Sunday, 19th March 2017
12:30

Registration

13:30

Opening Session

14:00

Invited Talk
Thomas Stützle
Automated Design of Algorithms from Flexible Algorithm Frameworks

15:00

Break

15:20

Session S-1

Session Chairs: Heike Trautmann and Günter Rudolph
Session Chair: H. Hoos

Session Chair: A. Gaspar-Cunha

15:20

Marlon Alexander Braun, Pradyumn Kumar Shukla and Hartmut Schmeck
Angle-based Preference Models in Multi-objective Optimization

15:45

Jussi Hakanen and Joshua Knowles
On using decision maker preferences with ParEGO

16:10

Longmei Li, Iryna Yevseyeva, Vitor Basto-Fernandes, Heike Trautmann, Ning Jing and Michael
Emmerich
Building and Using an Ontology of Preference-based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms

16:35

Florian Siegmund, Amos Ng and Kalyanmoy Deb
A Comparative Study of Fast Adaptive Preference-Guided Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization

17:00

Break

17:25

Session S-2

Session Chair: D. Brockhoff

17:25

Miriam Pescador-Rojas, Raquel Hernández Gómez, Elizabeth Montero, Nicolás Rojas-Morales,
María-Cristina Riff and Carlos A. Coello CoelloAn Overview of Weighted and Unconstrained Scalarizing Functions

17:50

Naveed Reza Aghamohammadi, Shaul Salomon, Yiming Yan and Robin Purshouse
On the effect of scalarising norm choice in a ParEGO implementation

18:15

Roman Denysiuk and Antonio Gaspar-Cunha
Weighted Stress Function Method for Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition

18:40

Break – Gathering & Walk to Restaurant “Schlossgarten”

19:00

Start of Welcome Reception

21:00

End of Welcome Reception

Monday, 20th March 2017
09:00

Session M-1
09:00

Arnaud Liefooghe, Bilel Derbel, Sébastien Verel, Hernán Aguirre and Kiyoshi Tanaka
A Fitness Landscape Analysis of Pareto Local Search on Bi-objective Permutation Flowshop
Scheduling Problems

09:25

Marie-Eleonore Kessaci-Marmion, Clarisse Dhaenens and Jérémie Humeau
Neutral Neighbors in Bi-objective Optimization: Distribution of the most promising for permutation
problems.

09:50

Kevin Tierney, Joshua Handali, Christian Grimme and Heike Trautmann
Multi-Objective Optimization for Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning

10:15

Break

10:40

Session M-2

Session Chair: T. Stützle

10:40

Ryoji Tanabe and Akira Oyama
The Impact of Population Size, Number of Children, and Number of Reference Points on The
Performance of NSGA-III

11:05

Simon Wessing, Rosa Pink, Kai Brandenbusch and Günter Rudolph
Toward Step-size Adaptation in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

11:30

Aymeric Blot, Alexis Pernet, Laetitia Jourdan, Marie-Eleonore Kessaci-Marmion and Holger Hoos
Automatically Configuring Multi-objective Local Search using Multi-objective Optimisation

12:00

Lunch

13:15

Session M-3

14:30

Session Chair: S. Wessing

Session Chair: R. Purshouse

13:15

Haitham Seada, Mohamed Abouhawwash and Kalyanmoy Deb
Towards a Better Balance of Diversity and Convergence in NSGA-III: First Results

13:40

Flávio Vinícius Cruzeiro Martins, João Sarubbi and Elizabeth Wanner
A Multiobjective Strategy to Allocate Roadside Units in a Vehicular Network with Guaranteed Levels ofService

14:05

Ahmed Khalifa, Mike Preuss and Julian Togelius
Multi-objective Adaptation of a Parameterized GVGAI Agent Towards Several Games

Poster Session (including Coffee & Cookies)

Session Chair: S. Meisel

Pramudita Palar and Koji Shimoyama
Multiple Metamodels for Robustness Estimation in Multi-Objective Robust Optimization
Yves De Smet, Jean-Philippe Hubinont and Jean Rosenfeld
A note on the detection of outliers in a binary outranking relation
Richard Gonçalves, Lucas Pavelski, Carolina Almeida, Josiel Kuk, Sandra Venske and Myriam Delgado
Adaptive Operator Selection for Many-Objective Optimization with NSGA-IIIXavier Gandibleux
Peek -- Shape -- Grab: a methodology in three stages for approximating the non-dominated points ofmultiobjective discrete combinatorial optimization problems with a multiobjective metaheuristic
Ruby Moritz and Sanaz Mostaghim
Heterogeneous Evolutionary Swarms with Partial Redundancy Solving Multi-Objective Tasks

