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https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=7998
Lab responsibilities
2018-01-26T09:02:22Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Didactics */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Volker<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Backup_Server | Backup server maintenance]]<br />
| Alberto (+Federico), Roman <br />
| MB<br />
| Manuel's role is to check that system works<br />
|-<br />
| [http://majorana.ulb.ac.be Cluster] maintenance<br />
| Federico, Alberto<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Next PhD student of Mauro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Laser_Cutter | Laser Cutter]]<br />
| Ken -> Next PhD student of Mauro<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| CAD Workstation<br />
| Michael, DJ<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 3D Printer<br />
| Michael, DJ<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Photo_Video | Photo-Video]]<br />
| Marco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Muriel<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Websites of completed projects and previous members<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website and mailing list<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Volker<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Optimization mailing list<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics mailing list<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alberto<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Volker<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and editorial activities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Marco<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Federico<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Muriel<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| ???<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Marco<br />
| MB<br />
| Maintenance of website/database + techrep covers for non-latex users. Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ARGoS<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Tracking System]]<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
| E-puck hardware / Argos<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Gripper hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Kilogrid / kilobots<br />
| Marco<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-413: Implementation exercises<br />
| Federico<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO + PSO<br />
| Hayfa, Christian<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Lorenzo, Antoine<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop ARGoS<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=7581
Lab responsibilities
2016-11-21T09:01:50Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Volker<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Backup_Server | Backup server maintenance]]<br />
| Alberto (+Federico), Roman <br />
| MB<br />
| Manuel's role is to check that system works<br />
|-<br />
| [http://majorana.ulb.ac.be Cluster] maintenance<br />
| Federico, Alberto<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Next PhD student of Mauro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Laser_Cutter | Laser Cutter]]<br />
| Ken -> Next PhD student of Mauro<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| CAD Workstation<br />
| Michael, DJ<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 3D Printer<br />
| Michael, DJ<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Photo_Video | Photo-Video]]<br />
| Marco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Muriel<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Websites of completed projects and previous members<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website and mailing list<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Volker<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Optimization mailing list<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics mailing list<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alberto<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Volker<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and editorial activities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Marco<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Federico<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Muriel<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| ???<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Marco<br />
| MB<br />
| Maintenance of website/database + techrep covers for non-latex users. Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ARGoS<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Tracking System]]<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
| E-puck hardware / Argos<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Gripper hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Kilogrid / kilobots<br />
| Marco<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-413: Implementation exercises<br />
| Federico<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO + PSO<br />
| Leslie, Hayfa<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Lorenzo, Antoine<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop ARGoS<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=7580
Lab responsibilities
2016-11-21T09:01:00Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Volker<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Backup_Server | Backup server maintenance]]<br />
| Alberto (+Federico), Roman <br />
| MB<br />
| Manuel's role is to check that system works<br />
|-<br />
| [http://majorana.ulb.ac.be Cluster] maintenance<br />
| Federico, Alberto<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Next PhD student of Mauro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Laser_Cutter | Laser Cutter]]<br />
| Ken -> Next PhD student of Mauro<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| CAD Workstation<br />
| Michael, DJ<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 3D Printer<br />
| Michael, DJ<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Photo_Video | Photo-Video]]<br />
| Marco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Muriel<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Websites of completed projects and previous members<br />
| ???<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website and mailing list<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Volker<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics mailing list<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alberto<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Volker<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and editorial activities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Marco<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Federico<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Muriel<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| ???<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Hayfa<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Marco<br />
| MB<br />
| Maintenance of website/database + techrep covers for non-latex users. Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ARGoS<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Tracking System]]<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
| E-puck hardware / Argos<br />
| Antoine<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Gripper hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Kilogrid / kilobots<br />
| Marco<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-413: Implementation exercises<br />
| Federico<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO + PSO<br />
| Leslie, Hayfa<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Lorenzo, Antoine<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop ARGoS<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=7174
Lab responsibilities
2015-10-22T10:29:18Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Didactics */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Lorenzo, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Backup_Server | Backup server maintenance]]<br />
| Thibaut, Manuel <br />
| MB<br />
| Manuel's role is to check that system works<br />
|-<br />
| [http://majorana.ulb.ac.be Cluster] maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Federico, Alberto<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Laser_Cutter | Laser Cutter]]<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| CAD Workstation<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 3D Printer<br />
| Dhananjay, Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Photo_Video | Photo-Video]]<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Dhananjay<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Muriel<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Leslie, Aurélien<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Websites of completed projects and previous members<br />
| Rehan<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website and mailing list<br />
| Leonardo, Leslie<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics mailing list<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alberto<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and editorial activities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| AAAI 2015 Video Competition<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2016<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Matheuristics 2016<br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco -> Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MB<br />
