Euro is the "Association of European Operational Research Societies"
within IFORS, the "International Federation of Operational Research Societies"
EU/ME: the metaheuristics community
| Name | EU/ME: the metaheuristics community |
|---|---|
| Announcement | See the EU/ME website on http://www.metaheuristics.eu |
| Website | http://www.metaheuristics.eu |
| Newsletter | The newsletter has been replaced by a news feed on the web site. |
| Online newsletter | http://www.metaheuristics.eu/ |
| Board | Dr. Andreas Fink Helmut-Schmidt-University Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences Holstenhofweg 85 22043 Hamburg Germany andreas.fink@hsu-hamburg.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) Founder member Marc Sevaux (FR), former coordinator 2000-2006. |
| Coordinator | Andreas Reinholz andreas.reinholz@gmx.de University Dortmund Computer Science Otto-Hahn-Str. 14 44227 Dortmund Germany Phone: +49 2241 403098 |
| Coordinator | Prof. Marc Sevaux marc.sevaux@univ-ubs.fr Université de Bretagne Sud - UEB Lab-STICC - CNRS UMR 3192 Centre de Recherche - BP 92116 2 rue de Saint Maude 56321 Lorient France Phone: +33 297 874 564 Fax: +33 297 874 527 Url: http://www.lab-sticc.eu/~sevaux/ |
| Coordinator | Kenneth Sörensen kenneth.sorensen@ua.ac.be Universiteit Antwerpen Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen Prinsstraat 13 2000 Antwerpen Belgium Phone: +32 265 40 48 |
| 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. |
| Members | In December 2010, the number of EU/MEmbers is 1409, 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. |
| 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, UK) EU/MEeting 2002 on Multi-Objective Metaheuristics (Paris, France) EU/MEeting 2003 on Real-Life Applications of Metaheuristics (Antwerp, Belgium) EU/MEeting 2004 on Design and Evaluation of Advanced Hybrid Meta-Heuristics (Nottingham, UK) EU/MEeting 2005 on Metaheuristics and Large Scale Optimization (Vilnius Lithuania) EU/MEeting 2006 on Combination of Metaheuristics and LS with Constraint Programming techniques (Nantes, France) EU/MEeting 2006 on Adaptive, Self-adaptive and Multi-level Metaheuristics (Málaga, Spain) EU/MEeting 2007 on Applications of Metaheuristics in the Service Industry (Stuttgart, Germany) Proceedings from this meeting can be found here. EU/MEeting 2008 on Metaheuristics in Logistics and Routing, in Troyes, France. Older activity reports can be found here: http://webhost.ua.ac.be/eume/wiki/doku.php?id=eume:activities_before_2006 EU/MEeting 2009 "Discussing the future" in Porto, Portugal. EU/MEeting 2010 on the 10th anniversary of the metaheuristic community, in Lorient, France. EU/MEeting 2011 "Client-centered Logistics and International Aid", Vienna, Austria. |
| Future activities | EU/MEeting 2012 will be organized in Copenhagen, Denmark. See http://webhost.ua.ac.be/eume/workshops/eume12-copenhagen/ |
| 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. .html 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. |
| Budget | The meetings are always free of charge for participants and EURO supports is used to cover local costs such as coffee breaks and lunches. From 2011, EU/ME has decided, in addition to the traditional support to EU/MEetings, to sponsor different events. In 2012, there will be a PhD course in Norway, where EU/ME will support two candidates. More information on http://kursinfo.himolde.no/forskningsgrupper/optimering/phdkurs/index.htm |
| Last modification | 2011-12-18 |
