Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• N. Melab: Chair of the HPCS'2016 workshop (Parallel Optimization using / for Multi and Many-core High Performance Computing) organized in conjunction with HPCS'2016, Innshbruck, Austria, June 7^th 2015.

• N. Melab: Chair of 5 simulation and HPC-related seminars at Lille 1 oct-dec. 2016 (CENAERO, Intel, Atos-Bull, FFT, UPMC).

• E-G. Talbi: General chair of META'2016 Int. Conf. on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, Marrakech, Morocco, Oct 2016, 105 participants.

• E-G. Talbi, Program co-chair of HM'2016 Int. Conf on Hybrid Metaheuristics, Exeter, UK, May 2016.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• D. Brockhoff: co-organizer of the Surrogate-Assisted Multi-Criteria Optimization workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, The Netherlands, Feb/Mar 2016

• D. Brockhoff: co-organizer of the Blackbox Optimization Benchmarking workshop (BBOB-2016) at GECCO in Denver, CO, USA

• CEC 2016 special session entitled “Advances in Decomposition-­based Evolutionary Multi­objective Optimization”, Vancouver, Canada, organized by Saul Zapotecas­ Martinez, Bilel Derbel, Qingfu Zhang, Carlos A. Coello Coello, July 2016

• E-G. Talbi: organisation of META'2016 Int. Conf. on Metaheuristics, Marrakech, Morocco, Oct 2016.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• E-G. Talbi, HM'2016

• E-G. Talbi, META'2016

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• CEC -IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2016

• CIBCB - IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2016

• GECCO conference 2016

• HM 2016

• ICORES 2016

• LION Conference 2016

• MICAI 2016

• MIM 2016

• MOD 2016

• PPSN 2016

• ROADEF 2016

• GECCO conference 2016

• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Vancouver, Canada, July 24-29, 2016

• The ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Denver, Colorado, USA, July 20-24, 2016

• IEEE International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (IPDPS/NIDISC'2016), Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 23-27, 2016

• IEEE Intl. Workshop on Parallel Computing and Optimization (IPDPS/PCO), Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 23-27, 2016

• Grid'5000 winter school, Grenoble, France, February 2-5, 2016

• Colloque sur l'Optimisation et les Systèmes d'information (COSI), Sétif, Algérie, May 30 - June 1, 2016

• Intl. Conf. on Contemporary Computing (IC3), Noida, India, Aug. 11-13, 2016

• The 2nd Intl. Conf. on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CloudTech), Marrakesh, Morocco, May 24-26, 2016.

• 8th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), Luxembourg, Dec. 12-15, 2016

• PPSN 2016: 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (Edinburgh, UK, 2016)

• GECCO 2016: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM) track (Denver, USA, 2016)

• CEC 2016: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (Vancouver, Canada, 2016)

• EvoCOP 2016: 16th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Porto, Portugal, 2016)

Reviewer

• Dimo Brockhoff: CEC'2016, GECCO'2016 (EMO track), PPSN'2016, FOGA'2017, EMO'2017

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• L. Jourdan: Review Editor Frontiers in Big Data

• N. Melab: Guest Editor (in collaboration with M. Mezmaz) of a special on Multi/Many-core computing for parallel Metaheuristics in Wiley Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, April 2016.

• N. Melab: Guest Editor (in collaboration with A. Zomaya and I. Chakroun) of a special on Parallel Optimization using/for Multi and Many-core High Performance Computing in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 2016.

• E-G. Talbi : Editor of the Journal « Computers and Industrial Engineering (CAIE, Elsevier)» Area «Computational Intelligence».

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Computation, Journal of Heuristics, Artificial Intelligence Journal

• Applied Soft Computing

• Computers in Biology and Medecine

• Computers & Industrial Engineering

• Computers & Operations Research

• EJOR European Journal of Operational Research

• IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation

• International Journal of Metaheuristics

• International Journal of Molecular Sciences

• International Journal of Production research

• International Transactions in Operational

• JOH Journal of Heuristics

• JOCO Journal of Combinatorial Optimization

• JPDC Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

• Nature Scientific Report

• Soft Computing (SOCO)

• Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

• ACM Computing Surveys

• Computation and Concurrency: Practice and Experience (CCPE)

• Parallel Processing Letters

• Parallel Computing

• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)

