I write because I am organizing the Large-Scale Global Optimization Competition at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation WCCI'2020, with interesting news:
I am not more the Chair of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Large Scale Global Optimization, but I organize in collaboration with them.
The new site tacolab.org to compare your own proposals with existings ones, it do the tables, figures and comparisons for you (including statistical testing).
The last year I have been working in a promising programming language, Julia.
Even I have done a presentation focused on people with Computer Science background (so the talk compares Julia against Python),
Talk in English Also it was given in Spanish
Julia Talk in Spanish The resources of that talk are available at Github Repository.
I usually design my evolutionary algorithms in Python (initially for prototyping, but I am too lazy for doing later a version in C/C++ or similar). However, unfortunately, the majority of people in my area work in Matlab 😭. Thus, sometimes I have to wrap the source code for the benchmarks in competition to python ☺️.
This is the story of the my new package at PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/cec2019comp100digit/.
This package is for being able to participate in the CEC'2019 100-Digit Challenge Competition, website here: http://www.
I write because I am organizing the Large-Scale Global Optimization Competition at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC'2019, with interesting news:
Source code for C++/Matlab/Java/Python.
The source code store during the run all required files with the results, you do not need to worry about that, we do it for you!
In python it is as simple as pip install cec2013lsgo to be able to run the experiments, in C++, and the source code and documentation is freely available.
Several weeks ago, I was at the the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2018), and also at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in Spain, website.
In https://speakerdeck.com/dmolina there are the slides of my presentations in the International Conference.
In particular, my works are the following:
A new algorithm, SHADE-ILS which won the Large Scale Global Optimization, slides. You spanish readers, there is also a new version in Spanish. In English