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==== Dr. Simon Wessing ====


| E-Mail: | simon.wessing{{:staff:at.gif?nolink|}}tu-dortmund.de|

I have left TU Dortmund, so these pages will not be updated anymore. For up-to-date information visit [[http://www.simonwessing.de]].


===== News =====

  * [[staff/wessing/bbcomp|First place on real-world bi-objective problems of BBComp 2017]]
  * Gave a {{:staff:wessing:iccopt2016_folien.pdf |talk}} at [[http://www.iccopt2016.tokyo/|ICCOPT 2016]]
  * [[staff/wessing/bbcomp|Two first places at BBComp 2016]]
  * Second place (first place for alternate rankings) of 25 participants at the [[http://bbcomp.ini.rub.de/results/BBComp2015CEC/summary.html|CEC 2015 black-box optimization competition (BBComp)]]

===== Software =====

  * [[staff/wessing/bbcomp|Information about my entries to the black-box optimization competition (BBComp)]]
  * Python package [[https://pypi.python.org/pypi/diversipy/|diversipy]]: Sample in hypercubes, select diverse subsets, and evaluate diversity indicators
  * Python package [[https://pypi.python.org/pypi/optproblems/|optproblems]]: A collection of test problems for black-box optimization
  * Python package [[https://pypi.python.org/pypi/evoalgos/|evoalgos]]: Modular evolutionary algorithms
  * Python package [[https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dfoalgos/|dfoalgos]]: Derivative-free optimization algorithms
  * SMS-EMOA implementation (in Java) for the optimization library [[http://jmetal.sourceforge.net/|jMetal]]
  * [[staff/wessing/programming|Programming resources]]


===== Teaching =====

  * [[teaching/ep1718sopra|Einführung in die Programmierung (C++) Praktikum 2017/2018]]
  * [[de/rudolph/lehre/po17/start|Praktische Optimerung Übung 2017]]
  * [[teaching/ep1617sopra|Einführung in die Programmierung (C++) Praktikum 2016/2017]]
  * [[de/rudolph/lehre/po16/start|Praktische Optimerung Übung 2016]]
  * [[teaching/ep1516sopra|Einführung in die Programmierung (C++) Praktikum 2015/2016]]
  * [[https://ls10-wiki.cs.tu-dortmund.de/swt/|Softwaretechnik Übung 2015]]
  * [[rudolph/teaching/introci1415/start|Introduction to Computational Intelligence Tutorial 2014/2015]]
  * [[de/rudolph/lehre/po14/start|Praktische Optimerung Übung 2014]]
  * [[rudolph/teaching/introci1314/start|Introduction to Computational Intelligence Tutorial 2013/2014]]
  * [[de/rudolph/lehre/po13/start|Praktische Optimerung Übung 2013]]
  * [[rudolph/teaching/introci1213/start|Introduction to Computational Intelligence Tutorial 2012/2013]]


===== Publications =====


==== Peer reviewed ====

== 2017 ==

  * Simon Wessing, Rosa Pink, Kai Brandenbusch, Günter Rudolph. [[https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54157-0_45|Toward Step-size Adaptation in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization]]. In //Evolutionary Multicriterion Optimization//, pp. 670-684, Springer, 2017.
  * Simon Wessing, Mike Preuss. The True Destination of EGO is Multi-local Optimization. In //4th IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence// (to appear).

== 2016 ==

  * Simon Wessing, Günter Rudolph, Dino Menges. [[https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_52|Comparing Asynchronous and Synchronous Parallelization of the SMS-EMOA]]. In //Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XIV)//, pp. 558-567, Springer, 2016.

  * Simon Wessing, Günter Rudolph, Mike Preuss. [[https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29975-4_4|Assessing Basin Identification Methods for Locating Multiple Optima]]. In Panos M. Pardalos, Anatoly Zhigljavsky, and Julius Žilinskas (eds.): Advances in Stochastic and Deterministic Global Optimization, pp. 53-70, Springer, 2016. 

  * Pascal Kerschke, Mike Preuss, Simon Wessing, Heike Trautmann. [[http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N12110|Low-Budget Exploratory Landscape Analysis on Multiple Peaks Models]]. In //GECCO '16: Proceedings of the 2016 conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation//, pp. 229-236, ACM, 2016.

  * Günter Rudolph, Simon Wessing. [[http://www.mii.lt/Informatica/htm/INFO1099.htm|Linear Time Estimators for Assessing Uniformity of Point Samples in Hypercubes]]. Informatica, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 335-349, 2016. 

  * Simon Wessing, Mike Preuss. [[https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10589-015-9785-x|On multiobjective selection for multimodal optimization]]. Computational Optimization and Applications, Volume 63, Issue 3, pp 875-902, 2016.

