Grants Completed

Short-Term Scientific Missions

Start date: 2026-03-23 End date: 2026-06-19 Awarded: 2026-02-19 Report approved: 2026-07-28

Efficient MCTS Variants for Stochastic Environments and Simultaneous Action Spaces

Research visit to Maastricht University, Netherlands

Start date: 2026-05-18 End date: 2026-06-06 Awarded: 2026-03-29 Report approved: 2026-07-28

Modular Algorithm Components for Combinatorial Optimisation within the ROAR-NET API

Research visit to Jönköping University, Sweden

Start date: 2026-05-11 End date: 2026-05-22 Awarded: 2026-03-10 Report approved: 2026-07-02

Towards a Constrained Multiobjective Suite of Test Problems with Realistic Difficulties and Known Pareto Sets

Research visit to Inria Saclay Centre, Palaiseau, France

Start date: 2026-05-04 End date: 2026-05-15 Awarded: 2026-03-29 Report approved: 2026-07-02

Towards More General Metaheuristics for Multi-Objective Mixed Numerical-Combinatorial Optimisation Problems

Research visit to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, Netherlands

Start date: 2026-03-02 End date: 2026-03-31 Awarded: 2026-02-19 Report approved: 2026-05-04

Extensive Benchmarking of the PlatEMO Algorithms on the Bi-Objective Test Suite from the COCO Platform

Research visit to Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Start date: 2025-09-15 End date: 2025-09-26 Awarded: 2025-01-29 Report approved: 2025-10-31

Multi-Objective Optimization and Knowledge-Driven Decision Making: Application to a Real Problem on Polymer Injection Molding

Research visit to University of Skövde, Sweden

Start date: 2025-09-08 End date: 2025-09-19 Awarded: 2025-06-05 Report approved: 2025-10-31

From Models to the ROAR-NET API and Back

Research visit to King's College London, United Kingdom

Start date: 2025-09-08 End date: 2025-09-19 Awarded: 2025-06-05 Report approved: 2025-10-31

Towards Deriving Incremental Optimization Problems from Batch Specifications of ROAs

Research visit to King's College London, United Kingdom

Start date: 2025-09-01 End date: 2025-09-12 Awarded: 2025-06-30 Report approved: 2025-10-31

A Generic Tool for Sustainable Benchmarking

Research visit to INRIA Rennes, France

Start date: 2025-09-01 End date: 2025-09-12 Awarded: 2025-06-30 Report approved: 2025-10-31

Hardware-Independent Benchmarking

Research visit to INRIA Rennes, France

Start date: 2025-08-25 End date: 2025-09-12 Awarded: 2025-05-02 Report approved: 2025-10-31

Robust Randomized Search Heuristics for Healthcare Logistics Under Uncertainty

Research visit to LIACS, Leiden University, Netherlands

Start date: 2025-07-21 End date: 2025-08-08 Awarded: 2025-06-05 Report approved: 2025-09-08

Measuring Algorithm Components' Contribution

Research visit to Jönköping University, Sweden

Start date: 2025-07-14 End date: 2025-08-08 Awarded: 2025-04-04 Report approved: 2025-09-08

Decision and Objective Space Representations (DO-REP)

Research visit to Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Start date: 2025-07-04 End date: 2025-07-10 Awarded: 2025-03-07 Report approved: 2025-07-28

Enhancing Search Algorithms for Computational Biology: Advanced Techniques and Applications

Research visit to the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Start date: 2025-04-10 End date: 2025-06-25 Awarded: 2025-03-07 Report approved: 2025-08-19

Diagnosis of Pathologies in Dams by Establishing Symptomatic Patterns Defined from Numerical Modeling and Machine Learning

Research visit to Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Start date: 2025-06-02 End date: 2025-06-20 Awarded: 2025-05-02 Report approved: 2025-07-22

Analyzing a Non-Elitist Evolution Strategy Underlying Multiplicative Noise in the Objective Function Through Markov Chains

Research visit to Inria Saclay, Palaiseau, France

Start date: 2025-04-22 End date: 2025-06-20 Awarded: 2025-03-07 Report approved: 2025-06-30

Exploiting Evolutionary Algorithms for Synthetic Data Generation

Research visit to the University of Trieste, Italy

Start date: 2025-05-01 End date: 2025-05-30 Awarded: 2025-04-04 Report approved: 2025-06-30

