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Theses

  1. Manuel López-Ibáñez. Operational Optimisation of Water Distribution Networks. PhD thesis, School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University, UK, 2009.
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  2. Manuel López-Ibáñez. Multi-objective Ant Colony Optimization. Diploma thesis, Intellectics Group, Computer Science Department, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, 2004.
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International Journals

  1. Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle. The Automatic Design of Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2012. Accepted.
  2. 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: 10.1007/s10472-011-9235-0 ]
  3. Manuel López-Ibáñez, T. Devi Prasad, and Ben Paechter. Representations and Evolutionary Operators for the Scheduling of Pump Operations in Water Distribution Networks. Evolutionary Computation, 19(3):429–467, 2011.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1162/EVCO_a_00035 |  instances  |  PDF (preprint) ]
  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: 10.1016/j.cor.2010.10.008 | supplementary information ]
  5. Manuel López-Ibáñez and Christian Blum. Beam-ACO for the travelling salesman problem with time windows. Computers & Operations Research, 37(9):1570–1583, 2010.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1016/j.cor.2009.11.015 | instances ]
  6. Nicola Beume, Carlos M. Fonseca, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Luís Paquete, and Jan Vahrenhold. On the complexity of computing the hypervolume indicator. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(5):1075–1082, 2009.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1109/TEVC.2009.2015575 | software ]
  7. Christian Blum, María J. Blesa, and Manuel López-Ibáñez. Beam search for the longest common subsequence problem. Computers & Operations Research, 36(12):3178–3186, 2009.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1016/j.cor.2009.02.005 ]
  8. Manuel López-Ibáñez, T. Devi Prasad, and Ben Paechter. Ant Colony Optimisation for the Optimal Control of Pumps in Water Distribution Networks. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, 134(4):337–346, 2008.
  9. Manuel López-Ibáñez, Luís Paquete, and Thomas Stützle. Hybrid Population-based Algorithms for the Bi-objective Quadratic Assignment Problem. Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, 5(1):111–137, 2006.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1007/s10852-005-9034-x ]

Book Chapters

  1. Christian Blum and Manuel López-Ibáñez. Ant Colony Optimization. In The Industrial Electronics Handbook: Intelligent Systems. CRC Press, second edition, 2011.
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  2. Thomas Stützle, Manuel López-Ibáñez, P. Pellegrini, Michael Maur, Marco Montes de Oca, Mauro Birattari, and Marco Dorigo. Parameter Adaptation in Ant Colony Optimization. In Y. Hamadi, E. Monfroy, and F. Saubion, editors, Autonomous Search. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2011. To appear.
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  3. Thomas Stützle, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Marco Dorigo. A Concise Overview of Applications of Ant Colony Optimization. In Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 2011.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1002/9780470400531.eorms0001 ]
  4. Manuel López-Ibáñez, Luís Paquete, and Thomas Stützle. Exploratory Analysis of Stochastic Local Search Algorithms in Biobjective Optimization. In T. Bartz-Beielstein, M. Chiarandini, L. Paquete, and M. Preuss, editors, Experimental Methods for the Analysis of Optimization Algorithms, pages 209–222. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2010.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02538-9_9 | software ]
  5. Luís Paquete, Thomas Stützle, and Manuel López-Ibáñez. Using experimental design to analyze stochastic local search algorithms for multiobjective problems. In K. F. Doerner, M. Gendreau, P. Greistorfer, W. Gutjahr, R. F. Hartl, and M. Reimann, editors, Metaheuristics: Progress in Complex Systems Optimization, volume 39 of Operations Research / Computer Science Interfaces, pages 325–344. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2007.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-71921-4_17 ]