== 2015 ==

  * Pascal Kerschke, Mike Preuss, Simon Wessing, Heike Trautmann. [[http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N12111
|Detecting Funnel Structures by Means of Exploratory Landscape Analysis]]. In //GECCO '15: Proceedings of the 2015 conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation//, pp. 265--272, ACM, 2015.

  * Mike Preuss, Simon Wessing, Günter Rudolph, Gabriele Sadowski. [[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-43505-2_58|Solving Phase Equilibrium Problems by Means of Avoidance-based Multiobjectivization]]. In: Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence. pp. 1159--1171, Springer, 2015.

== 2014 ==

  * Simon Wessing, Mike Preuss, Heike Trautmann. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10762-2_14|Stopping Criteria for Multimodal Optimization]]. In //Parallel Problem Solving from Nature -- PPSN XIII//, LNCS 8672, pp. 141--150, Springer, 2014.

  * Bernd Bischl, Simon Wessing, Nadja Bauer, Klaus Friedrichs, Claus Weihs. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09584-4_17|MOI-MBO: Multiobjective Infill for Parallel Model-Based Optimization]]. In //Learning and Intelligent Optimization//, LNCS, pp. 173--186, Springer, 2014.

== 2013 ==

  * Mike Preuss, Simon Wessing. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01128-8_9|Measuring Multimodal Optimization Solution Sets with a View to Multiobjective Techniques]]. In //EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation IV//, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Volume 227, pp. 123--137, Springer, 2013.

  * Simon Wessing, Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2013.6557559|Niching by Multiobjectivization with Neighbor Information: Trade-offs and Benefits]]. In //IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)//, pp. 103--110, 2013.

  * Julian Togelius, Mike Preuss, Nicola Beume, Simon Wessing, Johan Hagelbäck, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Corrado Grappiolo. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10710-012-9174-5|Controllable procedural map generation via multiobjective evolution]]. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp. 245--277, 2013.

  * Simon Wessing. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37192-9_47|Repair Methods for Box Constraints Revisited]]. In //Applications of Evolutionary Computation//, LNCS 7835, pp. 469--478. Springer, 2013.

== 2012 ==

  * Tobias Wagner, Simon Wessing. [[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/EVCO_a_00061|On the Effect of Response Transformations in Sequential Parameter Optimization]]. Evolutionary Computation Journal, Volume 20, Issue 2, pp. 229–248, 2012.

== 2011 ==

  * Boris Naujoks, Heike Trautmann, Simon Wessing, Claus Weihs. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0954410011414120|Advanced concepts for multi-objective evolutionary optimization in aircraft industry]]. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 225(10):1081–1096, 2011.

  * Simon Wessing, Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph. [[http://dl.acm.org/authorize?440232|When Parameter Tuning Actually is Parameter Control]]. In //GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation//, pp. 821--828, 2011.

== 2010 ==

  * Simon Wessing, Nicola Beume, Günter Rudolph, Boris Naujoks. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15844-5_73|Parameter Tuning Boosts Performance of Variation Operators in Multiobjective Optimization]]. In //Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XI//, pp. 728–737, 2010.

  * Julian Togelius, Mike Preuss, Nicola Beume, Simon Wessing, Johan Hagelbäck, and Georgios N. Yannakakis. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ITW.2010.5593346|Multiobjective Exploration of the StarCraft Map Space]]. In //IEEE Conference On Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG)//, pp. 265–272, 2010.

  * Simon Wessing, Boris Naujoks. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2010.5586529|Sequential Parameter Optimization for Multi-Objective Problems]]. In //IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) within the World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI)//, 2010.

  * Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph, Simon Wessing. [[http://dl.acm.org/authorize?244594|Tuning Optimization Algorithms for Real-World Problems by Means of Surrogate Modeling]]. In //GECCO '10: Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation//, pp. 401–408, 2010.

  * Mike Preuss, Nicola Beume, Holger Danielsiek, Tobias Hein, Boris Naujoks, Nico Piatkowski, Raphael Stüer, Andreas Thom, Simon Wessing. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCIAIG.2010.2047645|Towards Intelligent Team Composition and Maneuvering in Realtime Strategy Games]]. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 82–96. 2010.


== 2008 ==

  * Nicola Beume, Tobias Hein, Boris Naujoks, Nico Piatkowski, Mike Preuss, Simon Wessing. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2008.5035622|Intelligent Anti-Grouping in Real-Time Strategy Games]]. In //Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2008)//, pp. 63–70. IEEE Press, 2008. 

  * Nicola Beume, Holger Danielsiek, Christian Eichhorn, Boris Naujoks, Mike Preuss, Klaus Stiller, Simon Wessing. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2008.4631264|Measuring Flow as Concept for Detecting Game Fun in the Pac-Man Game]]. In //Proc. of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008)//, pp. 3447–3454. IEEE Press, 2008. 

