I am a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof.Marco Dorigo and Prof.Thomas Stützle.
IRIDIA-CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Av. F. Roosevelt 50, CP 194/6, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone direct: +32-2-650 27 11
Phone IRIDIA: +32-2-650 27 29
Fax IRIDIA: +32-2-650 27 15
Email: tliao@ulb.ac.be or liaotianjun@gmail.com
Research interests
Ant Colony Optimization, Swarm intelligence, Evolutionary Strategy in Continuous Optimization.
Experiment Design and Automatic Algorithm Configuration
Education
2003.9-2007.7 Bachelor of System Engineering at National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China.
2007.7-2009.11 Master and Ph.D.Student of Management Science and Engineering at National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China.
2009.11-present Ph.D. Student of Artificial Intelligence at IRIDIA-CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
Project
Meta-X: Metaheuristics for Complex Optimization Problem
E-SWARM: Engineering Swarm Intelligence Systems
Activities
I am a programme committee member of CEC2012(special session of Autonomous Evolutionary Optimization), PPSN2012.
International Journal
Liao T., Molina D, Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T. A Note on the Effects of Enforcing Bound Constraints on Algorithm Comparisons using the IEEE CEC'05 Benchmark Function Suite. Submitted.
Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T. Computational results for an automatically tuned iCMAES on the CEC'05 benchmark set. Submitted.
Liao T., Socha K., Montes de Oca M.A., Stützle T., and Dorigo M. Ant Colony Optimization for Mixed-Variables Problems. Submitted.
International Conference
Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., Aydin D., Stützle T., and Dorigo M. An Incremental Ant Colony Algorithm With Local Search for Continuous Optimization. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011). N. Krasnogor et al. (Eds.) Dublin, Ireland. July 2011. pp. 125-132. Copyright ACM [Winner of the best paper award in the Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence track]
Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T. Tuning Parameters across Mixed Dimensional Instances: A Performance Scalability Study of Sep-G-CMA-ES. Proceedings of the Workshop on Scaling Behaviours of Landscapes, Parameters and Algorithms of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011). E. Özcan, A. J. Parkes, and J. Rowe. (Eds.) Dublin, Ireland. July 2011. pp. 703-706. Copyright ACM..
Aydin D.,Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T. Improving Performance via Population Growth and Local Search: The Case of the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA2011). Angers, France. October 2011. Accepted for publication.
Liao T., Molina D., Stützle T., Montes de Oca M. A., and Dorigo M. An ACO Algorithm Benchmarked on the BBOB Noiseless Function Testbed. Proceedings of the Workshop for Real-Parameter Optimization of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012). Auger A., Hansen N., et al. (Eds.) Philadelphia, USA. July 2012. Accepted for publication.
Extended Abstract and Presentation
Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., Aydin D., Stützle T., and Dorigo M. An Incremental Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm with Local Search for Continuous Domains. 26th Annual Conference of the Belgian Operations Research Society, Bruxelles, February, 2012
Dubois-Lacoste J.,Liao T. Meta-X: Metaheuristics for Complex Optimization Problem (Poster). 7th Annual Research Fair of ULB and UMONS, Bruxelles, March, 2012
Technical Report
Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T. Computational results for an automatically tuned IPOP-CMA-ES on the CEC'05 benchmark set.TR/IRIDIA/2011-022. [Full-text PDF] [Supplementary page]
Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T. Tuning Parameters across Mixed Dimensional Instances: A Performance Scalability Study of Sep-G-CMA-ES.TR/IRIDIA/2011-011. [Full-text PDF] [Supplementary page]
Liao T., Molina D, Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T. A Note on the Effects of Enforcing Bound Constraints on Algorithm Comparisons using the IEEE CEC'05 Benchmark Function Suite.TR/IRIDIA/2011-010. [Full-text PDF] [Supplementary page]
Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., Aydin D., Stützle T., and Dorigo M. An Incremental Ant Colony Algorithm With Local Search for Continuous Optimization.TR/IRIDIA/2011-005. [Full-text PDF] [Supplementary page]Thesis
Tianjun Liao Improved ant colony optimization algorithms for continuous and mixed discrete-continuous optimization problems. Rapport d'avancement de recherches présenté pour la Formation Doctorale en sciences de l'Ingénieur. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Mai 2011 [Full-text PDF]
National Publication (Journal and Conference)
Tianjun Liao, Yanjing Lu, Kewei Yang, Yuejin Tan, Research on Data Management of Weapon Equipment System-of-systems Requirements Modeling Based on NativeXML, Fire Control and Command Control (Chinese Journal with English Abstract),2010, 35(11)
Lin Zhang, Tianjun Liao, Ying,Liu, An Optimization Model for Train Scheduling of Marshalling Station Based On The State Transformation, System Engineering (Chinese Journal with English Abstract), 2009,27(7)
Tianjun Liao, Yanjing Lu, Chengyong Jiao, Kewei Yang, Design and implementation of intelligent security management system of university laboratory, Computer Engineering and Design (Chinese Journal with English Abstract), 2009,30(23)
Tianjun Liao, Yanjing Lu, Kewei Yang, Yuejin Tan, Data Management of System-of-Systems Requirements Modeling. Proceedings of the 3rd Chinese Conference on Equipment system of systems.2008.pp 67-72.
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