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.



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:

--> Benchmark instances and Reference Sets <--




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

--> Find it here <--









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]
  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]
  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]
  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]


  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]


  (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]
  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]
  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]
  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]
  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]
  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
  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
  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]


  (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]
  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]
  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
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Phone
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Last Update: 2016-02-15