Welcome! Bienvenue !

I am post-doctoral researcher at IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence laboratory of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Before that, I received in July 2009 a MSc in Computer Science, specialization Optimization in Operations Research, from the Université de Nantes in France.
I received in May 2014 a PhD in Computer Science, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. I prepared my PhD thesis at IRIDIA, under the supervision of Thomas Stützle, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Mauro Birattari. I was funded by the European Commission through the Marie Curie ITN MIBISOC.

I am working on metaheuristics and stochastic local search applied to multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems. In particular, I am interested in automated design, adaptation and configuration of algorithms to produce better algorithms and\or to require less human efforts.

I am currently funded by the European Commission through the project COLOMBO.

My h-index is 9. My Erdős number is 4.

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You may be interested by our reference non-dominated sets for permutation flow-shop scheduling problems, obtained with the new state-of-the-art algorithm we proposed:

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Together with Manuel López-Ibáñez, I am co-developer, co-maintainer of the
irace software package, a tool for automatic algorithm configuration.

You can find a free-access version of most of the following papers here.
Alternatively, you can write me to obtain a paper.

  International Journals

1. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Anytime Pareto Local Search
   European Journal of Operational Research, 243(2):369-385, 2015.
   [Bibtex] [doi]

   		  @Article{'DubLopStu2015,
   		     author =      { J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste  and
   		                     Manuel L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez  and
   		                     Thomas St{\"u}tzle },
   		     title =       {Anytime Pareto Local Search},
                        journal={European journal of operational research},
                        volume={243},
                        number={2},
                        pages={369--385},
                        year={2015}
   		  }
   		

2. Franco Mascia, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, and Thomas Stützle
   Grammar-based generation of stochastic local search heuristics through automatic algorithm configuration tools.
   Computers & Operations Research, 51:190–199, 2014.
   [Bibtex] [doi] [Supplementary Material]

                     @Article{MasLopDubStu2014,
                        author =      { Franco Mascia and 
   	                             Manuel L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez and
                                        J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste  and  
                                        Thomas St{\"u}tzle },
                        title =       {Grammar-based generation of stochastic local search heuristics through automatic algorithm configuration tools},
                        journal =     {Computers & Operations Research},  
                        year =        2014,
                        volume =      51,
                        pages =       {190--199},
                        doi =          {10.1016/j.cor.2014.05.020},
                     }
                   

3. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Improving the Anytime Behavior of Two-Phase Local Search.
   Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 61(2):125–154, 2011.
   [Bibtex] [doi] [Supplementary Material]

   		  @Article{DubLopStu2010amai,
   		     author =      { J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste  and  
   		                     Manuel L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez  and  
   		                     Thomas St{\"u}tzle },
   		     title =       {Improving the Anytime Behavior of Two-Phase Local Search},
   		     journal =     {Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence},
   		     year =        2011,
                        volume =      61,
   		     number =      2,
   		     pages =       {125--154},
   		     doi =         {10.1007/s10472-011-9235-0}
   		  }
   		

4. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   A Hybrid TP+PLS Algorithm for Bi-objective Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems.
   Computers & Operations Research, 38(8):1219–1236, 2011.
   [Bibtex] [doi] [Supplementary Material]

   		  @Article{DubLopStu2011cor,
   		     author =      { J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste  and  
   		                     Manuel L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez  and  
   		                     Thomas St{\"u}tzle },
   		     title =       {A Hybrid {TP+PLS} Algorithm for Bi-objective Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems},
   		     journal =     {Computers & Operations Research},
   		     year =        2011,
   		     volume =      38,
   		     number =      8,
   		     pages =       {1219--1236},
   		     doi =         {10.1016/j.cor.2010.10.008},
   		  }
   		

   
   
   
   

  Book Chapters

1. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Combining Two Search Paradigms for Multi-objective Optimization: Two-Phase and Pareto Local Search.
   In E-G. Talbi, editor, Hybrid Metaheuristics, volume 434 of Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer Verlag, 2013.
   [Bibtex] [doi]

