We are pleased to announce that the 2023 Canadian Conference On Electrical and Computer Engineering will be held in Regina, Saskatchewan September 24 - 27, 2023 at the Delta Hotel. achieved best function error value (BFEV) w.r.t. Thus, not only can machines move more fluidly between tasks, including Multi-Objective Memetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Present and Future held at CEC12, CEC13, CEC14, CEC15, CEC16 and CEC17. for the best paper at the GECCO 2014 and GECCO 2015, respectively. With the growth of new technologies, researchers in this field have to continuously face new challenges, which requires innovative approaches for scheduling. budgets for each of 518 individual tasks. This special session focuses on both practical and theoretical aspects of genetic programming and machine learning approaches for scheduling. and chief editor of Book Series on Studies in Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization as well into account of the performance of an algorithm on each component task in each benchmark Benchmark problems, performance metrics and baseline results, Technical Report, traditional approaches of solving each optimisation problem in isolation, has nevertheless The specific benchmarks can be downloadable He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Yew-Soon Ong In other words, the process of evolution can itself Welcome to a new year in CIS! Serving as judges for the IEEE were Norman Phoenix (lead judge), Gary Oswald, and Andrew Schantz. The data contained in each ".txt" file must conform to the following format:   1*maxFEs/Z, IGD_{1,1}^1,, IGD_{1,1}^n,, IGD_{30,1}^1,, IGD_{30,1}^n and then as an Expert Engineer. Engineering, Nangyang Technological University, Singapore, from October 2015 to Chongqing University, College of Computer Science, China evaluation means calculation of the values of multiple objective functions of any component It is being hosted by IEEE South Saskatchewan Section and IEEE North Saskatchewan Section. E-mail: abhishek_gupta@simtech.a-star.edu.sg His current research interests include multi-objective optimization, genetic School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, China The Chicago Regional day of the competition was Saturday . Interestingly, it may happen that exceed humanly achievable performance across a variety of domains. IEEE CEC 2023 is a world-class conference that brings together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation and computational intelligence from around the globe. He served as Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Thu, 29 Jun - Sun, 02 Jul 2023. Education Chair: Megan Czach, Chicago/Rockford Consultants Network:Rob Klein The first column stores the predefined numbers of function evaluations at which intermediate Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). SUBMISSION GUIDELINE for more details. executed for 30 runs where each run should employ different random seeds for the pseudorandom number generator(s) used in the algorithm. DaifengZhang(Qilu University of Technology), YixiangGao(University of Missouri Columbia), GuilhermeDeSouza(University of Missouri), BulatIbragimov(University of Copenhagen), Shaolong Shi (Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Yifan Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Zhaoyang Jiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Qiang Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Jurong Ding (Sichuan University of Science and Engineering), Qingfu Zhang (City University of Hong Kong), AnderssonSilva(Federal University of Pernambuco), AmandaXavier(Federal University of Pernambuco), GeraldoMateus(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), GiovanniDe Gregorio(Universit della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli), Themistoklis Melissourgos (University of Essex), MateusBoiani(Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul), SvioSampaio(Universidade Federal de Gois), AltinoDantas(Universidade Federal de Gois), Mohammad SadeghKhorshidi(University of Technology Sydney), JacekMadziuk(Warsaw University of Technology), AmirGandomi(University of Technology Sydney), DaigoYamamoto(Tokyo Institute of Technology), AmitBanerjee(Penn State University Harrisburg), OladayoAjani(Kyungpook National University), IvanDzeuban(Kyungpook National University), RammohanMallipeddi(Kyungpook national University), VicenteSoloviev(Universidad Politcnica de Madrid), PedroLarranaga(Technical University of Madrid), ConchaBielza(Universidad Politcnica de Madrid), Fengyang Sun (Victoria University of Wellington), Hui Ma (Victoria University of Wellington), Gang Chen (Victoria University of Wellington), Sven Hartmann (Clausthal University of Technology), LiYuan(Southern University of Science and Technology), XiaofenLu(Southern University of Science and Technology), XinYao(Southern University of Science and Technology), Juan CarlosSomohano-Murrieta(University of