| Maintenance of website/database + techrep covers for non-latex users. Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ARGoS<br />
| Carlo, Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Tracking System]]<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
| E-puck hardware / Argos<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Gripper hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Kilobot electronic carpet<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Aurélien<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-413: Implementation exercises<br />
| TBD<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO + PSO<br />
| Leslie, Lin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Lorenzo, Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop ARGoS<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=7173
Lab responsibilities
2015-10-22T10:28:53Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Didactics */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Lorenzo, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Backup_Server | Backup server maintenance]]<br />
| Thibaut, Manuel <br />
| MB<br />
| Manuel's role is to check that system works<br />
|-<br />
| [http://majorana.ulb.ac.be Cluster] maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Federico, Alberto<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Laser_Cutter | Laser Cutter]]<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| CAD Workstation<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 3D Printer<br />
| Dhananjay, Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Photo_Video | Photo-Video]]<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Dhananjay<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Muriel<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Leslie, Aurélien<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Websites of completed projects and previous members<br />
| Rehan<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website and mailing list<br />
| Leonardo, Leslie<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics mailing list<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alberto<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and editorial activities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| AAAI 2015 Video Competition<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2016<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Matheuristics 2016<br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco -> Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MB<br />
| Maintenance of website/database + techrep covers for non-latex users. Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ARGoS<br />
| Carlo, Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Tracking System]]<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
| E-puck hardware / Argos<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Gripper hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Kilobot electronic carpet<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Aurélien<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-413: Implementation exercises<br />
| TBD<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO + PSO<br />
| Leslie, Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Lorenzo, Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop ARGoS<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=7166
Lab responsibilities
2015-09-25T12:47:52Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Didactics */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Lorenzo, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Backup_Server | Backup server maintenance]]<br />
| Thibaut, Manuel <br />
| MB<br />
| Manuel's role is to check that system works<br />
|-<br />
| [http://majorana.ulb.ac.be Cluster] maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Federico, Alberto<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Laser_Cutter | Laser Cutter]]<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| CAD Workstation<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 3D Printer<br />
| Dhananjay, Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Photo_Video | Photo-Video]]<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Dhananjay<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Muriel<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Leslie, Aurélien<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Websites of completed projects and previous members<br />
| Rehan<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website and mailing list<br />
| Leonardo, Leslie<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics mailing list<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alberto<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and editorial activities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| AAAI 2015 Video Competition<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2016<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Matheuristics 2016<br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco -> Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MB<br />
| Maintenance of website/database + techrep covers for non-latex users. Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ARGoS<br />
| Carlo, Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Tracking System]]<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
| E-puck hardware / Argos<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Gripper hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Kilobot electronic carpet<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Aurélien<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-413: Implementation exercises<br />
| TBD<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO + PSO<br />
| Leslie, Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Lorenzo, Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop ARGoS<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=7165
Lab responsibilities
2015-09-25T12:46:50Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Organization of conferences and editorial activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Lorenzo, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Backup_Server | Backup server maintenance]]<br />
| Thibaut, Manuel <br />
| MB<br />
| Manuel's role is to check that system works<br />
|-<br />
| [http://majorana.ulb.ac.be Cluster] maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Federico, Alberto<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Laser_Cutter | Laser Cutter]]<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| CAD Workstation<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 3D Printer<br />
| Dhananjay, Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Photo_Video | Photo-Video]]<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Dhananjay<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Muriel<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Leslie, Aurélien<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Websites of completed projects and previous members<br />
| Rehan<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website and mailing list<br />
| Leonardo, Leslie<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics mailing list<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alberto<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and editorial activities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| AAAI 2015 Video Competition<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2016<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Matheuristics 2016<br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco -> Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MB<br />
| Maintenance of website/database + techrep covers for non-latex users. Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ARGoS<br />
| Carlo, Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Tracking System]]<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
| E-puck hardware / Argos<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Gripper hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Kilobot electronic carpet<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Aurélien<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO + PSO<br />
| Leslie, Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Lorenzo, Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop ARGoS<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=7164
Lab responsibilities
2015-09-25T12:46:17Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Organization of conferences and editorial activities */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Lorenzo, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Backup_Server | Backup server maintenance]]<br />
| Thibaut, Manuel <br />
| MB<br />
| Manuel's role is to check that system works<br />
|-<br />
| [http://majorana.ulb.ac.be Cluster] maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Federico, Alberto<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Laser_Cutter | Laser Cutter]]<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| CAD Workstation<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| 3D Printer<br />
| Dhananjay, Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Photo_Video | Photo-Video]]<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Dhananjay<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Muriel<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Leslie, Aurélien<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Websites of completed projects and previous members<br />