Conference Papers

  1. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Thomas Stützle. Pareto Local Search Algorithms for Anytime Bi-objective Optimization. In J.-K. Hao and M. Middendorf, editors, Proceedings of EvoCOP 2012 - 12th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, volume 7245 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 206–217. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2012.
  2. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Thomas Stützle. Automatic configuration of state-of-the-art multi-objective algorithms using the TP+PLS framework. In N. Krasnogor et al., editors, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2011, pages 2019–2026. ACM press, New York, NY, 2011.
    [ bibtex | ACM DL Author-ize servicePDF  | doi: 10.1145/2001576.2001847 ]
  3. Manuel López-Ibáñez, Joshua D. Knowles, and Marco Laumanns. On Sequential Online Archiving of Objective Vectors. In R. H. C. Takahashi et al., editors, Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (EMO 2011), volume 6576 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 46–60. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.
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  4. Carlos M. Fonseca, Andreia P. Guerreiro, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Luís Paquete. On the Computation of the Empirical Attainment Function. In R. H. C. Takahashi et al., editors, Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (EMO 2011), volume 6576 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 106–120. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.
    [ bibtex | software  | doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-19893-9_8 ]
  5. Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle. Automatic Configuration of Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms. In M. Dorigo et al., editors, ANTS 2010, volume 6234 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 95–106. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2010.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_9 ]
  6. Michael Maur, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Thomas Stützle. Pre-scheduled and adaptive parameter variation in MAX-MIN Ant System. In H. Ishibuchi et al., editors, Proceedings of the 2010 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2010), pages 3823–3830. IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2010.
    [ bibtex  | PDF | doi: 10.1109/CEC.2010.5586332 ]
  7. Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle. The impact of design choices of multi-objective ant colony optimization algorithms on performance: An experimental study on the biobjective TSP. In GECCO 2010, pages 71–78. ACM press, New York, NY, 2010.
    ★ Best paper award
  8. 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, pages 52–67. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2010.
    ★ Best paper award
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-13800-3_5 ]
  9. Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle. An Analysis of Algorithmic Components for Multiobjective Ant Colony Optimization: A Case Study on the Biobjective TSP. In P. Collet et al., editors, Artificial Evolution, volume 5975 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 134–145. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2010.
    ★ 3rd best paper award
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14156-0_12 ]
  10. Manuel López-Ibáñez, Christian Blum, Dhananjay Thiruvady, Andreas T. Ernst, and Bernd Meyer. Beam-ACO based on stochastic sampling for makespan optimization concerning the TSP with time windows. In C. Cotta and P. Cowling, editors, Proceedings of EvoCOP 2009 - 9th European Conference Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, volume 5482 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 97–108. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-01009-5_9 ]
  11. Manuel López-Ibáñez and Christian Blum. Beam-ACO Based on Stochastic Sampling: A Case Study on the TSP with Time Windows. In Proceedings of LION 3 - 3rd International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, volume 5851 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 59–73. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-11169-3_5 ]
  12. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Thomas Stützle. Effective Hybrid Stochastic Local Search Algorithms for Biobjective Permutation Flowshop Scheduling. In M. J. Blesa, C. Blum, L. Di Gaspero, A. Roli, M. Sampels, and A. Schaerf, editors, Hybrid Metaheuristics, volume 5818 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 100–114. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2009.
    [ bibtex  |  doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-04918-7_8  |  supplementary information ]
  13. Manuel López-Ibáñez, T. Devi Prasad, and Ben Paechter. Parallel optimisation of pump schedules with a thread-safe variant of EPANET toolkit. In Jakobus E. van Zyl, A. A. Ilemobade, and H. E. Jacobs, editors, Proceedings of the 10th Annual Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference (WDSA 2008). ASCE, August 2008.
    [ bibtex  | doi: 10.1061/41024(340)40 | PDF |  software ]
  14. Manuel López-Ibáñez, T. Devi Prasad, and Ben Paechter. Solving optimal pump control problem using max-min ant system. In Dirk Thierens et al., editor, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), volume 1, page 176, London, UK, July 2007.
    [ bibtex  | PDF ]
  15. Carlos M. Fonseca, Luís Paquete, and Manuel López-Ibáñez. An improved dimension - sweep algorithm for the hypervolume indicator. In Proceedings of the 2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'06), pages 1157–1163. IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, July 2006.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1109/CEC.2006.1688440 | PDF |  software  ]
  16. Manuel López-Ibáñez, T. Devi Prasad, and Ben Paechter. Multi-objective Optimisation of the Pump Scheduling Problem using SPEA2. In Proceedings of the 2005 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2005), volume 1, pages 435–442. IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, September 2005.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1109/CEC.2005.1554716 | PDF |  Presentation (PDF) ]
  17. Manuel López-Ibáñez, T. Devi Prasad, and Ben Paechter. Optimal pump scheduling: Representation and multiple objectives. In Dragan A. Savic, Godfrey A. Walters, Roger King, and Soon Thiam-Khu, editors, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI 2005), volume 1, pages 117–122, University of Exeter, UK, September 2005.
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  18. Luís Paquete, Thomas Stützle, and Manuel López-Ibáñez. Towards the empirical analysis of SLS algorithms for multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems through experimental design. In 6th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2005), Vienna, Austria, 2005.
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  19. Manuel López-Ibáñez, Luís Paquete, and Thomas Stützle. On the Design of ACO for the Biobjective Quadratic Assignment Problem. In M. Dorigo et al., editors, Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 4th International Workshop, ANTS 2004, volume 3172 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 214–225. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2004.
    [ bibtex | doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-28646-2_19 ]

