Keynote Speakers

Michael Emmerich
Faculty of Science
LIACS Leiden University, NL

Indicator-Based Multiobjective and Set-Oriented Optimization

Abstract: In 2004, about 12 years ago, term "Indicator-based Multiobjective Optimization" was coined by Eckart Zitzler and Simon Künzli. Already then the road to this new paradigm was paved by pioneering work on performance indicators and using them in bounded size archivers for non-dominated point sets. The basic idea is to use performance indicators for Pareto front approximation directly, in order to guide a population of points towards a well-distributed set on the Pareto front. The research on this type of algorithm was particularly active for the hypervolume indicator, but also other indicators such as the averaged Hausdorff distance, R2 indicator, Sharpe ratio, and epsilon indicators received and are still receiving considerable attention. In this talk some major empirical and theoretical results will be reviewed and a perspective of this field in the light of new developments, such as decomposition-based evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms and set-oriented numerical optimization methods will be provided.

Short CV: Dr. Michael Emmerich is Associate Professor at LIACS, Leiden University, and leader of the Multicriteria Optimization and Decision Analysis research group. He was born in 1973 in Coesfeld (near Münster) and received his doctorate in 2005 from Dortmund University (H.-P. Schwefel promoter). He carried out projects as a researcher at ICD e.V. (Germany), IST Lisbon, University of the Algarve (Portugal), ACCESS Material Science e.V. (Germany), and the FOM/AMOLF institute on Fundamental Science of Matter (Netherlands). He is known for pioneering work on model-assisted and indicator-based multiobjective optimization, and has edited 4 book, and co-authored more than 100 papers in multicriteria optimization algorithms and their application in computational chemistry and engineering.

Thomas Stuetzle
IRIDIA
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Automated Design of Algorithms from Flexible Algorithm Frameworks

Short CV: Dr. Stützle is a senior research associate of the Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS working at the IRIDIA laboratory of Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He received his PhD and habilitation in computer science both from the Computer Science Department of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany in 1998 and 2004, respectively. He is the co-author of two books about "Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' and "Ant Colony Optimization'' and he has extensively published in the wider area of metaheuristics including 21 edited proceedings or books, 9 journal special issues, and more than 200 journal, conference articles and book chapters, many of which are highly cited. His main research interests are in metaheuristics, swarm intelligence, methodologies for engineering stochastic local search algorithms, multi-objective optimization, and automatic algorithm configuration.

Julian Togelius
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
New York University, USA

Challenges for multi-criterion optimization in games

Short CV: Julian Togelius is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, New York University, USA. He works on all aspects of computational intelligence and games and on selected topics in evolutionary computation and evolutionary reinforcement learning. His current main research directions involve search-based procedural content generation in games, general video game playing, player modeling, and fair and relevant benchmarking of game AI through competitions. He is a past chair of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Games, and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Games. Togelius holds a BA from Lund University, an MSc from the University of Sussex, and a PhD from the University of Essex. He has previously worked at IDSIA in Lugano and at the IT University of Copenhagen.

Social program

Welcome Reception

We want to welcome you to EMO 2017 in the Schlossgarten restaurant, which is located right next to Münster's castle, i.e. the venue, where all the presentations will take place.
The castle itself was finished in 1787 as a palace of the Prince-Bishop Maximilian Friedrich and is nowadays home to the university administration - and our conference. This historical site with its facade in a characteristic combination of sandstone and red brick is surrounded by the beautiful botanical garden, along with its greenhouses and the lovely Schlossgarten restaurant, giving you the perfect venue for a nice welcome drink to the conference. If you want to spend more time in the garden or the greenhouses, you can visit them on your own as well. They are open to the public and can be visited daily (admission free, opening hours open areas: 8 am - 7 pm, open hours greenhouses: 8 am - 4.45 pm).

Conference Dinner (and Guided City Tour)

Our conference dinner will take place at the A2, a charming restaurant next to the lake Aasee. Given this setting, you should have the perfect atmosphere for long and intensive discussions.

Prior to the conference dinner, we intend to make a guided city tour through our beautiful city. The details for that tour will follow.

The pictures below should give you some impressions of the A2 restaurant.

Locations

The map below shows you the location of the two venues of our social events, i.e. the Schlossgarten and the A2.