| Rehan<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website and mailing list<br />
| Leonardo, Leslie<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics mailing list<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alberto<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and editorial activities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| AAAI 2015 Video Competition<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2016<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Matheuristics 2016<br />
| Alberto, Federico, Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco -> Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MB<br />
| Maintenance of website/database + techrep covers for non-latex users. Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ARGoS<br />
| Carlo, Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Tracking System]]<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
| E-puck hardware / Argos<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Gripper hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Kilobot electronic carpet<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Aurélien<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| ???<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO + PSO<br />
| Leslie, Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Lorenzo, Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop ARGoS<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=6544
Lab responsibilities
2013-11-08T10:34:04Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Gaetan<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Lorenzo, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Backup server maintenance<br />
| Roman, ??? <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Cluster maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Manuele<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin, Roman<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Laser Cutter<br />
| Anthony<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Photo_Video | Photo-Video]]<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Vito<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Maintenance websites of completed projects<br />
| Carlo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|Swarmanoid wiki-page<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website maintenance<br />
| Leonardo, Leslie<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Leslie, Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Leslie, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics mailing list<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Gianpiero, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and events=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2012<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to applicants <br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie, Dhananjay<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Leslie, Dhananjay<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Technicals)<br />
| Sabrina, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| Set up seminar room<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Punctuality)<br />
| Vito, Manuel<br />
| TS<br />
| Make sure seminars start on time<br />
|-<br />
| Admin meeting<br />
| Michele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Gabriele, Leonardo<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Techrep covers (for non-latex users)<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Lorenzo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Swarmanoid simulator<br />
| Carlo, Lorenzo<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| E-puck hardware<br />
| Gianpiero, Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Eye-bot and Hand-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Tracking System<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Romain, Gaetan(Jun 2012)<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: PSO<br />
| Vito<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Carlo, Manuele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=6087
Lab responsibilities
2012-07-05T10:11:25Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Giovanni <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Alessandro, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Backup server maintenance<br />
| Eliseo <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Cluster maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Manuele<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin, Roman<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Photo-Video<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Vito<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Maintenance websites of completed projects<br />
| Carlo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|Swarmanoid wiki-page<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website maintenance<br />
| Leonardo, Tianjun<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Leslie, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Tianjun, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alessandro, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and events=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2012<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to applicants <br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie, Dhananjay<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Leslie, Dhananjay<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Technicals)<br />
| Sabrina, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| Set up seminar room<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Punctuality)<br />
| Vito, Manuel<br />
| TS<br />
| Make sure seminars start on time<br />
|-<br />
| Admin meeting<br />
| Michele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Gabriele, Leonardo<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Techrep covers (for non-latex users)<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Eliseo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Swarmanoid simulator<br />
| Carlo, Gabriele<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| E-puck hardware<br />
| Gianpiero, Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Andreagiovanni, Giovanni<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Eye-bot and Hand-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Gianpiero<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Tracking System<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Romain, Gaetan(Jun 2012)<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: PSO<br />
| Vito<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Carlo, Manuele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=6086
Lab responsibilities
2012-07-05T10:08:34Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Giovanni <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Alessandro, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Backup server maintenance<br />
| Eliseo <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Cluster maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Manuele<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin, Roman<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Photo-Video<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Vito<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Maintenance websites of completed projects<br />
| Carlo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|Swarmanoid wiki-page<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website maintenance<br />
| Romain, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Leslie, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Tianjun, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alessandro, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and events=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2012<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to applicants <br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie, Dhananjay<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Leslie, Dhananjay<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Technicals)<br />
| Sabrina, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| Set up seminar room<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Punctuality)<br />
| Vito, Manuel<br />
| TS<br />
| Make sure seminars start on time<br />
|-<br />
| Admin meeting<br />
| Michele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Gabriele, Leonardo<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Techrep covers (for non-latex users)<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Eliseo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Swarmanoid simulator<br />
| Carlo, Gabriele<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| E-puck hardware<br />
| Gianpiero, Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Andreagiovanni, Giovanni<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Eye-bot and Hand-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Gianpiero<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Tracking System<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Romain, Gaetan(Jun 2012)<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: PSO<br />
| Vito<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Carlo, Manuele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=6085
Lab responsibilities