Technical Reports

  1. Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle. The Automatic Design of Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2011-003, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2011. Published in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
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  2. Manuel López-Ibáñez, Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Thomas Stützle, and Mauro Birattari. The irace package, Iterated Race for Automatic Algorithm Configuration. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2011-004, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2011.
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  3. Manuel López-Ibáñez, Joshua D. Knowles, and Marco Laumanns. On Sequential Online Archiving of Objective Vectors. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2011-001, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, 2011. This is a revised version of the one published in EMO 2011.
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  4. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Thomas Stützle. Improving the Anytime Behavior of Two-Phase Local Search. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2010-022, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2010. Published in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.
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  5. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Thomas Stützle. A Hybrid TP+PLS Algorithm for Bi-objective Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2010-019, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, 2010. Published in Computers & Operations Research.
    [ bibtex ]
  6. Thomas Stützle, Manuel López-Ibáñez, P. Pellegrini, Michael Maur, Marco Montes de Oca, Mauro Birattari, and Marco Dorigo. Parameter Adaptation in Ant Colony Optimization. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2010-002, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, January 2010. Published as a book chapter.
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  7. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Thomas Stützle. Adaptive “Anytime” Two-Phase Local Search. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2009-026, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, 2010. Published in the proceedings of LION 4.
    [ bibtex ]
  8. Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Thomas Stützle. Effective Hybrid Stochastic Local Search Algorithms for Biobjective Permutation Flowshop Scheduling. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2009-020, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, June 2009. Published in the proceedings of Hybrid Metaheuristics 2009.
    [ bibtex ]
  9. Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle. An Analysis of Algorithmic Components for Multiobjective Ant Colony Optimization: A Case Study on the Biobjective TSP. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2009-019, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, June 2009. Published in the proceedings of Evolution Artificielle, 2009.
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  10. Manuel López-Ibáñez, Luís Paquete, and Thomas Stützle. Exploratory analysis of stochastic local search algorithms in biobjective optimization. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2009-015, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, May 2009. Published as a book chapter.
    [ bibtex ]
  11. Christian Blum, María J. Blesa, and Manuel López-Ibáñez. Beam search for the longest common subsequence problem. Technical Report LSI-08-29, Department LSI, Univeristat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008. Published in Computers & Operations Research.
    [ bibtex ]
  12. Manuel López-Ibáñez and Christian Blum. Beam-ACO Based on Stochastic Sampling: A Case Study on the TSP with Time Windows. Technical Report LSI-08-28, Department LSI, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008. Extended version published in Computers & Operations Research.
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  13. Nicola Beume, Carlos M. Fonseca, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Luís Paquete, and Jan Vahrenhold. On the complexity of computing the hypervolume indicator. Technical Report CI-235/07, University of Dortmund, December 2007. Published in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
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  14. Luís Paquete, Carlos M. Fonseca, and Manuel López-Ibáñez. An optimal algorithm for a special case of Klee's measure problem in three dimensions. Technical Report CSI-RT-I-01/2006, CSI, Universidade do Algarve, 2006. Superseded by paper in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
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  15. Luís Paquete, Thomas Stützle, and Manuel López-Ibáñez. On the design and analysis of SLS algorithms for multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2005/029, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2005.
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  16. Manuel López-Ibáñez, Luís Paquete, and Thomas Stützle. Hybrid population-based algorithms for the bi-objective quadratic assignment problem. Technical Report AIDA-04-11, FG Intellektik, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt, December 2004. Published in Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms.
    [ bibtex ]

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