Organized Events
Here you can find the academic events that I have organized or co-organized.
1. 2nd Hefei-VU-Napier Zoomposium
Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Daan van den Berg, and Sarah Louise Thomson. Second Hefei-VU-Napier Zoomposium on Optimization, May 16, 2025, online workshop with eight talks.
2. 1st Hefei-VU-Napier Zoomposium
Daan van den Berg and Thomas Weise (汤卫思). First Hefei-VU-Napier Zoomposium on Optimization, January 26, 2024, online workshop with seven talks.
3. AABOH @ GECCO 2021
Anna V. Kononova, Hao Wang, Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Carola Doerr, Thomas Bäck, Fabio Caraffini, and Johann Dreo. Analysing Algorithmic Behaviour of Optimisation Heuristics Workshop (AABOH’2021) at the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’21), July 10-14, 2021 in Lille, France.
4. BENCHMARKING @ GECCO 2021
Jürgen Branke, Carola Doerr, Tome Eftimov, Pascal Kerschke, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Boris Naujoks, Luís Paquete, Vanessa Volz, and Thomas Weise (汤卫思). Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation (BENCHMARKING’2021) Workshop at the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’21), July 10-14, 2021 in Lille, France.
5. BOCIA @ CEC 2021
Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Aleš Zamuda, and Markus Wagner. Special Session on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA’2021) at the 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021), June 28-July 1, 2021 in Kraków, Poland.
6. BENCHMARK @ PPSN 2020
Thomas Bäck, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Jakob Bossek, Bilel Derbel, Carola Doerr, Tome Eftimov, Pascal Kerschke, William La Cava, Arnaud Liefooghe, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Boris Naujoks, Pietro Simone Oliveto, Patryk Orzechowski, Mike Preuss, Jérémy Rapin, Ofer M. Shir, Olivier Teytaud, Heike Trautmann, Ryan J. Urbanowicz, Vanessa Volz, Markus Wagner, Hao Wang, Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Borys Wróbel, and Aleš Zamuda. Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation (BENCHMARK@PPSN’2020) Workshop at the Sixteenth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XVI), September 5-9, 2020 in Leiden, The Netherlands.
7. BENCHMARK @ GECCO 2020
Thomas Bäck, Carola Doerr, Tome Eftimov, Pascal Kerschke, William La Cava, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Boris Naujoks, Pietro Simone Oliveto, Patryk Orzechowski, Mike Preuss, Jérémy Rapin, Ofer M. Shir, Olivier Teytaud, Heike Trautmann, Ryan J. Urbanowicz, Vanessa Volz, Markus Wagner, Hao Wang, Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Borys Wróbel, and Aleš Zamuda. Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation (BENCHMARK@GECCO) Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020), July 8-12, 2020, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
8. BB-DOB @ GECCO 2019
Carola Doerr, Pietro Simone Oliveto, Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Borys Wróbel, and Aleš Zamuda. Black Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB) Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2019), July 13-17, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.
9. BEADO @ CEC 2019
Markus Wagner, Thomas Weise (汤卫思), and Aleš Zamuda. Special Session on Benchmarking of Evolutionary Algorithms for Discrete Optimization (BEADO) at the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’19), June 10-13, 2019 in Wellington, New Zealand.
10. Applied Soft Computing Benchmarking Special Issue 2018/2019
Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Bin LI (李斌), Markus Wagner, Xingyi ZHANG (张兴义), and Jörg Lässig. Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms published in the Applied Soft Computing journal published by Elsevier B.V. and indexed by EI and SCIE. The special issue was open for submissions from July 2018 and closed in April 14, 2019. It is a virtual special issues, where papers were published as soon as they were accepted.
11. BB-DOB @ PPSN 2018
Pietro Simone Oliveto, Markus Wagner, Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Borys Wróbel, and Aleš Zamuda. Black-Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB@PPSN) Workshop at the Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XV), 8-9 September 2018, Coimbra, Portugal.
12. BB-DOB @ GECCO 2018
Pietro Simone Oliveto, Markus Wagner, Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Borys Wróbel, and Aleš Zamuda. Black-Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB@GECCO</a>) Workshop at the 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018), July 15-19, 2018 in Kyoto, Japan.
13. BOCIA @ ICACI 2018
Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Bin LI (李斌), Markus Wagner, Xingyi ZHANG (张兴义), and Jörg Lässig. International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA) at the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), March 29-31, 2018 in Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建省), China, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-5386-4362-4.
14. SITA-UBRI Workshop in Hefei 2015
Thomas Weise (汤卫思)and Jörg Lässig. SITA-UBRI Joint Workshop on Sustainable Logistics, November 5, 2015, Hefei, Anhui, China.
15. Special Session @ SSCI 2014
Thomas Weise (汤卫思)and Jörg Lässig. Special Session on Benchmarking and Testing for Production and Logistics Optimization of the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics at the 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2014), December 9-12, 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA.
16. IWNICA 2014
The 2014 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA’2014),* November 3-5, 2014, Hefei, Anhui, China. Honorary General Chair: Guoliang CHEN (陈国良); Workshop Co-Chairs: Xin YAO (姚新), Ke TANG (唐珂), and Bin LI (李斌). Workshop Publicity and International Liaison Co-Chairs: Thomas Weise (汤卫思) and Jinlong LI (李金龙).
17. IDEAL 2013
The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL’2013),, October 20-23, 2013, Hefei, Anhui, China. Hosted and organized by the USTC-Birmingham Joint Research Institute in Intelligent Computation and Its Applications (UBRI). General Chair: Xin YAO (姚新); Programme Chair: Hujun YIN; Programme Co-Chairs: Ke TANG (唐珂), Yang GAO (高阳), Frank Klawonn, Minho Lee; Publicity Co-Chairs: Emilio Santiago Corchado Rodríguez, Jose A. Costa, and Thomas Weise (汤卫思).
18. SELP @ SSCI 2013
Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Jörg Lässig, Alexandre Devert, and Yi MEI. Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning (SELP) of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics at the 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’2013), April 15-19, 2013, Singapore.
19. WSC @ CEC 2010
M. Brian Blake, Thomas Weise (汤卫思), and Steffen Bleul. 2010 Web Service Challenge (WSC-2010) on Semantic Web Service Composition with Quality-of-Service at the Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC), November 11, 2010, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
20. Evolutionary Computing @ ICCI 2010
Thomas Weise (汤卫思), Raymond Chiong, and Zhenyu YANG (杨振宇). Special Session on Evolutionary Computing of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI’2010), July 7-9, 2010, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.