2012-07-05T09:10:45Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Giovanni <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Alessandro, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Backup server maintenance<br />
| Eliseo <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Cluster maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Manuele<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin, Roman<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Photo-Video<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Vito<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Leslie<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Maintenance websites of completed projects<br />
| Carlo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|Swarmanoid wiki-page<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website maintenance<br />
| Romain, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Leslie, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Tianjun, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alessandro, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and events=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2012<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to applicants <br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie, Dhananjay<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Leslie, Dhananjay<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Technicals)<br />
| Sabrina, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| Set up seminar room<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Punctuality)<br />
| Vito, Manuel<br />
| TS<br />
| Make sure seminars start on time<br />
|-<br />
| Admin meeting<br />
| Michele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA_Technical_reports|IRIDIA Technical Reports]]<br />
| Gabriele, Romain<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Techrep covers (for non-latex users)<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Eliseo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Swarmanoid simulator<br />
| Carlo, Gabriele<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| E-puck hardware<br />
| Gianpiero, Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Andreagiovanni, Giovanni<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Eye-bot and Hand-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Gianpiero<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Tracking System<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Romain, Gaetan(Jun 2012)<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: PSO<br />
| Vito<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Carlo, Manuele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=5996
Lab responsibilities
2012-04-06T09:55:30Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists */</p>
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<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Giovanni <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Alessandro, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Backup server maintenance<br />
| Eliseo <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Cluster maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Manuele<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin, Roman<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Photo-Video<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Vito<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Romain<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Maintenance websites of completed projects<br />
| Carlo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|Swarmanoid wiki-page<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website maintenance<br />
| Romain, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Leslie, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Tianjun, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alessandro, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and events=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2012<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to applicants <br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | IRIDIA Seminars ]]<br />
| Leslie, Dhananjay<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| [[IRIDIA Seminars | Seminar Room Booking ]] <br />
| Leslie, Dhananjay<br />
| TS<br />
| Write to seminars-owner@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Technicals)<br />
| Sabrina, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| Set up seminar room<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Punctuality)<br />
| Vito, Manuel<br />
| TS<br />
| Make sure seminars start on time<br />
|-<br />
| Admin meeting<br />
| Michele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA Techreps<br />
| Gabriele, Romain<br />
| MB<br />
| Write to techrep@iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
| Techrep covers (for non-latex users)<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Eliseo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Swarmanoid simulator<br />
| Carlo, Gabriele<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| E-puck hardware<br />
| Gianpiero, Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Andreagiovanni, Giovanni<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Eye-bot and Hand-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Gianpiero<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Tracking System<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Romain, Gaetan(Jun 2012)<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: PSO<br />
| Vito<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Carlo, Manuele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=5957
Main Page
2012-03-08T22:35:13Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Optimization */</p>
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* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]] <br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Information for students]] <br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful informations]] (menu, pizza, etc...)<br />
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* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]] (S-Bots, E-pucks, Software, Links)<br />
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* [[#anc2_2 | Optimization]] (Links)<br />
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* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]]<br />
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* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars IRIDIA seminars]<br />
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* [[#anc2_3 | Publications]] (how to publish IRIDIA reports, digital libraries)<br />
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* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc.)<br />
* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc.)<br />
* [[#material | Diverse material]] (Logos, graphic material, proceedings, etc.)<br />
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== Adding information ==<br />
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A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed .<br />
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== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
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* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
** [[Allocations de chomage]] - Allocations de chomage.<br />
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* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[What you need to begin to work in IRIDIA]] - Resources to activate to work at IRIDIA.<br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for new students coming to IRIDIA.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Equivalence]] - Step by step explanations to request an equivalence of diplomas from Belgium.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
** [[Insurance while travelling abroad]] - ULB's insurance<br />
** [https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ IRIDIA mailing lists]<br />
** [[ECTS formation doctorale]] - a description of what you can use as ECTS for your DEA/formation doctorale<br />
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* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
** [http://www.snack44.net/ Snack 44] Menu for sandwich bar dans l'avenue de l'Université<br />
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* <div id="lab_responsibilities">'''Lab responsibilities'''</div><br />
** [[Lab responsibilities]] - list of labs responsibilities/tasks and who takes care of them.<br />
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== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
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* [[Robots | Main page for robots at IRIDIA]] - List of robots, technical information, how to access<br />
* [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve arena time<br />
* [[E-Pucks]] - All the information on how to use the e-pucks are here<br />
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* '''Software'''<br />
** [[ffmpeg | Using ffmpeg]] - Some examples on how to convert a set of frames to a video<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ ECCO]<br />
* '''Multi-objective Algorithms Software'''<br />
** [http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/sop/pisa/ ETH - SOP - PISA]<br />
** [http://paradiseo.gforge.inria.fr/index.php?n=Main.MOEO ParadisEO-MOEO]<br />
** [http://shark-project.sourceforge.net/MOO-EALib/index.html Shark - MOO-EAlib]<br />
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* '''Metaheuristics'''<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org Ant Colony Optimization]<br />
