Tutorials

Basics

• Use of the class problem
• Use of the class algorithm
• Use of the class population
• Use of the class island
  • Managing exceptions
• Use of the class archipelago
  • Managing exceptions
• Evolving a population

Coding your own problem (UDP)

• Coding a simple User Defined Problem
  • Possible pitfalls
  • Notes on computational speed
• Coding a User Defined Problem with constraints (NLP)
  • Solving your constrained UDP
  • Do not use a black-box solver if you do not have to
• Coding a User Defined Problem with an integer part (MINLP)
  • Solving your MINLP by relaxation
• Coding a User Defined Problem with multiple objectives

Meta-problems

• Using the decorator meta-problem
  • Hello, decorated world!
  • Logging fitness evaluations
  • What else can be decorated?

Coding your own island (UDI)

• Coding a User Defined Island

Local optimization

• A first tutorial on the use of NLopt solvers
  • I have the gradient
  • I do not have the gradient

Multi-objective optimization

• Basic Multi-Objective Functionalities
• Using pygmo’s moead

Hypervolumes

• Getting started with hypervolumes
• Advanced hypervolume computation and analysis
• Approximating the hypervolume

Advanced Examples

• Benchmarking Extended Ant Colony Optimization on CEC2006 problems
• Participating to the CEC2013 Competition
• Solving the 20 dimensional Schwefel problem
• Comparing algorithms: the case of xNES and CMA-ES
• Benchmarking Multi-Objective Hypervolume-based Ant Colony Optimization on ZDT3 problem
• Benchmarking Nondominated Sorting Particle Swarm Optimizer (NSPSO) on ZDT1 and ZDT2 problems