Empirical Drift Analysis for Mixed-Integer Optimization

Research visit to the University of Tsukuba, Japan

Start date: 2025-05-09 End date: 2025-05-24 Awarded: 2025-04-04 Report approved: 2025-06-30

Mixed-Integer Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimisation for Designing Centrifugal Pumps

Research visit to the University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Start date: 2025-03-10 End date: 2025-03-21 Awarded: 2025-01-29 Report approved: 2025-04-25

Grouping Strategies on Two-Phase Methods for Biobjective Combinatorial Optimisation

Research visit to Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, Paris, France

Start date: 2024-09-01 End date: 2024-09-30 Awarded: 2024-07-31 Report approved: 2024-11-06

Automatic Configuration of Algorithms for Optimization in Logistics and Transport Problems

Research visit to Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Start date: 2024-07-15 End date: 2024-09-30 Awarded: 2024-07-03 Report approved: 2024-10-28

A Multitask Model as Fitness Function for a Generative Model for Drug Design

Research visit to McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Start date: 2024-09-23 End date: 2024-09-28 Awarded: 2024-06-19 Report approved: 2024-11-06

Advancing ROA Education and Benchmarking

Research visit to the University of Coimbra, Portugal

Start date: 2024-09-21 End date: 2024-09-28 Awarded: 2024-09-03 Report approved: 2024-10-28

Optimization Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Structural Relations in Structural Equation Modeling

Research visit to the NEOMA Business School, Paris, France

Start date: 2024-09-12 End date: 2024-09-28 Awarded: 2024-07-03 Report approved: 2024-10-28

Exploring Path Relinking for the Multiobjective Quasi-Clique Problem

Research visit to the University of Wuppertal, Germany

Start date: 2024-09-02 End date: 2024-09-27 Awarded: 2024-07-05 Report approved: 2024-11-06

Benchmarking for Learning Algorithms

Research visit to Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Start date: 2024-09-15 End date: 2024-09-21 Awarded: 2024-07-03 Report approved: 2024-10-08

Optimization Methods for Innovative Last-Mile Delivery Operations

Research visit to the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Start date: 2024-09-08 End date: 2024-09-21 Awarded: 2024-07-03 Report approved: 2024-10-28

Optimal Control Strategies in a Random Two-Disease Epidemiological Model

Research visit to the University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Start date: 2024-08-22 End date: 2024-09-05 Awarded: 2024-07-31 Report approved: 2024-10-28

AutoMORK

Research visit to the University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Start date: 2024-08-20 End date: 2024-08-27 Awarded: 2024-07-31 Report approved: 2024-10-08

Collaborative Research on Modular Algorithm Framework

Research visit to IRIDIA-CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Start date: 2024-06-24 End date: 2024-07-11 Awarded: 2024-06-11 Report approved: 2024-08-29

Development of Open-Source Libraries for Extending Existing Optimization Problem Modelling Frameworks Using University Timetabling as a Case Study

Research visit to the University of Udine, Italy

Start date: 2024-06-20 End date: 2024-07-06 Awarded: 2024-06-11 Report approved: 2024-08-10

Project Development of “Search-based Automated Repair of Cyber-Physical Systems”

Research visit to the Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway

Young Researcher and Innovator Conference Grants

Start date: 2026-07-13 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-05-18

Fairness and Symbolic Regression

Poster presentation at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2026), 13-17 July 2026, San José, Costa Rica

Start date: 2026-07-13 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-06-08

IDEM Enough? Evolving Highly Nonlinear Idempotent Boolean Functions

Oral presentation at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2026), 13-17 July 2026, San José, Costa Rica

Start date: 2026-07-13 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-06-08

Interactive LLM-assisted Curriculum Learning for Multi-Task Evolutionary Policy Search

Oral presentation at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2026), 13-17 July 2026, San José, Costa Rica

Start date: 2026-07-13 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-05-18

Utilizing Evolution Strategies to Train Transformers in Reinforcement Learning

Poster presentation at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2026), 13-17 July 2026, San José, Costa Rica

Start date: 2026-07-13 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-05-18

Visualizing the Semantic Space Exploration of Ensemble Methods

Poster presentation at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2026), 13-17 July 2026, San José, Costa Rica

Start date: 2026-07-12 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-05-18

Drone-Assisted Home Healthcare Planning Under Uncertainty

Oral presentation at the 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2026), 12-17 July 2026, Vienna, Austria

