Thomas Weise (汤卫思)

A professor at Hefei University.

Here you can find a list of my voluntary scientific activities.

Connections to the Industry

Prof. Weise is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Complexica, an Artificial Intelligence software company hat helps large organizations sell more products and services, and reduce their labor costs and headcount through the use of automated analytics. Complexica is a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for optimizing sales and marketing activities, ranging from promotional planning, pricing, and product mix optimization, through to sales force automation, CRM, and multi-channel quoting and order processing.

Memberships in Societies

  • China Computer Federation (CCF) 中国计算机学会 (Member since 2012)
  • The Benchmarking Network (Member since 2019)
  • COnfiguration and SElection of ALgorithms (COSEAL), an international group of researchers with focus on algorithm selection and algorithm configuration. (Member since 2017)

Invited Talks

  • Frequency Fitness Assignment (频率适应度分配), 2023-04-06, Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学（深圳）) in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
  • Keynote Frequency Fitness Assignment (频率适应度分配), 2023-03-25, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Machine Vision and Intelligent Algorithms (PRMVIA’2023)
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-30, Goethe University of Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-29, Leibnitz University Hannover in Hannover, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-26, at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-25, University of Bremen in Bremen, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-24, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-23, University of Kassel in Kassel, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-22, Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering (IAS) at the University of Stuttgart
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-22, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) at the University of Stuttgart
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-19, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Mainz, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-18, Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-17, Technical University of Munich in Munich, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-16, University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-15, TU Chemnitz in Chemnitz, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-12, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-11, TU Dresden in Dresden, German
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-10, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in Magdeburg, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2018-10-08, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-10-25, Anhui University (安徽大学), Hefei, Anhui, China
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-08-03 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in Munich (München), Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-08-02, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Mainz, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-08-01, University of Cologne in Köln (Cologne), Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-07-31, University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-07-28, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz in Görlitz, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-07-27, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in Magdeburg, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-07-26, Clausthal University of Technology in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-07-25, Technische Universität Ilmenau in Ilmenau, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-07-24, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida in Mittweida, Germany
  • Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-07-21, Chemnitz University of Technology in Chemnitz, Germany Automating Scientific Research in Optimization, 2017-07-20, Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany

Journal Reviewer and Editorships

Memberships in Conference Committees

  • Program Committee: 18th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA XVIII), August 26-29, 2025, Leiden, The Netherlands. ACM.
  • Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2025), July 14-18, 2025, Málaga, Spain / hybrid. ACM.
  • Program Committee: 18th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN’2024), September 15-18, 2024, Hagenberg, Austria.
  • Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2024), July 14-18, 2025, Melbourne, Australia / hybrid. ACM.
  • Program Committee: 27th International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications’2024), April 3-5, 2024, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom, Springer.
  • Program Committee: 17th ACM/SIGEVO Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA XVII), August 30-September 1, 2023, Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. ACM.
  • Program Committee: General Evolutionary Computation and Hybrids (GECH) Track of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2023), July 15-19, 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, ACM.
  • Program Committee: EvoStar’2023, April 12-14, 2024, Brno, Czech Republic. Springer.
  • Program Committee: 12th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO’2023). March 20-24, 2023. Leiden, The Netherlands. Springer.
  • Program Committee: IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (IEEE FOCI’2022), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’2022), December 4–7, 2022, Singapore. IEEE.
  • Program Committee: Tenth International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (WCIDM’2022), part of the 22nd Information Technologies – Applications and Theory (ITAT’2022), September 23–27, 2022, Tatrawest, Slovakia
  • Reviewer: 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’2022), part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE’WCCI), July 18-23, 2022, Padua, Italiy.
  • Reviewer: Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2022), February 22-March 1, 2022, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  • Program Committee: Ninth International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (WCIDM’2021), part of the 21st Information Technologies – Applications and Theory (ITAT’2021), September 24–28, 2021, Hotel Heľpa, Slovakia
  • Program Committee: 2021 Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI’2021), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’2021), December 5-8, 2021, Orlando, Florida, USA
  • Program Committee: Eigth International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (WCIDM’2020), part of the 20th Information Technologies – Applications and Theory (ITAT’2020), September 18–22, 2020, Hotel Tyrapol, Oravská Lesná, Slovakia.
  • Program Committee: 16th ACM/SIGEVO Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA XVI), September 6-8, 2021, FH Vorarlberg Dornbirn, Austria
  • Program Committee: 16th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN’2020), September 5-9, 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Program Committee: Evolutionary Computation for Permutation Problems (ECPERM) Workshop, at the at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2020), July 8-12, 2020, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico
  • Award Committee Member: Open Optimization Competition 2020, at the at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2020), July 8-12, 2020, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico
  • Program Committee: 14th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA’2019), November 22–25, 2019, Zhengzhou, China
  • Program Committee: 7th International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (WCIDM’2019), part of the 19th Information Technologies – Applications and Theory (ITAT 2019), September 22–24, 2019, Donovaly, Slovakia
  • Program Committee: 15th ACM/SIGEVO Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA XV), August 26–29, 2019, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering, Potsdam, Germany
  • Program Committee: Third Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for Permutation Problems at the 2019 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2019), 13-17 July 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Program Committee: AAAI-18 Student Abstract and Poster Program at the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2018), February 2–7, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  • Program Committee: New Standards for Benchmarking in Evolutionary Computation Research workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2018)
  • Program Committee: 2018 International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI’2018), March 29-31, 2018, Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建省), China
  • Program Committee: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’2016), December 6-9, 2016, Athens, Greece
  • Program Committee: 2015 International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI’2015), March 27-29, 2015, Wuyi (武夷), Fujian (福建省), China
  • Reviewer: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’2014), December 2014, Orlando, FL, USA
  • Publicity Chair: The 2014 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA’2014), November 2014, Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), China
  • Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2014), July 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Publicity Co-Chair and Member of Organization Committee: The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL’2013), October 2013, Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), China
  • Organizer: SELP — Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS’2013) which was part of the 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’2013), April 2013, Singapore
  • Program Committee: The 3rd Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET’2012), part of 2012 IEEE/IPSJ 12th International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT’2012), July 2012, Izmir, Turkey
  • Reviewer: 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’2012), July 2012, Brisbane, Australia
  • Reviewer: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2012), July 2012, Philadelphia, USA
  • Reviewer: Special Session on Evolutionary Learning at 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI’2011), December 2011, Perth, Australia
  • Reviewer: 2011 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG’2011), August/Septemer 2011, Seoul, South Korea
  • Program Committee: 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCICC’2011),* August 2011, Banff, Canada
  • Program Committee: 2nd Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET’2011), July 2010, Munich, Germany
  • Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2011 (GECCO’2011), July 2011, Dublin, Ireland
  • Program Committee: 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’2011), June 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  • Reviewer: 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, May 2011, Dublin, Ireland
  • Program Committee: 2011 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems, April 2011, Paris, France
  • Session Chair: Special Session: Web Services Challenge (WS-Challenge) at the 12th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC’2010), November 2010, Shanghai, China
  • Session Chair: The 2010 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA’2010), October 2010, Hefei, Anhui, China
  • Program Committee: 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS’2010), August 2010, Yamagata, Japan
  • Member of Panel Discussion: 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI’2010), July 2010, Beijing, China
  • Session Chair: Special Session on Evolutionary Computing of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI’2010), July 2010, Beijing, China
  • Reviewer: Second International Conference on ‘Networked Digital Technologies’ (NDT’2010), July 2010, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Reviewer: 10th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS’2010), July 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Reviewer: 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’2010), July 2010, Barcelona, Spain
  • Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2010 (GECCO’2010), July 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Program Committee: The Second Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET’2010), July 2010, Seoul, Korea
  • Program Committee: 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (IEEE/ACIS ICIS’2010), August 2010, Yamagata, Japan
  • Program Committee: 1st ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications (SESENA’2010), held under the umbrella of ICSE’2010, May 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Technical program member: 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST’2009), November 2009, London, UK
  • Reviewer: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG’2009), September 2009, Milano, Italy
  • Reviewer: Second International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT’2009), August 2009, London, UK
  • Co-Chair: Web Service Challenge (WSC’2009), part of IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC’2009), July 2009, Vienna, Austria
  • Reviewer: The First International Conference on ‘Networked Digital Technologies’ (NDT’2009), July 2009, Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2009), July 2009, Montréal, Canada
  • Paper Referee: World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECS’2009), June 2009, Shanghai, China
  • Organizer: 2nd Kassel Student Workshop on Security in Distributed Systems (KaSWoSDS’2009), February2009, Kassel, Germany
  • Technical committee: Third International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM’2008), November 2008, London, UK
  • Technical committee: 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI’2008), October 2008, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Program Committee: Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET’2008), July/August 2008, Turku, Finland
  • Co-Chair: Web Service Challenge (WSC’2008), part of IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC’2008) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE’2008), July 2008, Washington, D.C., USA
  • Editor/Organizer: 1st Kassel Student Workshop on Security in Distributed Systems (KaSWoSDS’2008), February 2008, Kassel, Germany
  • Organizer: Computer Science Day / Tag der Informatik, July 2006, University of Kassel

Reviewer for Books and Book Chapters

  • Jelena Jovanovic and Raymond Chiong, Technological and Social Environments for Interactive Learning, Informing Science, Santa Rosa, California, USA. 2014. ISBN: 1932886737.
  • Edwin F. Meyer, Nickolas Falkner, Raja Sooriamurthi, and Zbigniew Michalewicz, A Guide to Teaching Puzzle-based Learning, ISBN: 978-1-4471-6476-0

Reviewer for Science Funds

PhD Referee

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