==== Other Publications ====

== 2017 ==

  * Simon Wessing. [[http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N33826|Benchmarking the SMS-EMOA with self-adaptation on the bbob-biobj test suite]]. In //GECCO '17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion//, pp. 1772-1779, ACM, 2017

  * Simon Wessing. [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03809|Experimental Analysis of a Novel Stratified Sampling Algorithm for Hypercubes]]. ArXiv e-print 1705.03809, 2017.

  * Simon Wessing, Mike Preuss. [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05724|The True Destination of EGO is Multi-local Optimization]]. ArXiv e-print 1704.05724, 2017.


== 2016 ==

  * Simon Wessing. [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00001|Towards a Systematic Development Process of Optimization Methods]]. ArXiv e-print 1603.00001, 2016.

==2015==

  * Dino A. Menges, Simon Wessing, Günter Rudolph. Asynchrone Parallelisierung des SMS-EMOA zur Parameteroptimierung von mobilen Robotern. In //[[http://dx.doi.org/10.5445/KSP/1000049620|Proceedings. 25. Workshop Computational Intelligence]]//, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Angewandte Informatik - Automatisierungstechnik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, pp. 47-65, 2015.

  * Simon Wessing. [[http://hdl.handle.net/2003/34148|Two-stage methods for multimodal optimization]]. PhD thesis, Technische Universität Dortmund, 2015.

  * Simon Wessing. {{techreports:tr15-01.pdf|The Multiple Peaks Model 2}}. Algorithm Engineering Report TR15-2-001, Technische Universität Dortmund, 2015.

==2014==

  * Simon Wessing, Mike Preuss. {{techreports:tr14-01.pdf|On Multiobjective Selection for Multimodal Optimization}}. Algorithm Engineering Report TR14-2-001, Technische Universität Dortmund, 2014.

  * Simon Wessing, Günter Rudolph, Sven Turck, Christian Klimmek, Sebastian C. Schäfer, Michael Schneider, Ulrich Lehmann. [[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311916.2014.950853|Replacing FEA for Sheet Metal Forming by Surrogate Modeling]]. Cogent Engineering, Volume 1, Issue 1, Paper ID 950853, 2014. 

==2010==

  * Simon Wessing, Tobias Wagner. A Rank Transformation Can Improve Sequential Parameter Optimization. In //Proceedings of the Workshop on Experimental Methods for the Assessment of Computational Systems (WEMACS 2010), {{techreports:tr10-07.pdf|Algorithm Engineering Report TR10-2-007}}//, pp. 32–46, Technische Universität Dortmund, 2010.

  * Jialuo Ding, Simon Wessing, Heike Trautmann, Jörn Mehnen, Boris Naujoks. Sequential Parameter Optimisation for Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimisation of Additive Layer Manufacturing. In //CIRP ICME '10 – 7th CIRP International Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, Innovative and Cognitive Production Technology and Systems//, R. Teti (ed.), 23–25 June 2010, Capri (Gulf of Naples), Italy.


==2009==

  * Simon Wessing. {{techreports/tr09-06.pdf|Towards Optimal Parameterizations of the S-Metric Selection Evolutionary Multi-Objective Algorithm}}. Diploma thesis, Technische Universität Dortmund, 2009.


==2008==

  * Mike Preuss, Nicola Beume, Holger Danielsiek, Tobias Hein, Boris Naujoks, Nico Piatkowski, Raphael Stüer, Andreas Thom, Simon Wessing. [[http://sfbci.tu-dortmund.de/Publications/Reference/Downloads/25508.pdf|Intelligent Group Movement and Selection in Realtime Strategy Games]]. //Reihe CI 255/08, SFB 531//, Technische Universität Dortmund, 2008.

  * Holger Danielsiek, Christian Eichhorn, Tobias Hein, Edina Kurtić, Georg Neugebauer, Nico Piatkowski, Jan Quadflieg, Sebastian Schnelker, Raphael Stüer, Andreas Thom, Simon Wessing. [[http://sfbci.tu-dortmund.de/Publications/Reference/Downloads/25208.pdf|PG511 – CI in Games – Final Report]]. //Reihe CI 252/08, SFB 531//, Technische Universität Dortmund, 2008.


==2007==

  * Holger Danielsiek, Christian Eichhorn, Tobias Hein, Edina Kurtić, Georg Neugebauer, Nico Piatkowski, Michael Puchowezki, Jan Quadflieg, Sebastian Schnelker, Raphael Stüer, Andreas Thom, Simon Wessing. [[http://sfbci.tu-dortmund.de/Publications/Reference/Downloads/23607.pdf|PG511 – CI in Games – Zwischenbericht]]. //Reihe CI 236/07, SFB 531//, Universität Dortmund, 2007.