Call for Papers WCCI 2016 Special Session "Advances in Decomposition-based Evolutionary Multi­objective Optimization (ADEMO)"

1st Special Session on Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization based on Decomposition
https://sites.google.com/site/bilelderbelpro/home/ademo-cec16

Aims and Scope

The purpose of this special session is to promote the design, study, and validation of generic approaches for solving multi­-objective optimization problems based on the concept of decomposition. Decomposition-based Evolutionary Multi-­objective Optimization (DEMO) encompasses any technique, concept or framework that takes inspiration from the "divide and conquer" paradigm, by essentially breaking a multi-­objective optimization problem into several sub­problems for which solutions for the original global problem are computed and aggregated in a cooperative manner.

We encourage contributions reporting advances with respect to other decomposition techniques operating in the decision space or other hybrid approaches taking inspiration from operations research and mathematical programming. Many different DMOEAs variants have been proposed, studied and applied to various application domains. However, DEMOs are still in their very early infancy, since only few basic design principles have been established compared to the huge body of literature dedicated to other well-established approaches (e.g. Pareto ranking, indicator-based techniques, etc). The main goal of the proposed session is to encourage research studies that systematically investigate the critical issues in DMOEAs at the aim of understanding their key ingredients and their main dynamics, as well a to develop solid and generic principles for designing them. The long term goal is to contribute to the emergence of a general and unified methodology for the design, the tuning and the performance assessment of DEMOs.

Topics of interests

The topics of interests include (but are not limited to) the following issues:

1. Analysis of algorithmic components and performance assessment of DEMO approaches. Experimental and theoretical investigations on the accuracy of the underlying decomposition strategies, e.g. scalarizing functions techniques, multiple reference points, variable grouping, etc. 
2. Adaptive, self­adaptive, and tuning aspects for the parameter setting and configuration of DEMO approaches. 
3. Design and analysis of new DEMO approaches dedicated to specific combinatorial, constrained and/or continuous domains. 
4. Effective hybridization of single-objective solvers with DEMO approaches, i.e., plug and­ play algorithms based on traditional single objective evolutionary algorithms and meta­ heuristics, such as: Genetic Algorithms (GAs), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Differential Evolution (DE), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Covariance Matrix Evolution Strategy (CMA­ES), Scatter Search (SS), etc. 
5. Adaptation and analysis of DEMO approaches in the context of large scale and many objective problem solving 
6. Application of DEMO for solving real-­world problems. 
7. Design and implementation of DEMO approaches in massively parallel and large scale distributed environment (e.g., GPUs, Clusters, Grids, etc). 
8. Software tools for the design implementation and performance assessment of DEMO approaches

Deadlines and Submission

Submission Deadline: Jan 15, 2016
Notification Due: Mar 15, 2016
Final Version Due: Apr 15, 2016

For the Authors

1. Information on the format and templates for papers can be found here: http://www.wcci2016.org/submission.php 
2. Papers should be submitted via the CEC 2016 paper submission site: http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/cec2016/upload.php 
3. Select "7bn. Advances in Decomposition-­based Evolutionary Multi­objective Optimization (ADEMO)" in the main research topic dropdown list. 
4. Fill out the input fields, upload the PDF file of your paper and finalize your submission  by the deadline of January 15, 2016.

Links information

http://www.wcci2016.org/
https://sites.google.com/site/bilelderbelpro/home/ademo-cec16
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Organizers and Contact

Saúl Zapotecas­-Martínez (saul.zapotecas@gmail.com)
SHINSHU University, Japan
DOLPHIN, Inria Lille Nord Europe, France

Bilel Derbel (bilel.derbel@univ­lille1.fr)
University Lille 1, CRIStAL CNRS UMR9189, France
DOLPHIN, Inria Lille Nord Europe, France

Qingfu Zhang (qingfu.zhang@cityu.edu.hk)
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Carlos A. Coello Coello (ccoello@cs.cinvestav.mx)
CINVESTAV­IPN, Mexico