Program of the Lorentz Center workshop “SAMCO: Surrogate-Assisted Multi-Criteria Optimization
(last updated May 17, 2016)
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Sunday 28 February 2016
For those of us who plan to arrive already on the Sunday, we have organized a table for an informal joint dinner at the restaurant Einstein in Leiden (from 7pm, location at Google maps).
Monday 29 February 2016
09:00 - 10:00
Arrival, office assignment, coffee and tea
10:00 - 10:10
Welcome by the Lorentz Center staff
10:10 - 10:30
Welcome by the workshop organizers
10:30 - 11:30
First invited keynote by Rodolphe Le Riche: “Surrogates and (mono-objective) optimization: a long-term relationship”
11:30 - 12:30
Second invited keynote by Joshua Knowles: “Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (and the Rise of Surrogates)”
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch and informal discussions
14:00 - 15:30
Plenary Discussion
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee and tea break
16:00 - 17:30
Group discussions
17:30 - end
Wine and Cheese welcoming party
Tuesday 1 March 2016
09:00 - 10:30
Third invited keynote by Erich Novak: “Theoretical limits of approximation and optimization for continuous black box functions”
11:00 - 12:00
Group discussions
12:30 - 13:15
This weeks discoveries talk by Kalyanmoy Deb: “Breaking the Billion Variable Barrier in Real-World Optimization”
13:15 - 14:00
Lunch and informal discussions
14:00 - 16:00
Group discussions
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee and tea break
16:30 - 18:00
Group discussions
Wednesday 2 March 2016
09:00 - 10:30
Preliminary results presentation
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee and tea break
11:00 - 12:30
Preliminary results presentation
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch and informal discussions
14:00 - 16:00
Industrial session
slides by Charlotte Beauthier (Cenaero)
slides by Silvia Poles (Noesis Solutions)
slides by Enrico Rigoni (Esteco SpA)
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee and tea break
16:30 - 17:45
Group discussions
18:00
Departure by bus for conference barbecue
18:30 - 22:30
Conference barbecue
22:30
Departure by bus to Leiden train station, Lorentz Center or hotel Van der Valk
Thursday 3 March 2016
09:00 - 10:30
Contributed talks:
Samineh Bagheri: Equality Constraint Handling Approaches for a Surrogate-Assisted Optimizer (SACOBRA)
Mickaël Binois: Uncertainty quantification on Pareto fronts and high-dimensional multi-objective Bayesian optimization
Vanessa Volz: Automatic Game Balancing
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee and tea break
11:00 - 12:30
Group discussions
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch and informal discussions
14:00 - 16:00
Group discussions
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee and tea break
16:30 - 18:30
Contributed talks:
Martina Friese and Martin Zaefferer: Two Challenges in Surrogate-modeling: Merging Surrogate-models into Ensembles and Dealing with Structured or Combinatorial Search Spaces
Daniel Horn: Batch Proposals for Model-Based Multi-Objective Optimization in the context of SVM tuning
Nobuo Namura: A New Indicator to Select Additional Sample Points for Surrogate Assisted Multiobjective Optimization with the Kriging Model: Expected PBI/IPBI Improvement
Tinckle Chugh: K-RVEA: A Kriging based evolutionary algorithm for many objective optimization
Friday 4 March 2016
09:00 - 11:00
Result presentations
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee and tea break
11:30 - 12:30
Concluding talk by Antanas Zilinskas: “Statistical models of global multi-objective optimization”