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EWG EU/ME: European chapter on Metaheuristics
Last update: 2008-10-24
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See the EU/ME website on http://www.metaheuristics.eu
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| Coordinator: |
Dr. Kenneth Sörensen |
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Centre for Industrial Management
Celestijnenlaan 300a
3001 Heverlee
Belgium |
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| Coordinator: |
Dr. Andreas Reinholtz |
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University of Dortmund
Dept. of Computer Science
Otto-Hahn-Str. 14
44227 Dortmund
Germany |
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| Board: |
Dr. Andreas Fink
Information Systems and Information Management
Technical University of Braunschweig
Braunschweig, Germany
a.fink@tu-bs.de
Dr. Michel Gendreau
Université de Montréal
Centre de recherche sur les transports
Montreal (Québec), Canada
michelg@crt.umontreal.ca
Dr. Georg Kliewer
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Paderborn
Paderborn, Germany
georg.kliewer@upb.de
Dr. Cesar Rego
University of Mississippi
School of Business Administration
University, MS 38677, USA
crego@bus.olemiss.edu
Former members
Christelle Wynants (BE), Marino Widmer (CH), Jorge Pinho de Sousa (PT), Toshihide Ibaraki (JP), Richard Hartl (AT)
Fouder member
Marc Sevaux (FR), former coordinator 2000-2006. |
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| Members: |
In October 2008, the number of EU/MEmbers is over 1300, coming from over 75 different countries all around the world. Thanks to the people who advertize our group and use our different services (mailing list, newsletter, discussion forum, etc.) this number is still growing. We hope to increase our presence in Asia where research is metaheuristics is active. |
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Purpose and history
On March 4-18, 2000, EURO organised a EURO Winter Institute on "Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimisation" in Lac Noir, Switzerland. Both for the participants and the organisers (Alain Hertz and Marino Widmer), it was a great success. During the Winter Institute, seventeen young researchers worked together and shared experiences for fifteen days. This resulted in a group of seventeen motivated young researchers, eager to continue their joint work in their future careers. The organisers, Alain Hertz and Marino Widmer, and also Manuel Laguna, encouraged the participants to create a EURO working group, to stimulate ongoing co-operation in this field of research.
The topic of the Winter Institute was "Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimisation". It was decided to create a new group working in the field of metaheuristics to allow us to include people that use and develop metaheuristics for other than combinatorial optimisation problems.
In Europe and around the world, there exists already a large community working on that subject. The MIC (Metaheuristics International Conference) conference that takes place every two years, is a great success each time. EMO (International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimisation), EuroGP 2001 (4th European Conference on Genetic Programming Congress on Evolutionary Computation), GECCO 2001 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) and CEC 2001 (Congress on Evolutionary Computation) are other recent conferences in that field. Many workshops and streams in conferences or workshops are dedicated to metaheuristics. Also, mailing lists are growing and the modern-heuristics mailing list is one of the most important today. Moreover, the Journal of Heuristics provides an outlet for the work done by researchers in the field of metaheuristics.
Marc Sevaux, Kenneth Sörensen and Christelle Wynants decided to found a working group on metaheuristics to provide a forum for researchers, to intensify the joint European research and to maintain complete and updated information about events, papers, surveys, new algorithms, free positions, etc. One of the first acts of this new working group was to create a comprehensive web site of metaheuristics-related topics.
In January 2001, the EU/ME working group was officially endorsed by EURO and given the status of EURO working group. Since then, the group has continued to increase its member base.
Past activities
EU/ME organizes a yearly EU/MEeting, a succesful series of workshops. More information on each workshop can be found on the EU/ME website: http://webhost.ua.ac.be/eume/wiki/doku.php?id=eume:eumeetings
EU/MEeting 2001 with UK Local Search Group (London)
EU/MEeting 2002 on Multi-Objective Metaheuristics (Paris)
EU/MEeting 2003 on Real-Life Applications of Metaheuristics (Antwerp)
EU/MEeting 2004 on Design and Evaluation of Advanced Hybrid Meta-Heuristics (Nottingham)
EU/MEeting 2005 on Metaheuristics and Large Scale Optimization (Lithuania)
EU/MEeting 2006 on Combination of Metaheuristics and LS with Constraint Programming techniques (Nantes)
EU/MEeting 2006 on Adaptive, Self-adaptive and Multi-level Metaheuristics (Málaga)
EU/MEeting 2007 on Applications of Metaheuristics in the Service Industry (Stuttgart) Proceedings from this meeting can be found here.
EU/MEeting 2008 on Metaheuristics in Logistics and Routing
Older activity reports can be found here: http://webhost.ua.ac.be/eume/wiki/doku.php?id=eume:activities_before_2006
Future activities
EU/MEeting 2009 "Discussing the future"
Publications
MOMH special issue
X. Gandibleux, M. Sevaux, K. Sörensen, and V. T'Kindt, editors. Meta-heuristics for multi-objective optimisation, volume 535 of LNEMS. Springer, 2004. ISBN 3-540-20637-X, 230 pages.
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EJOR special issue
M. Sevaux, K. Sörensen, W. Dullaert and J. Springael, editors. Applications of Metaheuristics, special issue of the European Journal of Operational Research. Available online since 28 November 2005 here.
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