** [http://iew3.technion.ac.il/CE/about.php Cross Entropy Method]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.research.att.com/~mgcr/grasp/gannbib/gannbib.html GRASP]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ Tabu Search]<br />
* '''OR Software'''<br />
** [http://code.google.com/p/or-tools/ OR-Tools by Google]<br />
** [http://scip.zib.de/ SCIP]<br />
* '''Projects'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network]<br />
* '''Applications'''<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
** [http://www.tsp.gatech.edu/ TSP]<br />
** [http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/comopt/software/TSPLIB95/ TSPLIB95] - A Traveling Salesman Problem Library<br />
** [http://www.seas.upenn.edu/qaplib/ QAPLIB] - A Quadratic Assignment Problem Library<br />
** [http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/info.html OR-Library]<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~manuel/tsptw-instances Benchmark Instances for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Time Windows (TSPTW)]<br />
** [[Concorde]]<br />
* '''Experimental Analysis and Statistics'''<br />
** [http://www.r-project.org/ R project]<br />
** [[Tutorials_and_links_about_C%2C_R%2C_LateX_and_bash_(unix)#R | Tutorials and links about R]]<br />
** [http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html Electronic Statistics Textbook. StatSoft, Inc. (2006)]<br />
** [http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/ NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods]<br />
**[http://www.keithbower.com/datasets/Audio%20Recordings.htm Videos on Statistical Concepts]<br />
* '''Software Development'''<br />
** [http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools] - Suggested compiler<br />
** [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU Coding Standards] - Suggested coding style guidelines<br />
** [http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ GSL] - GNU Scientific Library<br />
** [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] - Suggested version control tool (see the page on the IRIDIA [[Development Server]] how to use it inside the lab)<br />
** [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] - Suggested documentation tool for source code<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== Generic Tutorials and Links ===<br />
* [[Tutorials and links about C, R, LateX and bash (unix)]]<br />
<br />
=== Neural Networks ===<br />
* [[Neural Network Tutorials]]<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
<br />
* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Iridia Supplementary Information Instructions page]] - Information on HOW TO use the Iridia Supplementary Information page.<br />
* [[Write Better English]] - Basic pointers on how to raise the level of english in your paper.<br />
* [[Embed Fonts in your PDFs]] - A guide on how to embed fonts on your PDFs for submission to conferences.<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==<br />
<br />
* [[Infrastructure]] - Generalities, meetings, TODOS, etc.<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div> ===<br />
* [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
* [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
* [[Development Server]] - How to use the IRIDIA development server and how to use subversion repositories<br />
* IRIDIA Cluster: See the [http://majorana.ulb.ac.be/wordpress/ Cluster Website] for usage information, tips and updates.<br />
* [[Using the IRIDIA Experimental room]] - All you need to know to easily run real experiments.<br />
* [[Workshop]] - Everything you wanted to know about the workshop but were afraid to ask<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc3_2">'''Software'''</div> ===<br />
* [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
* See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
* Suggested software for [[Workstation_configuration#For_Mac_OS_X_users | Mac OS X]] users<br />
* List of [[Available_commercial_software | commercial software]] we have in IRIDIA<br />
* Howto create a [[howto_create_new_svn_repos | new svn repository ]] on the iridia server<br />
* Tune your algorithm on the [[Tuning_your_algorithm_with_irace_on_the_IRIDIA_cluster|IRIDIA cluster with irace]]<br />
<br />
=== <div id="material">'''Diverse Material'''</div> ===<br />
* [[Logos]]<br />
* [https://iridia-dev.ulb.ac.be/projects/material/svn SVN repository of graphical material] (for access see [[Development Server]])<br />
* [[ProceedingsRepository| Repository of Proceedings]]<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=5878
Lab responsibilities
2012-02-20T15:31:40Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Giovanni <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Alessandro, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Backup server maintenance<br />
| Eliseo <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Cluster maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Manuele<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Leonardo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin, Roman<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Photo-Video<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Vito<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Romain<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Maintenance websites of completed projects<br />
| Carlo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|Swarmanoid wiki-page<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website maintenance<br />
| Romain, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Mircea, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Tianjun, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alessandro, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and events=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2012<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to applicants <br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA Seminars <br />
| Gabriele, Dhananjay<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Seminar Room Booking <br />
| Gabriele, Dhananjay<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Technicals)<br />
| Sabrina, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| Set up seminar room<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Punctuality)<br />
| Vito, Manuel<br />
| TS<br />
| Make sure seminars start on time<br />
|-<br />
| Admin meeting<br />
| Michele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA Techreps<br />
| Gabriele, Romain<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Techrep covers (for non-latex users)<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Eliseo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Swarmanoid simulator<br />
| Carlo, Gabriele<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| E-puck hardware<br />
| Gianpiero, Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Andreagiovanni, Giovanni<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Eye-bot and Hand-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Gianpiero<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Tracking System<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Romain, Gaetan(Jun 2012)<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| Roman<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: PSO<br />
| Vito<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Carlo, Manuele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=5843
Lab responsibilities
2012-02-14T14:35:03Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Giovanni <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Alessandro, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Backup server maintenance<br />
| Eliseo <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Cluster maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Manuele<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin, Roman<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Photo-Video<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Vito<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Roman<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Maintenance websites of completed projects<br />
| Carlo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|Swarmanoid wiki-page<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website maintenance<br />
| Romain, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Mircea<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Tianjun, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alessandro, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and events=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2012<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to applicants <br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA Seminars <br />
| Gabriele, Dhananjay<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Seminar Room Booking <br />
| Gabriele, Dhananjay<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Technicals)<br />
| Sabrina, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| Set up seminar room<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Punctuality)<br />
| Vito, Manuel<br />
| TS<br />
| Make sure seminars start on time<br />
|-<br />
| Admin meeting<br />
| Michele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA Techreps<br />