• 4OR: A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research (Springer)

• ASOC: Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier)

• CAIE: Computers & Industrial Engineering (Elsevier)

• ITOR: International Transactions in Operational Research (Wiley)

• NEUCOM: Neurocomputing (Elsevier)

Invited Talks

• D. Brockhoff: invited talk on multiobjective optimization, MEXICO/Mascot-Num meeting, Nov 2016, Nantes

• D. Brockhoff: invited tutorial at GECCO'2016 on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, Jul 2016, Denver, CO, USA

• B.Derbel and A. Liefooghe: Designing and understanding EMO algorithms, Invited talk, City University, Hong Kong, November 2016

• A. Liefooghe: Fitness landscape analysis, problem features and performance prediction for multi-objective optimization, Workshop on Landscape-aware heuristic search (PPSN 2016), Edinburgh, UK, September 2016 (joint work with Fabio Daolio, Sébastien Verel, Hernan Aguirre, and Kiyoshi Tanaka)

• L. Jourdan, “Combinatorial optimization for Bioinformatics”, invited talk (1day), summer school of Bioinformatics, Angers, 2016

• L. Jourdan, “The emerging use of Optimization methods for Datamining in Big Data”, invited talk, summer school of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Toulouse, 2016.

• L. Jourdan, “Modélisation et optimisation multi-objectif pour l'extraction de connaissances Le cas des applications médicales”, Mars 2016, Séminaire Expert, Worldline.

• C. Dhaenens “Exemple de collaboration réussie entre l’entreprise et le monde de la recherche”, CCI Grand Lille, Fev. 2016.

• N. Melab: Tutorial on Grid'5000, Arcus international project "E2D2", May 2016, Université Lille 1.

• E-G. Talbi: Multi-objective metaheuristics, Invited seminar, Colorado State University, Fort Colins, Colorado, USA, Mar 2016.

• E-G. Talbi: Optimization under uncertainty, Invited seminar, Univeridad Elche, Elche, Spain, Apr 2016.

• E-G. Talbi: Parallel evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective optimization, Keynote speaker BIOMA’2016 7th Int. Conf. on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications, Bled, Slovenia, May 2016.

• E-G. Talbi: Parallel metaheuristics, Invited seminar, CINVESTAV, Mexico, Sept 2016.

• E-G. Talbi: Combining metaheuristics with mathematical programming and data mining, Keynote speaker, NEO’2016 Int. Workshop on Numerical and Evolutionary Optimization, Tlalnepantla, Mexico, Sept 2016.

• E-G. Talbi: A survey of hybrid metaheuristics with exact methods and machine learning, Tutorial, META’2016 Int. Conf. on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired computing, Marrakech, Morocco, Oct 2016.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• L. Jourdan : Co-president of the working group “ATOM: Multi-objective optimization”, GDR RO.

• L. Jourdan, A. Liefooghe : Secretary of the association “Artificial Evolution” (EA).

• C. Dhaenens: member of the scientific council of GDR RO (Operations research)

• C. Dhaenens: nominated member at Co-NRS, section 6 (National committee of CNRS)

• N. Melab: scientific leader of Grid'5000 (https://www.grid5000.fr) at Lille, Since 2004

• N. Melab: Chargé de Mission of High Performance Computing and Simulation at Université Lille 1, Since 2010

• E-G. Talbi : Co-president of the working group “META: Metaheuristics - Theory and applications”, GDR RO and GDR MACS.

• E-G. Talbi : Co-Chair of the IEEE Task force on Cloud Computing within the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Scientific Expertise

• D. Brockhoff: external reviewer of a research proposal for the National Science Centre Poland

• N. Melab: Member of the advisory committee for the IT and management engineer training at Faculté Polytechnique de Mons

• E-G. Talbi : Expert for Qatar Foundation QNRF projects, 2016.

Research Administration

• C. Dhaenens: Vice-head of CRIStAL laboratory (Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille), common to CNRS, University of Lille and Ecole Centrale de Lille, 430 people.

• L. Jourdan: member of the Bureau du Département de domaine Informatique pour l'école doctorale SPI, University of Lille

• N. Melab: Member of the steering committee of “Maison de la Simulation" at Université Lille 1

• E-G. Talbi, Coordinator of the International Relationships of Inria Lille Nord Europe.