Renan Mendes, Elizabeth Wanner, Flávio Martins and João Sarubbi
Dimensionality Reduction Approach for Many-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Demand Responsive
Transport
Oliver Cuate, Oliver Schütze, Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Liefooghe and El-Ghazali Talbi
An Approach for the Local Exploration of Discrete Many Objective Optimization Problems
Kalyanmoy Deb, Rayan Hussein, Proteek Roy and Gregorio Toscano
Classifying Metamodeling Methodologies for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization: First Results
Andreas Richter, Jascha Achenbach, Stefan Menzel and Mario Botsch
Multi-objective Representation Setups for Deformation-based Design Optimization
Susanne Rosenthal and Markus Borschbach
Design Perspectives of an Evolutionary Process for Multi-Objective Molecular Optimization
Amin Ibrahim, Shahryar Rahnamayan, Miguel Vargas Martin and Kalyanmoy Deb
Fusion of Many-Objective Non-dominated Solutions Using Reference Points
Hao Wang, Andre Deutz, Thomas Bäck and Michael Emmerich
Hypervolume Indicator Gradient Ascent Multi-objective Optimization
Ana Amélia Pereira, Helio Barbosa and Heder Bernardino
Predator-Prey Techniques for Solving Multiobjective Scheduling Problems for Unrelated Parallel Machines

16:10

Competition Session

17:00

Break

17:25

Session M-4

18:40

Session Chairs: Tobias Glasmachers & Michael EmmerichSession Chair: M. Emmerich

17:25

Ke Li, Kalyanmoy Deb, Tolga Altinoz and Xin Yao
Empirical Investigations of Reference Point Based Methods When Facing a Massively Large Number ofObjectives: First Results

17:50

Leonardo Bezerra, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
An empirical assessment of the properties of inverted generational distance indicators on multi- andmany-objective optimization

18:15

Joao Duro and Dhish Saxena
Timing the Decision Support for Real-World Many-Objective Problems

End of Technical Program

Tuesday, 21st March 2017
09:00

Invited Talk
Julian Togelius
Challenges for Multi-Criterion Optimization in Games10:00

Break

10:20

Session T-1

Session Chair: M. Preuss

Session Chair: K. Deb

10:20

Fritz Bökler
The Multiobjective Shortest Path Problem is NP-hard, or is it?

10:45

Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen and Tea Tušar
Quantitative Performance Assessment of Multiobjective Optimizers: The Average Runtime Attainment
Function

11:10

Tobias Glasmachers
A Fast Incremental BSP Tree Archive for Non-dominated Points

11:35

Kaifeng Yang, Michael Emmerich, André Deutz and Carlos Fonseca
Computing 3-D Expected Hypervolume Improvement and Related Integrals in Asymptotically Optimal
Time12:00

Lunch

13:15

Session T-2

Session Chair: Y. de Smet

13:15

Cristóbal Barba-González, José García-Nieto, Antonio J. Nebro and José F. Aldana-Montes
Multi-Objective Big Data Optimization with jMetal and Spark

13:40

Daniel Horn, Melanie Dagge, Xudong Sun and Bernd Bischl
First Investigations on Noisy Model-Based Multi-Objective Optimization

14:05

Vanessa Volz, Günter Rudolph and Boris Naujoks
Surrogate-Assisted Partial Order-Based Evolutionary Optimisation

14:30

Break

14:55

Session T-3

Session Chair: B. Naujoks

14:55

Mario Garza-Fabre, Julia Handl and Joshua Knowles
A New Reduced-Length Genetic Representation for Evolutionary Multiobjective Clustering

15:20

Olivier Sobrie, Vincent Mousseau and Marc Pirlot
A population-based algorithm for learning a Majority Rule sorting model with coalitional veto

15:45

Pascal Kerschke and Christian Grimme
An Expedition to Multi-Modal Multi-Objective Optimization Landscapes

16:10

End of Technical Program

17:30

Guided City Tour Münster
Starts at castle and will end at location of conference dinner.

19:00

Conference Dinner at Restaurant “A2”

23:00

End of Conference DinnerWednesday, 22nd March 2017
09:00

Invited TalkMichael Emmerich
Indicator-Based Multiobjective and Set-Oriented Optimization

10:00

Break

10:20

Session W-1

12:00

Session Chair: C. Coello Coello

10:20

Stefan Eppe and Yves De Smet
On the influence of altering the action set on PROMETHEE II's relative ranks

10:45

Magdalena Lang and Christian Grimme
Towards Standardized and Seamless Integration of Expert Knowledge into Multi-objective Evolutionary
Optimization Algorithms

11:10

Akm Khaled Talukder, Kalyanmoy Deb and Shahryar Rahnamayan
Injection of Extreme Points in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Algorithms

11:35

Julian Blank, Kalyanmoy Deb and Sanaz Mostaghim
Solving the Bi-Objective Traveling Thief Problem with Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms

Closing Session-12:30

Session Chair: O. Schütze

Conference Wrap-up
Farewell

Lunch

Session Chairs: Heike Trautmann & Günter Rudolph