| Gabriele, Romain<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Techrep covers (for non-latex users)<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Eliseo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Swarmanoid simulator<br />
| Carlo, Gabriele<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| E-puck hardware<br />
| Gianpiero, Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Andreagiovanni, Giovanni<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Eye-bot and Hand-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Gianpiero<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Tracking System<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Romain, Gaetan(Jun 2012)<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| Romain<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: PSO<br />
| Vito<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Carlo, Manuele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Romain<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=5842
Lab responsibilities
2012-02-14T14:34:48Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Servers, infrastructures, and assets */</p>
<hr />
<div>MD = Marco Dorigo, TS = Thomas Stützle, MB = Mauro Birattari<br />
=Servers, infrastructures, and assets=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server maintenance<br />
| Giovanni <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Development_Server | Development server maintenance]]<br />
| Alessandro, Manuel<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Backup server maintenance<br />
| Eliseo <br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Cluster maintenance<br />
| Jérémie, Manuele<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wireless network<br />
| Nithin, Roman<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Printers, scanner, fax<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Workshop<br />
| Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Photo-Video<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Management Coffee Room<br />
| Vito<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Reading material in Coffee Room<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X support and Muriel's Mac<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Web sites, wiki pages, and mailing lists=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Web pages (CoDE/IRIDIA) <br />
| Dhananjay, Romain<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Databases<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Maintenance websites of completed projects<br />
| Carlo<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|Swarmanoid wiki-page<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website maintenance<br />
| Romain, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA mailing lists<br />
| Mircea<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Tianjun, Leonardo<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Wiki support <br />
| Alessandro, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Organization of conferences and events=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ANTS 2012<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Support to new members and visitors=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to visitors and new members<br />
| Franco<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Assistance to applicants <br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Seminars and meetings=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA Seminars <br />
| Gabriele, Dhananjay<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Seminar Room Booking <br />
| Gabriele, Dhananjay<br />
| TS<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Technicals)<br />
| Sabrina, Tianjun<br />
| TS<br />
| Set up seminar room<br />
|-<br />
| Seminars (Punctuality)<br />
| Vito, Manuel<br />
| TS<br />
| Make sure seminars start on time<br />
|-<br />
| Admin meeting<br />
| Michele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics meeting<br />
| Vito<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Optimization Group Meetings | Optimization meetings ]]<br />
| Manuel<br />
| TS <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Library, technical reports, and supplementary pages=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisor<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA Techreps<br />
| Gabriele, Romain<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Techrep covers (for non-latex users)<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| [[Iridia_Supplementary_Information_Instructions_page|Supplementary pages]]<br />
| Eliseo<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Robotics: hardware and software=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Swarmanoid simulator<br />
| Carlo, Gabriele<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| E-puck hardware<br />
| Gianpiero, Manuele<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Foot-bot hardware<br />
| Andreagiovanni, Giovanni<br />
| MB <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Eye-bot and Hand-bot hardware<br />
| Nithin<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Robotics Lab<br />
| Gianpiero<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Tracking System<br />
| Alessandro<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|- <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Didactics=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Supervisors<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision of Master students<br />
| As needed<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Supervision TRAN-H-201<br />
| Romain, Gaetan(Jun 2012)<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Admin PROJ-H-402<br />
| Romain<br />
| MB<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: ACO<br />
| Eric, Sabrina<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: PSO<br />
| Vito<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| INFO-H-414: Swarm Robotics<br />
| Carlo, Manuele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| iThenticate - SI<br />
| Gabriele<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Proceedings repository<br />
| Romain<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Dorigo's Web pages<br />
| Andreagiovanni<br />
| MD<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Workstation_configuration&diff=5812
Workstation configuration
2012-01-26T08:14:49Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Printer configuration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Network configuration ==<br />
You should get a static IP from the system administrator. Your hostname will be the name of a famous scientist and the domain is ulb.ac.be. Other relevant addresses are:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Description<br />
! IP address<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gateway<br />
|<br />
164.15.10.254<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
DNS1<br />
|<br />
164.15.59.200<br />
|}<br />
<br />
You might also need to add the following data, althoug many systems set it automatically:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!Description<br />
!Value<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Network<br />
|<br />
164.15.10.0<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Netmask<br />
|<br />
255.255.255.0<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Broadcast<br />
|<br />
164.15.10.255<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Wi-Fi network configuration ===<br />
At IRIDIA lab there are two wireless networks. To join any of them you should get the password from the system administrator. Relevant configuration data are:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
! Description !! Value<br />
|- <br />
|| Network name || Hashmal<br />
|- <br />
|| Radio mode || 802.11b/g Compatible<br />
|-<br />
|| Channel || 4<br />
|-<br />
|| Wireless Security Mode || 128bit WEP/WPA/WPA2<br />
|- <br />
|| DNS Server || 164.15.59.200<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
! Description !! Value<br />
|- <br />
|| Network name || sbot<br />
|- <br />
|| Radio mode || 802.11b/g Compatible<br />
|-<br />
|| Channel || 6<br />
|-<br />
|| Wireless Security Mode || 128bit WEP<br />
|- <br />
|| DNS Server || 164.15.59.200<br />
|-<br />
|| Distributed IPs || IPs are provided through DHCP from iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Firewall configuration ==<br />
Since the computers are available through direct connections from internet you should protect your machine with a firewall.<br />
Linux provides an integrated mechanism for accepting or rejecting incoming packets. <br />
<br />
If you want to setup a good firewall quickly, you may use the following link :<br />
[http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/gen/ Firewall script generator]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''How to generate the firewall script ?'''<br />
<br />
<br />
Usually, the interface to internet is eth0. You can check your available interfaces<br />
by typing (as root) :<br />
<br />
''# ifconfig -a''<br />
<br />
Most of the time, you wish to have an access to the computer, but you still want it<br />
to be secure. The best is to disable any inbound service except SSH. The SSH connections<br />
are encrypted so that you can safely access to the computer even if someone is tcpdumping<br />
your connection.<br />
<br />
For the moment, I don't know how to use the Fireparse format. If you know about it<br />
just use it. Otherwise you'll have to take a look at the logs (''/var/log/syslog'') to<br />
