provided). A description of the algorithm and the discussion of the results completes the task. Two testbeds are provided, (1) noise-free functions and (2) noisy functions. The participants can freely choose (between) both of them. Besides submissions of results obtained with the provided benchmarking setup, the workshop welcomes any submissions concerned with benchmarking real-parameter black-box optimization algorithms in general. During the workshop the overall process will be critically presented, the algorithms will be presented by the participants, quantitative performance measurements of all submitted algorithms will be presented, categorized by early versus late performance and function properties like multi-modality, ill-conditioning, symmetry, ridge-solving, coarse- and fine-grain ruggedness, weak global structure, outlier noise... Special Issue: Extended version of selected papers will appear in a special issue of the journal Evolutionary Computation. Supporting material: http://coco.gforge.inria.fr/ Code for the benchmark functions and for running the experiments is provided in Matlab, C, Java. Mailing list: To subscribe to the BBOB mailing list send an email to bbob@lri.fr Important Dates: * 03/25/2010 paper and data submission deadline * 04/01/2010 decision notification * 04/13/2010 final manuscript submission * 07/07/2010 workshop * July 2010 extended paper submission (from 2009 and 2010) tentative deadline for a special issue of Evolutionary Computation Journal Organizers: Anne Auger, Hans-Georg Beyer, Nikolaus Hansen, Steffen Finck, Petr Posik, Raymond Ros |
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