Wednesday 30 August 2006
Metaheuristics & benchmarks at CEC
By nojhan, Wednesday 30 August 2006 at 22:53 :: General
The IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) is a well-known event that take place every year.
Since 2005, there is an interesting group of special sessions, organized by Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan:
- 2005, Real-Parameter Optimization,
- 2006, Constrained Real-Parameter Optimization,
- 2007, Performance Assessment of Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms.
What is really interesting in these sessions is the systematic presence of an implemented generalistic benchmark, built after discussion between researchers.
This is an extremely necessary practice, which is, unfortunately, not generalized. Indeed, this is the first step toward a rigourous performance assessment of metaheuristics (the second one being a true statistical approach, and the third one a considered data presentation).