monitor the possible network problems or attacks.<br />
<br />
Now that you have all the necessary informations, you can generate the firewall script.<br />
Name this script ''iptables'', give it execution rights (''chmod u+x iptables'') and put it under the directory ''/etc/init.d/''. <br />
<br />
Be aware that the script loads some iptables modules in your kernel. If you have recompiled your kernel then you<br />
should ensure that the necessary modules are present. If you have statically linked the code to the kernel<br />
then you should remove the modprobe commands in the firewall's script.<br />
<br />
Now simply add a symbolic link in the runlevel 2 to this script by typing (as root) :<br />
<br />
''# ln -s /etc/init.d/iptables /etc/rc2.d/S12iptables''<br />
<br />
<br />
You should adapt the number 12 to your needs. The firewall must be run as early as possible. <br />
For example if telnet services are run before it, an attack is still possible. Be careful about this.<br />
<br />
If you want to understand more deeply iptables, you can check the following URLs :<br />
<br />
[http://www.netfilter.org/ Iptables official website]<br />
<br />
[http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html Iptables tutorial and explanations]<br />
<br />
[http://lea-linux.org/reseau/iptables.html Setting up a firewall using iptables (in french)]<br />
<br />
== Printer configuration ==<br />
<br />
<br />
All three printers at IRIDIA (see table "General Information") can be installed as "network printers" on your operating system ([https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/printing/C/printing.html#network Ubuntu 8.10], [http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8670.html Mac OS X], [http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/WinXP/printing.html Windows XP]). On *nix-like systems (should work also Mac OS X but if you have problems read next paragraph), the most convenient option is to install the printers using the '''LPD/LPR printing protocol''' and the drivers provided in the table below. These drivers also support some additional (hardware) features installed on the printers as listed in the table "Installable Options". On Windows XP, please install the driver '''before''' setting up a network printer. If asked to specify a "QUEUE", leave it in blank or use the value "raw_queue". The paper size should be set to A4, otherwise printers may get blocked. If you have difficulties, please contact the printers administrator (currently [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/ Nithin Mathews]). <br />
<br />
On some Mac (e.g. MacBook with Mac Os X 10.5.6) you could have problems printing in duplex mode (double side) with the Ricoh printers (Gutenberg should be fine). When you add the two printers the system will use the default postscript drivers that do not support duplex mode. Installing the suggested unix drivers does not help. The best solution is to go to the links listed under "Windows / Mac" in the table "Driver" and download the installer and install the proper driver.<br />
<br />
'''General Information'''<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Name<br />
! URL<br />
! Model<br />
! Location<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gutenberg<br />
|<br />
gutenberg.ulb.ac.be<br />
|<br />
HP4100 PS<br />
|<br />
Office C.5.106A<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Meucci<br />
|<br />
meucci.ulb.ac.be<br />
|<br />
Ricoh Aficio MP 3350<br />
|<br />
Office C.5.106A<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Sabin<br />
|<br />
sabin.ulb.ac.be<br />
|<br />
Ricoh Aficio mp161 spf<br />
|<br />
Storage room<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Drivers'''<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Name<br />
! *nix<br />
! Windows / Mac<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gutenberg<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/HP_LaserJet_4100_Series.ppd HP_LaserJet_4100_Series.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?pnameOID=29118&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=83436&cc=us HP LaserJet 4100 Printer series]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Meucci<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/Ricoh-Aficio_MP_3350_PXL.ppd Ricoh-Aficio_MP_3350_PXL.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/downloads.asp?tsn=Ricoh-USA&path=http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc2/model/mp33/mp33en.htm PCL 6 Driver]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Sabin<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/Ricoh-Aficio_MP_161_PXL.ppd Ricoh-Aficio_MP_161_PXL.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/downloads.asp?tsn=Ricoh-USA&path=http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc2/model/mp161/mp161en.htm PCL 6 Driver]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Installable Options'''<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Name<br />
! Options<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gutenberg<br />
|<br />
* Tray 3: Installed<br />
* Duplex Unit: Installed<br />
* Printer Hard Disk: Ram Disk<br />
* Total Memory: 32 - 63MB<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Meucci<br />
|<br />
* Bypass Tray: Installed<br />
* Optional Tray: Lower Paper Trays<br />
* Upper Internal Tray: Installed<br />
* Finisher: SR790<br />
* Duplex Unit: Installed<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Sabin<br />
|<br />
* Lower Paper Tray: Installed<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Ubuntu 9.10 Instructions'''<br />
<br />
* System->Administration->Printing<br />
* New<br />
* Network Printer URL: socket://meucci.ulb.ac.be:9100<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Windows XP Instructions'''<br />
<br />
* Download Drivers based on model number from http://www.ricoh-support.com<br />
** Expand into folder somewhere (e.g. on Desktop)<br />
* Control Panel -> Printers -> Add New Printer<br />
* Local Printer -> Create new TCP/IP port<br />
** Make sure outgoing network ports SNMP (161) and 9100 are open<br />
** Port IP: meucci.ulb.ac.be Port Name: meucci<br />
* Select Have Disk in Printer Driver Screen<br />
** Navigate to Expanded folder downloaded with drivers<br />
** Select OEM.. file. (Only one to show up)<br />
<br />
== The IRIDIA and the ULB network ==<br />
The IRIDIA system administrator can create an account on the local subnet for you, however, if you want to have access to some of the computer services of the university, you'll need an account on the university network as well. Ask the secretary for the forms and the process. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Mail configuration ==<br />
Assuming that you have an account on both the local and the university network the mail settings are as follows:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Service<br />
! URL<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
SMTP<br />
|<br />
smtp.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Iridia POP<br />
|<br />
iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Iridia IMAP<br />
|<br />
iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
ULB POP<br />
|<br />
pop.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
ULB IMAP<br />
|<br />
pop.ulb.ac.be<br />
|}<br />
<br />
The SMTP server does not require authentication. The POP and IMAP services of ULB accept unsecure connections (no SSL). The POP and IMAP servers of Iridia require secure connections (with SSL).<br />
<br />
There are also web interfaces available to read the email if you can not connect to the above servers via POP or IMAP:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!SERVER<br />
!URL<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
ULB<br />
|<br />
[https://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/webmail2/webmail.php https://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/webmail2/webmail.php]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
IRIDIA<br />
|<br />
[https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/squirrelmail/ https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/squirrelmail/]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
[[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== For Mac OS X users ==<br />
In order to help Mac OS X users staying updated for what concerne security issues with their systems we suggest to subscribe to the following mailing list:<br />
<br />
[http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce Security-announce -- product security notifications and announcements from Apple]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Mac OS X Software to setup your research environment ===<br />
Here you can find a list of softwares that you might want to check out:<br />
<br />
* LaTeX & BibTeX<br />
[http://www.tug.org/mactex/ MacTeX.dmg package] - Easy-to-Install Package, which contains a complete and up to date TeX system from Gerben Weirda's gwTeX redistribution;<br />
Free<br />
<br />
[http://macromates.com/ Textmate] - editor (and much more); Commercial<br />
<br />
[http://www2.ing.unipi.it/~d9615/homepage/texniscope.html TeXniscope] - DVI/PDF previewer <br />
(synchronization with external editors (e.g. Emacs) both for DVI/PDF files); Free, sources available<br />
<br />
<br />
* Statistical analysis<br />
[http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/bin/macosx/ R.app] - Cocoa-based GUI for R; Free, GPL<br />
<br />
<br />
* Secure Shell<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ MacFUSE] - a FUSE-Compliant File System Implementation Mechanism; <br />
