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Call for Participation: Competition Entries, Deadline *1 July 2016*
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2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Competition on: "Niching
Methods for Multimodal Optimization"
July 25 -- 29, 2016, Vancouver, Canada.
URL:
http://www.epitropakis.co.uk/cec16-niching/competition/
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Objectives
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The aim of the competition is to provide a common platform that
encourages fair and easy comparisons across different niching
algorithms. The competition allows participants to run their own niching
algorithms on 20 benchmark multimodal functions with different
characteristics and levels of difficulty. Researchers are welcome to
evaluate their niching algorithms using this benchmark suite, and report
the results by submitting a paper to the associated niching special
session (i.e., submitting via the online submission system of CEC'2016).
Note that this competition is organized in association with the 2016
IEEE CEC Special Session on Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization.
Participants may submit their results in a report directly to the
special session organizer Michael Epitropakis in order to be counted in
the competition. In addition, the authors are also expected to submit
the solutions found in a separate report, in order for us to validate
the results.
Test suite for the competition as well as the performance measures are
implemented in Matlab, Java, python and C/C++. Please read the following
technical report about these benchmark functions:
Reference: X. Li, A. Engelbrecht, and M.G. Epitropakis, ``Benchmark
Functions for CEC'2013 Special Session and Competition on Niching
Methods for Multimodal Function Optimization'', Technical Report,
Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Group, RMIT University,
Australia, 2013.
To those who may participate in the competition: Please inform Xiaodong
Li or Michael Epitropakis about your participation, so that we can
update you about any correction of bugs or extension of the deadline.
This event are supported by the newly established IEEE CIS Task force on
Multi-modal Optimization (
http://www.epitropakis.co.uk/ieee-mmo/)
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Important Dates
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- Entry Submission: 1 July 2016.
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Organizers
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Michael G. Epitropakis, Lancaster University, UK.
Xiaodong Li, RMIT University, Australia
Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