Start date: 2026-07-12 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-06-08

Multi-Neighborhood Search for the AGV Scheduling Problem with Battery Constraints

Oral presentation at the 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2026), 12-17 July 2026, Vienna, Austria

Start date: 2026-07-12 End date: 2026-07-17 Awarded: 2026-05-18

Optimization of Aerial Wildfire Suppression Under Uncertain Fire Spread

Oral presentation at the 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2026), 12-17 July 2026, Vienna, Austria

Start date: 2026-04-08 End date: 2026-04-10 Awarded: 2026-02-19 Report approved: 2026-05-12

NEVO-GSPT: Population-Based Neural Network Evolution Using Inflate and Deflate Operators

Oral and poster presentation of a full paper at the 29th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP, part of Evostar 2026), 8-10 April 2026, Toulouse, France

Start date: 2025-09-07 End date: 2025-09-12 Awarded: 2025-07-25 Report approved: 2025-10-31

LLM-Driven Algorithm Discovery and Tuning

Oral presentation of a tutorial at the AutoML 25 International Conference on Automated Machine Learning, 8-11 September 2025, New York City, United States

Start date: 2025-08-26 End date: 2025-08-29 Awarded: 2025-07-25 Report approved: 2025-10-31

Efficient Online Automated Algorithm Selection in the Face of Data-Drift in Optimisation Problem Instances

Poster presentation of a full paper at the 18th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms FOGA XVIII, 27-29 August 2025, Leiden, Netherlands

Start date: 2025-07-14 End date: 2025-07-19 Awarded: 2025-05-13 Report approved: 2025-08-19

Evolving Typed Token Processing Networks

Oral presentation of a workshop paper at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2025), 14-18 July 2025, Malaga, Spain

Start date: 2025-07-14 End date: 2025-07-19 Awarded: 2025-05-13 Report approved: 2025-08-19

Learning the Particle Swarm Optimization Velocity Update via Genetic Programming

Oral presentation of a workshop paper at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2025), 14-18 July 2025, Malaga, Spain

Start date: 2025-07-13 End date: 2025-07-19 Awarded: 2025-05-13 Report approved: 2025-08-19

On the Importance of Reward Design in Reinforcement Learning-Based Dynamic Algorithm Configuration: A Case Study on OneMax with (1 + (λ,λ))-GA

Oral presentation of a full paper at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2025), 14-18 July 2025, Malaga, Spain

Start date: 2025-06-21 End date: 2025-06-26 Awarded: 2025-03-13 Report approved: 2025-07-22

A Metaheuristic for the Location-or-Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery

Oral presentation at the 34th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2025), 22-25 June 2025, Leeds, United Kingdom

Start date: 2025-06-21 End date: 2025-06-26 Awarded: 2025-03-13 Report approved: 2025-07-22

Using Equitable Optimization for the Hazmat Transport Network Design Problem

Oral presentation at the 34th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2025), 22-25 June 2025, Leeds, United Kingdom

Inclusiveness Target Country Conference Grants

Start date: 2024-09-09 End date: 2024-09-13 Awarded: 2024-07-21 Report approved: 2024-08-10

A Metaheuristic for the Maximum Coverage Facility Location Problem with Drone

Oral presentation at the OR66 Annual Conference, 10-12 September 2024, Bangor, United Kingdom

Start date: 2024-07-13 End date: 2024-07-19 Awarded: 2024-06-19 Report approved: 2024-08-29

Enhancing Algorithm Performance Prediction in Constrained Multiobjective Optimization Using Additional Training Problems

Oral presentation of a full paper at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2024), 14-18 July 2024, Melbourne, Australia

Start date: 2024-06-27 End date: 2024-07-08 Awarded: 2024-06-19 Report approved: 2024-08-10

Designing Metaheuristics with Large Language Models: Challenges and Opportunities

Oral presentation of a tutorial at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024), 30 June-5 July 2024, Yokohama, Japan

Start date: 2024-06-26 End date: 2024-06-28 Awarded: 2024-05-28 Report approved: 2024-08-29

A Variety of Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation in a White Noise Environment

Oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Applied Mathematics in Engineering (ICAME’24), 26-28 June 2024, Ayvalık - Balıkesir, Türkiye

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COST Action CA22137
Action Chair: Dr. Carlos M. Fonseca
Start Date: 2 October 2023
End Date: 1 October 2027
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