IEEE CIS ACT Chapter Seminar: A world with constraints. Some experiences in Evolutionary Constrained Optimization

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IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) chapter invites you to: 

Virtual Seminar - 05 Nov 2021, 10-11 am AEDT (Canberra time)

Speaker: Dr. Efrén Mezura-Montes, University of Veracruz, Mexico

Title: A world with constraints. Some experiences in Evolutionary Constrained Optimization

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Abstract:  In this talk, some research works on evolutionary constrained optimization are presented. After stating the problem of interest and remarking the main differences with an unconstrained search space, different topics are discussed, such as surrogate-assisted constrained optimization, dynamic constrained optimization, large-scale constrained optimization, memetic algorithms in constrained optimization and bi-level optimization.

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Speaker biography: 

Dr. Efrén Mezura-Montes is a full-time researcher with the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at the University of Veracruz, MEXICO. His research interests are the design, analysis and application of bio-inspired algorithms to solve complex optimization problems. He has published over 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He also has three edited books and over 12 book chapters published by international publishing companies. From his work, Google Scholar reports over 8,000 citations.

Dr. Mezura-Montes is an Associate Editor of the following journals: “IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation”, “Swarm and Evolutionary Computation” and the “International Journal of Dynamics and Control”. He is also an Editorial Board Member of the following journals: “Complex & Intelligent Systems” and the “Journal of Optimization”. He is a former Editorial Board Member of the journals “Computational Optimization and Applications” and “Soft Computing”.

Dr. Mezura-Montes is a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee and he is the founder of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society task force on Nature-Inspired Constrained Optimization. He is a member of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Soft Computing Technical Committee.

Dr. Mezura-Montes is a Level-III member of the Mexican National Researchers System (SNI). Moreover, Dr. Mezura-Montes is a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC), a Board of Directors member and also a regular member of the Mexican Computing Academy (AMEXCOMP) and also a Technical Committee member of the Mexican Science Council (CONACyT) Collaboration network on Applied Computational Intelligence.

Dr. Mezura-Montes has supervised 16 PhD theses and 43 Master theses. He has also examined over 12 PhD theses and over 45 Master theses, most of them in Mexico, but also in Australia, Argentina and India.

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