PPSN 2020 Workshop : Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation

In the era of explainable and interpretable AI, it is increasingly necessary to develop a deep understanding of how algorithms work and how new algorithms compare to existing ones, both in terms of strengths and weaknesses. For this reason, benchmarking plays a vital role for understanding algorithms’ behavior. Even though benchmarking is a highly-researched topic within the evolutionary computation community, there are still a number of open questions and challenges that should be explored:

(i) most commonly-used benchmarks are too small and cover only a part of the problem space,

(ii) benchmarks lack the complexity of real-world problems, making it difficult to transfer the learned knowledge to work in practice,

(iii) we need to develop proper statistical analysis techniques that can be applied depending on the nature of the data,

(iv) we need to develop user-friendly, openly accessible benchmarking software. This enables a culture of sharing resources to ensure reproducibility, and which helps to avoid common pitfalls in benchmarking optimization techniques. As such, we need to establish new standards for benchmarking in evolutionary computation research so we can objectively compare novel algorithms and fully demonstrate where they excel and where they can be improved.

PPSN 2020 Workshop : Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands. It’s a 5 days event starting on Sep 05, 2020 (Saturday) and will be winded up on Sep 09, 2020 (Wednesday).

PPSN 2020 Workshop falls under the following areas: ALGORITHMS, NATURAL COMPUTING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, etc. Submissions for this Workshop can be made by Jun 08, 2020. Authors can expect the result of submission by Jun 15, 2020. Upon acceptance, authors should submit the final version of the manuscript on or before Jun 22, 2020 to the official website of the Workshop.

Please check the official event website for possible changes before you make any travelling arrangements. Generally, events are strict with their deadlines. It is advisable to check the official website for all the deadlines.

Other Details of the PPSN 2020 Workshop

• Short Name: PPSN 2020 Workshop
• Full Name: Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation
• Timing: 09:00 AM-06:00 PM (expected)
• Fees: Check the official website of PPSN 2020 Workshop
• Event Type: Workshop
• Website Link: https://sites.google.com/view/benchmarking-network/home/activities/PPSN20
• Location/Address: Leiden, The Netherlands