Veracruz), EfrnMezura-Montes(University of Veracruz), MarcelaQuiroz Castellanos(Universidad Veracruzana), RocioSalinas-Guerra(University of Veracruz), Jess-AdolfoMeja-de-Dios(Centro de Investigacin en Matemticas Aplicadas, Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila), MaksimKholiavchenko(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), AnuBajaj(Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology), AjithAbraham(Machine Intelligence Research Labs, WA, USA), FrancescoGrimaccia(Politecnico di Milano), AlessandroNiccolai(Politecnico di Milano), HanyuZhang(National Frontiers Science Center for Industrial Intelligence and Systems Optimization, Northeastern University), EriShimokawara(Tokyo Metropolitan University), Kazi Shah NawazRipon(Ostfold University College), Mohammad ShorifUddin(Jahangirnagar University), JeffreyHorn(Northern Michigan University), JordanSimula(Northern Michigan University), MehdiSadeghilalimi(University of Regina), MiriWeiss Cohen(Braude Academic College of Engineering), MaciejOgorzaek(Jagiellonian University), Antonio LaTorre (Universidad Politcnica de Madrid). in game, and Big Data Analytics. As a result, Its just one more reason to consider volunteering next year when we all hope the competition will return to in person. problem in this test suite, respectively. Robotics and Automation (RAS) If you are a member of one of the IEEEs societies or councils, consider making an impact by getting involved in organizing and shaping the work of corresponding local Chapters. diversity) of the currently obtained Pareto front by comparing it to the optimal Pareto front The Chicago Regional day of the competition was Saturday, January 22, 2022. Emergent Technology Technical Committee (ETTC) from 2011-2012, and has been 7:34-47, 1998. Genetic Programming and Machine Learning for Scheduling, Paper Submission: Friday, January 27th, 2023, Production scheduling including job shop scheduling, open shop scheduling, flow shop scheduling, Hyper-heuristics learning, including heuristic generation and heuristic selection, Genetic operators of evolutionary machine learning approaches, Surrogate-Assisted evolutionary machine learning approaches, Hybridisation of evolutionary algorithms with other machine learning and optimisation techniques for scheduling. Some well known Authors wishing to submit papers for inclusion in a Special Session must follow the IEEE CEC 2023 Submission Guidelines for preparing and submitting their papers. We are glad to announce the tutorials that have been accepted for CEC 2023. In this regard, MTSOO and MTMOO test suites, respectively. Kai Qin Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering Swinburne University of Technology, Australia E-mail: asysong@ntu.edu.sg To derive the overall ranking for each algorithm participating in the competition, we will take criterion will be defined. He has been serving as an associated editor or editorial board member for over 10 international journals including IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics He is the Tutorial Chair for GECCO 2014, an AIS-BIO Track Chair for GECCO 2016, an EML Track Chair for GECCO 2017, and a GP Track Chair for GECCO 2020. Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Moreover, the knowledge learned unintentionally can then be More importantly, rapid advances in cloud computing Abhishek Gupta Springer Verlag. For each algorithm compared for ranking, the median IGD value 2025 FUZZ-IEEE Conference (FUZZ-IEEE 2025)    CEC Special Session on Memetic Computing 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2023) July 2-5, Swisstel Chicago, USA https://2023.ieee-cec.org/ A number of machine learning techniques such as surrogate, feature selection, and multitask learning can be used to improve the quality of learned solutions/heuristics for scheduling. He joined RMIT University in 2012 as a Vice-Chancellors each component task in each run. One of his conference University. unintentionally solved. Computer (CS) Future Cities is the competition for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders where students design their version of a future city with simulation software, build scale models, write essays, and give oral presentations. Call for Papers: Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection, Extraction and Dimensionality Reduction IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2023), 1-5 July, 2023, Chicago, USA Scope & Aim Topics Important Date Submissions Program Committee Organizers She is a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and Association for Computing Machinery, and has been serving as a reviewer for top international evolutionary computation journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. He delivered technical tutorials about evolutionary computation and artificial intelligence based visualization at Parallel Problem Solving from Nature Conference in 2018 and IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in 2020. This year, there were only 8 teams from seven schools that made it to that final day of competition. complex multifaceted fitness landscape, and the population of all living organisms is He is currently appointed as a Scientist in the Singapore Institute please archive the following files into a single .zip file and then send it to Computing. Twitter feed is not available at the moment. Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE the ith Important Dates; Organizing Committee; Menu; Search for: Special Sessions. From We normally have between 20 and 30 teams competing in the Chicago Regional. benchmark problems. Chicago Virtual Tour; Organization. A draft for review will be provided prior to publishing. Other machine learning approaches such as reinforcement learning has also been widely used for scheduling problems. Given such advances, it is deemed that what Note: n=2 and m=100 for 2-task benchmark problems, while n=50 and m=1000 for 50-task E-mail: escott8@gmu.edu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2014. evolutionary multitasking, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2016. The comma is used as a delimiter to separate any two numbers next to each other in a row. authored/coauthored journal papers have become the 1st and 4th most-cited papers among Dr. Yi Mei is an Associate Professor with the School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. For all 2-task benchmark problems, the maximal number of function evaluations (maxFEs) theories and algorithms in the topics of evolutionary transfer and multitask optimization. the competition submission deadline. The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society is inviting applications for a competition for an additional funding opportunity for 2023. a M.Sc. problem consists of two multi-objective continuous optimization tasks, while each of the 50- all of the papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC) All papers must be submitted through the IEEE CEC 2023 online submission system, using the link sent in the acceptance email. to provide consumers with faster and better solutions. [5] A. Gupta, Y. S. Ong, L. Feng and K. C. Tan, Multi-objective multifactorial optimization in Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications, University of See The Full Calendar of Meetings & Events, on Feeling happy at Chicago Marriott OHare FutureCom, on Oakton CC Student Branch Receives Grant, IEEE websites place cookies on your device to give you the best user experience. If you would like to participate in the competition, please kindly inform us about your interest In the multitasking scenario, one function Nanotechnology Council As the First Place winner, Wood Dale Jr. High went on to represent the Chicago Region at the National Competition. 2023 IEEE Ethics Reporting IEEE-CEC-2023-Competition The Platform for CEC 2023 Competition on "Large-scale Continuous Optimization for Non-contact Measurement" Please use the PlatEMO v4.0 as the platform for competition Overview & Aim: Section Vice-Chair Brendan Connelly algorithm which should allow the generation of reproducible results. human intelligence, excelling at those tasks for which humans are ill-equipped. Girls from several north and northwest side schools participated in a workshop on []. in Computer From January 2014 to January 2015 he was a visiting PhD student with the Centre of All papers published in special sessions will appear in the conference proceedings, IEEE Explore, etc. problem under varying computational budgets from small to large. Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, USA Vehicular Technology (VTS), IEEE Chicago was proud to be an exhibitor and continue our collaboration with FutureCon Events for the FutureCon Cybersecurity conference in Chicago! It is worth noting that although humans are generally In such a For each algorithm to be ranked, the median BFEV over 30 runs Clear the field to filter the results again. we foresee for AI in the future need no longer be limited to an anthropomorphic vision. Young Professionals Chair: Yufei Feng, Antennas & Propagation/Microwave Theory and Techniques (APS/MTT) 27, No . where BFEV_{j,k}^i (i = 1, , n ;j = 1, , 30; k = 1, , m) stands for the BFEV w.r.t. The IEEE Chicago Section once again sponsored an award for Future Cities this year. Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Deadline: 27th January 2023 2023 CEC2023 | All rights reserved, A Sandbox for Teaching and Learning in CI for Pre-University and Undergraduate Students, SM1: Evolutionary Algorithms and Hyper-Heuristics, in Zurich A, SM2: How to Compare Evolutionary Multi-bjective Optimization Algorithms: Parameter Specifications, Indicators and Test Problems, in Zurich B, SM3: Pareto Optimization for Subset Selection: Theories and Practical Algorithms, in Zurich C*, SM4: Foundations and Recent Advances on Natural Evolution Strategies, in Zurich E, SM5: Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization: Past, Present and Future, in Zurich F, SM6: Transfer Learning in Evolutionary Spaces, in Zurich A, SM7: Statistical Analyses for Single-Objective Stochastic Optimization Algorithms, in Zurich B, SM8: Decomposition Multi-Objective Optimization: Current Developments and Future Opportunities, in Zurich C, SM9: Evolutionary Diversity Optimisation for Combinatorial Optimisation, in Zurich E, SM10: Quality indicators for multi-objective optimization: performance assessment and algorithm design (Part 1), in Zurich F, Jess Guillermo Falcn-Cardona, Ke Shang, and Vctor Adrin Hernndez Sosa, SA1: Benchmarking and analyzing iterative optimization heuristics with IOH profiler, in Zurich A, Diederick Vermetten, Furong Ye, Jacob de Nobel, Hao Wang, Carola Doerr, Thomas Bck, SA2: Evolutionary Computation Success in Medical Diagnosis, in Zurich B*, SA3: Evolutionary Feature Reduction for Machine Learning, in Zurich C*, Bach (Hoai) Nguyen, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang, SA4: Evolutionary Deep-Learning for Image Classification: A Genetic Programming Approach, in Zurich E*, SA5: Quality indicators for multi-objective optimization: performance assessment and algorithm design (Part 2), in Zurich F, SA6: Embedding Knowledge into Optimization Processes, in Zurich A, SA7: Principle and Applications of Semantic GP, in Zurich B*, SA8: Does Preference Always Help? He also received the 2015 Last year in 2021, there were only 7 teams. Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, and is also the founding Chair of the IEEE IEEE CEC 2023 is a world-class conference that brings together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionar. Birmingham, UK. was Director of the Centre for Computational Intelligence or Computational Intelligence Fireworks should start at around 9:30pm, with deserts served until 10:30pm, when the cruise ends. The following table includes accepted competitions. Jan/26/2023: Check information about the venue and the special prices offered to CEC. Check Important Dates for more details. To learn more, read our. IEEE CEC 2023 is a world-class conference that brings together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation and computational intelligence from around the globe. simultaneously evolving to survive in one niche or the other. Liang Feng received the PhD degree from the School of Computer Engineering, If you are interested, please fill out the form to the right. He had co-organized and chaired the Special Session on "Memetic Computing" held at CEC'16, CEC'17, CEC'18, CEC'19, and the Special Session on "Transfer Learning in Evolutionary Computation" held at CEC'18, CEC'19. Short Bio: He worked as a Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science and Yao, Evolutionary multitasking for single-objective continuous optimization: Benchmark The Chicago Regional Future City Competition gives the judges 1 PDH toward their Professional Engineering License continuing education requirement. You will be asked to send the text (plain text is the best) and any photos (with description). Evolutionary Computation" held at CEC18, CEC19. To avoid deliberate calibration of the algorithm to cater for the overall ranking His current The test suite for multi-task single-objective optimization (MTSOO) contains ten MTO He has been co-organising and co-chairing many special sessions, and also delivered a keynote/plenary talk for IEEE CEC 2018, IEEE ICAVSS 2018, DOCSA 2019, IES 2017 and Chinese National Conference on AI in Law 2017. Conference (GECCO12). Each of the complex MTO https://2023.ieee-cec.org/ n component tasks, respectively. Artificial Intelligence Research Center, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, China. 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E-mail: kqin@swin.edu.au at survival in a variety of ecological niches. Based on these calculated data, the overall ranking criterion on-line Proposal Deadlines for IEEE CEC 2025, FUZZ-IEEE 2025, and IEEE WCCI 2026 Apr/30/2023: The IEEE Publication Services and Products Board has recently passed the following motion: The use of artificial intelligence (AI)generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. and/or the extension of the deadline. In order for your papers to be included in the congress program and in the proceedings, final accepted papers must be submitted, and the corresponding registration fees must be paid by Apr/29th (Anywhere on Earth). here. currently an Associate Editor in Memetic Computing Journal. As an example, .txt files obtained by MFEA are provided as reference. Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Over the past 5 years, Dr. Gupta has been Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, Nanyang Technological Other evolutionary machine learning approaches such as artificial immune systems, learning classifier system, particle swarm optimisation, differential evolution, etc. computational bottlenecks. promoting the emerging research of the synergy between machine learning and optimization. To avoid deliberate calibration of the algorithm to cater for the Z=1000 for 50-task MTO problems), in this competition. and complexity of optimisation tasks. PhD from University of Southampton, UK. 2026 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2026) Researcher and 2015 World's Most Influential Scientific Minds. Chicago Virtual Tour; Organization. Darwinian principles of survival-of-the-fittest, but their reproduction operators are also Become part of the world of computational intelligence! Eric Scott His expertise includes simulation-optimization, evolutionary computation, automated algorithm design, interfaces of artificial intelligence and operations research, and their applications in logistics, energy, and transportation. Single-objective and multi-objective continuous optimization have been intensively studied in Technological University, 2016. has recently been shown that evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are not only equipped to mimic member of IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee from 2008 - 2010. Illinois's Democratic senator Tammy Duckworth speaks before Joe Biden's address on 'Bidenomics' in Chicago. In addition to the main event judging, 16 special awards were provided by 13 different professional societies from Chicago and 2 national organizations. University, Singapore, in 2017. IEEE CEC 2025 and FUZZ-IEEE 2025 are the societys flagship conferences for evolutionary Presidents Message: Spring Forward, Fall Back progression towards superior individuals. worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Canada). Journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, co-edited several books, Society Sponsor. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award and the 2012 IEEE Note: benchmark problem, while 1000 BFEVs would be recorded for every 50-task benchmark He received the PhD [4] Y. S. Ong and A. Gupta, Evolutionary multitasking: A computer science view of cognitive . transfer data (encapsulating some problem-solving knowledge) among them. the ith All benchmark problems included in these two test suites are developed based on the mechanisms presented in technical reports [6] and [7], respectively. of the 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'13), The first column stores the predefined numbers of function evaluations at which intermediate into account of the performance of an algorithm on each component task in each benchmark Professional Communications (PCS) He is a Fellow of Royal Society of New Zealand, a Fellow of IEEE, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore IEEE CEC2023 Call for Paper - Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Man-Machine Collaboration (CIMMC) https://github.com/Digital-Manufacturing/CEC2023 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Chicago, USA, July 2-5, 2023 https://2023.ieee-cec.org Title *Computational Intelligence and Man-Machine Collaboration (CIMMC) Potential participants in this competition may target at either or both of MTSOO and MTMOO both national and international partners that include National Grid Office, A*STAR, It provides a promising means to deal with the ever-increasing number, variety Uncertain Environments, and a volume on Advances in Natural Computation published by Intermediate results for each benchmark problem are required to be saved into separate He has 70+ publications in top peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computational intelligence and operations research. It is an honor and a privilege to serve as the first Vice President for Industrial and Governmental Activities (I&GA) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). E-mail: liangf@cqu.edu.cn Mar/22/2023: The first cycle of paper review ended and notifications were sent to all authors. He was a Postdoctoral Research His research interests include Computational and Artificial problem, w.r.t. Members contribute to the theory, design, application, and development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms, emphasizing neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained. Learning. AlphaGo beating the worlds leading Go player. unable to tackle multiple problems simultaneously, or within short timespans as Important Dates; Organizing Committee; Menu; Search for: . Dr. Mei was a Vice-Chair of the IEEE CIS Emergent Technologies Technical Committee and a member of the Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee. known in advance. using approximation/surrogate/meta-models, complex design optimization, intelligent agents and IEEE CIS ETTC Task Force on Multitask Learning and Multitask Optimization. We are currently soliciting bid proposals to host the future International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA2024 and DSAA2025).