SIMCO
(Set- and Indicator-Based Multi-Criteria Optimization)
Welcome to the web page of the SIMCO Lorentz Center workshop. SIMCO stands for Set- and Indicator-Based Multi-Criteria Optimization. The SIMCO workshop took place September 2-6, 2013 at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, The Netherlands. During this workshop, we studied geometrical and algorithmic foundations of set-oriented and indicator-based multi-criteria optimization.
The workshop featured four major topics, all related to SIMCO:
On appropriate set preferences and indicators
The design of set-oriented variation operators
Links to (computational) geometry
Towards SIMCO for non-standard problems
Presentations
All presentations will be collected here.
Working Group Results
Please add your working group results here.
Feedback
… can/should be provided here.
Points from final discussion
Characterization of local optimality w.r.t. unary / n-ary set indicators
Preference articulation on sets of solutions (several different non-standard problems (NSP) included, see below)
Performance assessment: Statistics on sets, multiple runs
Subset selection algorithms: approximation algorithms + exact. (limits?)
Indicators for NSP, computational efficiency, optimal sets
Population/set- vs. individual/element - level approach
Interaction with the user: tools (visualisation in higher dimensions), interaction schemes / workflows, interactive decision map, Multi Criteria Decsision Aid (MCDA), groups of decision
Parameter adaptation, operator selection, bandits, learning, self-adaptation
Run-time analysis, performance guarantees
(Computational) geometry aspects of MOO (solution sets)
Non-Standard Problems (NSP)
representations
robustness
noise
diversity
constraints
interexchangeability)
Please also see the list of open problems.
Organization
Keynote Speakers
Carlos Fonseca, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Tobias Glasmachers, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Joshua Knowles, University of Manchester, UK
Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Workshop schedule as of August 27
The SIMCO workshop is organized by
Dimo Brockhoff
Andre Deutz
Michael Emmerich
Boris Naujoks
at the Lorentz-Center@Oort, the original web page can be found here.
To read more about the topic, we refer to the original proposal or the list of open problems and themes to work on.