   		  @Article{DubLopStu2013hm,
   		     author =      { J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste  and  
   		                     Manuel L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez  and  
   		                     Thomas St{\"u}tzle },
   	             title =       "Combining Two Search Paradigms for Multi-objective
   	                            Optimization: {T}wo-{P}hase and {P}areto Local Search",
   		     booktitle =   {Hybrid Metaheuristics},
                        publisher =   {Springer Verlag},
                        editor =      {E-G. Talbi},
                        series =      {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
                        volume =      434,
                        year =        2013,
   		     pages =       {97--117},
   		     doi =         {10.1007/978-3-642-30671-6_3},
   		  }
   		

   
   
   
   

  (peer-reviewed) International Conferences

1. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Holger H. Hoos, and Thomas Stützle
   On the Empirical Scaling Behaviour of State-of-the-art Local Search Algorithms for the Euclidean TSP
   In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2015, Proceedings, Madrid, Spain, July 2015.
   [Bibtex] [doi]

   
   	          @inproceedings{DubHooStu:2015,
                     author = {J{\'e}r{\'e}mie and Marmion, Holger H. Hoos and St{\"u}tzle, Thomas},
                     title={On the Empirical Scaling Behaviour of State-of-the-art
                            Local Search Algorithms for the Euclidean TSP},
                     author={Dubois-Lacoste, J{\'e}r{\'e}mie and Hoos, Holger H and St{\"u}tzle, Thomas},
                     booktitle={Proceedings of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference},
                     pages={377--384},
                     year={2015},
                     organization={ACM}
                     }
   		

2. Franco Mascia, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Marie-Eléonore Marmion, and Thomas Stützle
   Algorithm comparison by automatically configurable stochastic local search frameworks: a case study using flow-shop scheduling problems
   In Maria J. Blesa, Christian Blum and Stefan Voß editors, Proceedings of Hybrid Metaheuristics 9th International Workshop (HM 2014), Hamburg, Germany, June 11-13, 2014, volume 8457 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2014.
   [Bibtex] [doi]

   
   	          @inproceedings{MasciaIDMS:2014,
                     author = {Mascia, Franco and L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez, Manuel and Dubois-Lacoste, J{\'e}r{\'e}mie and Marmion, Marie-{\'E}l{\'e}onore and St{\"u}tzle, Thomas},
                     title = {Algorithm comparison by automatically configurable stochastic local search frameworks: a case study using flow-shop scheduling problems},
                     booktitle = {Hybrid Metaheuristics, 9th International Workshop, HM 2014, Hamburg, Germany, June 11-13, 2014}, %. Proceedings},
                     volume = {8457},
                     year = {2014},
                     series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
                     pages = {30-44},
                     editor = {Maria J. Blesa and Christian Blum and Stefan Vo{\ss}},
                     publisher = {Springer International Publishing, Switzerland},
                     doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-07644-7_3}
                     }
   		

3. Franco Mascia, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, and Thomas Stützle
   From Grammars to Parameters: Automatic Iterated Greedy Design for the Permutation Flow-shop Problem with Weighted Tardiness
   In Panos Pardalos and Giuseppe Nicosia editors, Proceedings of Learning and Intelligent Optimization 7th International Conference (LION 7), Catania, Italy, January 7-11, 2013, volume 7997 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2013.
   [Bibtex] [doi]

   
   	          @inproceedings{MasciaLDS:2013,
                     author = {Mascia, Franco and L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez, Manuel and Dubois-Lacoste, J{\'e}r{\'e}mie and St{\"u}tzle, Thomas},
                     title = {From Grammars to Parameters: Automatic Iterated Greedy Design for the Permutation Flow-shop Problem with Weighted Tardiness},
                     booktitle = {Learning and Intelligent Optimization, 7th International Conference, LION 7, Catania, Italy, January 7-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers},
                     volume = {7997},
                     year = {2013},
                     series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
                     pages = {321--334},
                     editor = {Pardalos, Panos and Nicosia, Giuseppe},
                     publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
                     doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-44973-4_36}
                     }
   		

4. Youssef S. G. Nashed, Pablo Mesejo, Roberto Ugolotti, Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste and Stefano Cagnoni
   A Comparative Study of Three GPU-Based Metaheuristics.
   In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN XII, volume 7492 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Heidelberg, 2012.
   [Bibtex] [doi]

   
   	          @InCollection{NasMesUgo2012,
                        author =       { Youssef S. G. Nashed and Pablo Mesejo and Roberto Ugolotti
   	                              and J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste and Stefano Cagnoni },
                        title =        "A Comparative Study of Three {GPU}-Based Metaheuristics",
                        crossref =     "PPSN2012-2",
                        pages =        {398--407},
                        doi =          {10.1007/978-3-642-32964-7_40},
                     }
   
   	          @Book{PPSN2012-2,
                        booktitle =    {PPSN 2012, Part II},
                        title =        {Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN XII},
                        editor =       "Carlos A. {Coello Coello} and Vincenzo Cutello and
                                        Kalyanmoy Deb and Stephanie Forrest and Giuseppe Nicosia and
                                        Mario Pavone",
   		     series =       {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
   		     publisher =    {Springer, Heidelberg, Germany},
                        year =         2012,
                        volume =       7492
                     }
   		

5. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Pareto Local Search Algorithms for Anytime Bi-Objective Optimization.
   Proceedings of EvoCOP 2012 -- 12th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, volume 7245 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Heidelberg, 2012.
   [Bibtex] [doi] [Supplementary Material]

   		  
   		  @InCollection{DubLopStu12:evocop,
   		     author =       { J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste  and  
   		                      Manuel L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez  and  
   		                      Thomas St{\"u}tzle },
   		     title =        "Pareto Local Search Algorithms for Anytime Bi-Objective Optimization",
   		     pages =        {206--217},
   		     crossref =     {EVOCOP2012},
   		  }
   
   		  @Book{EVOCOP2012,
   		     title =        {Proceedings of EvoCOP 2012 -- 12th European 
   		                     Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial 
   		                     Optimization},
   		     booktitle =    {Proceedings of EvoCOP 2012 -- 12th European 
   		                     Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial 
   		                     Optimization},
   		     editor =       {Jin-Kao Hao and Martin Middendorf},
   		     year =         2012,
   		     volume =       7245,
   		     series =       {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
   		     publisher =    {Springer, Heidelberg, Germany},
   		  }
   		

6. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Automatic configuration of state-of-the-art multi-objective optimizers using the TP+PLS framework.
   In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2011, Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, July 2011.
   [Bibtex] [doi] [Supplementary Material] ★ Nominated for the Best Paper Award of the Self-* track

   		  @Incollection{DubLopStu11:gecco,
   		     author =       { J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste  and  
   		                      Manuel L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez  and  
   		                      Thomas St{\"u}tzle },
   		     title =        {Automatic configuration of state-of-the-art multi-objective 
   		                     optimizers using the TP+PLS framework},
   		     crossref =     {GECCO2011},
   		     pages =        {2019--2026},
   		     doi =          {10.1145/2001576.2001847}
   		  }
   
   		  @Book{GECCO2011,
   		     title =        "Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference,
                                        GECCO 2011, Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, July
                                        12-16, 2011",
   		     booktitle =    "Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary
                                        Computation Conference, GECCO 2011",
   		     editor =       {N. Krasnogor and others},
   		     year =         2011,
   		     publisher =    {ACM press},
   		     address =      {New York, NY},
   		  }
   		

7. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Adaptive "Anytime" Two-Phase Local Search.
   In Learning and Intelligent Optimization, 4th International Conference, LION 4, volume 6073 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Heidelberg, 2010.
   [Bibtex] [doi] [Supplementary Material] ★ Best Paper Award

   		  @Incollection{DubLopStu10:lion-bfsp,
   		     author =       { J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste  and  
   		                      Manuel L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez  and  
   		                      Thomas St{\"u}tzle },
   		     title =        {Adaptive ``Anytime'' Two-Phase Local Search},
   		     crossref =     {LION2010},
   		     pages =        {52--67},
   		     doi =          {10.1007/978-3-642-13800-3_5}
   		  }
   
   		  @Book{LION2010,
   		     title =        {4th International Conference, LION 4, Venice, Italy,
                                        January 18-22, 2010. Selected Papers},
   		     booktitle =    {Learning and Intelligent Optimization, 4th
                                        International Conference, LION 4},
   		     year =         2010,
   		     series =       {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
   		     volume =       6073,
   		     editors =      {Christian Blum and Roberto Battiti},
   		     publisher =    {Springer, Heidelberg, Germany},
   		     doi =          {10.1007/978-3-642-13800-3},
   		  }
   		

8. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Effective hybrid stochastic local search algorithms for biobjective permutation flowshop scheduling.
   In Hybrid Metaheuristics - 6th International Workshop, HM 2009, volume 5818 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009.
   [Bibtex] [doi] [Supplementary Material]

   		  @INPROCEEDINGS{DubLopStu09:hm-bfsp,
   		     author =     { J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste  and  
   		                    Manuel L{\'o}pez-Ib{\'a}{\~n}ez  and  
   		                    Thomas St{\"u}tzle },
   		     title =      {Effective Hybrid Stochastic Local Search Algorithms
   		                   for Biobjective Permutation Flowshop Scheduling},
   		     crossref = {HM2009}
   		     pages = {100--114},
   		  }
   
   		  @PROCEEDINGS{HM2009,
   		     title =      {Hybrid Metaheuristics -- 6th International Workshop, HM 2009},
   		     booktitle =  {Hybrid Metaheuristics -- 6th International Workshop, HM 2009},
   		     year =       2009,
   		     series =     {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
   		     volume =     5818,
   		     publisher =  {Springer, Heidelberg, Germany}
   		  }
   		

   
   
   
   

  (peer-reviewed) Extended Abstracts

1. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Automatic Configuration of TPLS+PLS Algorithms for Bi-objective Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems.
   ALIO/EURO 2011, Workshop On Applied Combinatorial Optimization, Porto, Portugal, May 2011.
   
2. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
   Weight Setting Strategies for Two-Phase Local Search: A Study on Biobjective Permutation Flowshop Scheduling.
   SLS-DS 2009: Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2009-024, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, September 2009.
   
   
   

  Abstracts with presentation

1. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Anytime Local-Search Algorithms for Multi-Objective Optimization.
   EURO 2012: 25th European Conference on Operational Research , Vilnius, Lituania, 2012.
   
2. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Anytime Improvements for Pareto Local Search.
   ORBEL 2012: 26th Annual Conference of the Belgian Operations Research Society , Brussels, Belgium, 2012.
   
3. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   Anytime Two-Phase Local Search.
   ORBEL 2011: 25th Annual Conference of the Belgian Operations Research Society , Ghent, Belgium, 2011.
   
4. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle
   A Hybrid Algorithm for Bi-objective Flowshop Scheduling.
   ORBEL 2010: 24th Annual Conference of the Belgian Operations Research Society , Liege, Belgium, 2010.
   
   
   

  Thesis

1. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
   Anytime Local Search for Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization: Design, Analysis and Automatic Configuration .
   PhD thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 2014.
   [Bibtex]
   

   		  @phdthesis{Dubois14,
   		  author =    {J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste},
   		  title =     {Anytime Local Search for Multi-Objective
                     Combinatorial Optimization: Design,
                     Analysis and Automatic Configuration
                     },
   		  school =    {IRIDIA, Universit{\'e} Libre de Bruxelles},
   		  year =      2014,
   		  address =   {Brussels, Belgium}
   		  }
   		

2. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
   Effective Stochastic Local Search Algorithms For Bi-Objective Permutation Flowshop Scheduling.
   Rapport d'avancement de recherches présenté pour la Formation Doctorale en sciences de l'Ingénieur. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Mai 2010.
   [Bibtex]
   

   		  @MastersThesis{Dubois10,
   		  author =    {J{\'e}r{\'e}mie Dubois-Lacoste},
   		  title =     {Effective Stochastic Local Search Algorithms 
   		               For Bi-Objective Permutation Flowshop Scheduling},
   		  school =    {IRIDIA, Universit{\'e} Libre de Bruxelles},
   		  year =      2010,
   		  address =   {Brussels, Belgium}
   		  }
   		

3. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
   A study of Pareto and Two-Phase Local Search Algorithms for Biobjective Permutation Flowshop Scheduling.
   Master's thesis. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, June 2009.
   

Postal address
IRIDIA CP 194/6
Université Libre de Bruxelles
50 Av. F. Roosevelt
1050 Brussels, Belgium.

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