Free, BSD-licence<br />
<br />
[http://www.macfusionapp.org/ MacFusion] - a GUI for MacFUSE; <br />
Free, APSL-licence<br />
<br />
<br />
* Version Control System<br />
[http://media.clickablebliss.com/screencasts/intro_to_subversion_small.mov (QuickTime movie with introduction to Subversion)]<br />
<br />
[http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/svnx/ svnX] - a GUI for Subversion; Free, GPL<br />
<br />
[http://www.versionsapp.com/ Versions] - Mac Subversion client; Commercial<br />
<br />
===Project management on Mac OS X===<br />
[http://www.merlin2.net/ Merlin 2]<br />
Commercial<br />
([http://www.macresearch.org/review_merlin_2 Review of the program by MacResearch.org])</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Workstation_configuration&diff=5811
Workstation configuration
2012-01-26T08:13:59Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Printer configuration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Network configuration ==<br />
You should get a static IP from the system administrator. Your hostname will be the name of a famous scientist and the domain is ulb.ac.be. Other relevant addresses are:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Description<br />
! IP address<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gateway<br />
|<br />
164.15.10.254<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
DNS1<br />
|<br />
164.15.59.200<br />
|}<br />
<br />
You might also need to add the following data, althoug many systems set it automatically:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!Description<br />
!Value<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Network<br />
|<br />
164.15.10.0<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Netmask<br />
|<br />
255.255.255.0<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Broadcast<br />
|<br />
164.15.10.255<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Wi-Fi network configuration ===<br />
At IRIDIA lab there are two wireless networks. To join any of them you should get the password from the system administrator. Relevant configuration data are:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
! Description !! Value<br />
|- <br />
|| Network name || Hashmal<br />
|- <br />
|| Radio mode || 802.11b/g Compatible<br />
|-<br />
|| Channel || 4<br />
|-<br />
|| Wireless Security Mode || 128bit WEP/WPA/WPA2<br />
|- <br />
|| DNS Server || 164.15.59.200<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
! Description !! Value<br />
|- <br />
|| Network name || sbot<br />
|- <br />
|| Radio mode || 802.11b/g Compatible<br />
|-<br />
|| Channel || 6<br />
|-<br />
|| Wireless Security Mode || 128bit WEP<br />
|- <br />
|| DNS Server || 164.15.59.200<br />
|-<br />
|| Distributed IPs || IPs are provided through DHCP from iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Firewall configuration ==<br />
Since the computers are available through direct connections from internet you should protect your machine with a firewall.<br />
Linux provides an integrated mechanism for accepting or rejecting incoming packets. <br />
<br />
If you want to setup a good firewall quickly, you may use the following link :<br />
[http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/gen/ Firewall script generator]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''How to generate the firewall script ?'''<br />
<br />
<br />
Usually, the interface to internet is eth0. You can check your available interfaces<br />
by typing (as root) :<br />
<br />
''# ifconfig -a''<br />
<br />
Most of the time, you wish to have an access to the computer, but you still want it<br />
to be secure. The best is to disable any inbound service except SSH. The SSH connections<br />
are encrypted so that you can safely access to the computer even if someone is tcpdumping<br />
your connection.<br />
<br />
For the moment, I don't know how to use the Fireparse format. If you know about it<br />
just use it. Otherwise you'll have to take a look at the logs (''/var/log/syslog'') to<br />
monitor the possible network problems or attacks.<br />
<br />
Now that you have all the necessary informations, you can generate the firewall script.<br />
Name this script ''iptables'', give it execution rights (''chmod u+x iptables'') and put it under the directory ''/etc/init.d/''. <br />
<br />
Be aware that the script loads some iptables modules in your kernel. If you have recompiled your kernel then you<br />
should ensure that the necessary modules are present. If you have statically linked the code to the kernel<br />
then you should remove the modprobe commands in the firewall's script.<br />
<br />
Now simply add a symbolic link in the runlevel 2 to this script by typing (as root) :<br />
<br />
''# ln -s /etc/init.d/iptables /etc/rc2.d/S12iptables''<br />
<br />
<br />
You should adapt the number 12 to your needs. The firewall must be run as early as possible. <br />
For example if telnet services are run before it, an attack is still possible. Be careful about this.<br />
<br />
If you want to understand more deeply iptables, you can check the following URLs :<br />
<br />
[http://www.netfilter.org/ Iptables official website]<br />
<br />
[http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html Iptables tutorial and explanations]<br />
<br />
[http://lea-linux.org/reseau/iptables.html Setting up a firewall using iptables (in french)]<br />
<br />
== Printer configuration ==<br />
<br />
<br />
All three printers at IRIDIA (see table "General Information") can be installed as "network printers" on your operating system ([https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/printing/C/printing.html#network Ubuntu 8.10], [http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8670.html Mac OS X], [http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/WinXP/printing.html Windows XP]). On *nix-like systems (should work also Mac OS X but if you have problems read next paragraph), the most convenient option is to install the printers using the '''LPD/LPR printing protocol''' and the drivers provided in the table below. These drivers also support some additional (hardware) features installed on the printers as listed in the table "Installable Options". On Windows XP, please install the driver '''before''' setting up a network printer. If asked to specify a "QUEUE", leave it in blank or use the value "raw_queue". The paper size should be set to A4, otherwise printers may get blocked. If you have difficulties, please contact the printers administrator (currently [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/ Nithin Mathews]). <br />
<br />
On some Mac (e.g. MacBook with Mac Os X 10.5.6) you could have problems printing in duplex mode (double side) with the Ricoh printers (Gutenberg should be fine). When you add the two printers the system will use the default postscript drivers that do not support duplex mode. Installing the suggested unix drivers does not help. The best solution is to go to the links listed under "Windows / Mac" in the table "Driver" and download the installer and install the proper driver.<br />
<br />
'''General Information'''<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Name<br />
! URL<br />
! Model<br />
! Location<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gutenberg<br />
|<br />
gutenberg.ulb.ac.be<br />
|<br />
HP4100 PS<br />
|<br />
Office C.5.106A<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Meucci<br />
|<br />
meucci.ulb.ac.be<br />
|<br />
Ricoh Aficio MP 3350<br />
|<br />
Office C.5.106A<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Sabin<br />
|<br />
sabin.ulb.ac.be<br />
|<br />
Ricoh Aficio mp161 spf<br />
|<br />
Storage room<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Drivers'''<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Name<br />
! *nix<br />
! Windows / Mac<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gutenberg<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/HP_LaserJet_4100_Series.ppd HP_LaserJet_4100_Series.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?pnameOID=29118&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=83436&cc=us HP LaserJet 4100 Printer series]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Meucci<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/Ricoh-Aficio_MP_3350_PXL.ppd Ricoh-Aficio_MP_3350_PXL.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/downloads.asp?tsn=Ricoh-USA&path=http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc2/model/mp33/mp33en.htm PCL 6 Driver]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Torricelli<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/Ricoh-Aficio_1027_PXL.ppd Ricoh-Aficio_1027_PXL.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[TODO]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Sabin<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/Ricoh-Aficio_MP_161_PXL.ppd Ricoh-Aficio_MP_161_PXL.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/downloads.asp?tsn=Ricoh-USA&path=http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc2/model/mp161/mp161en.htm PCL 6 Driver]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Installable Options'''<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Name<br />
! Options<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gutenberg<br />
|<br />
* Tray 3: Installed<br />
* Duplex Unit: Installed<br />
* Printer Hard Disk: Ram Disk<br />
* Total Memory: 32 - 63MB<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Meucci<br />
|<br />
* Bypass Tray: Installed<br />
* Optional Tray: Lower Paper Trays<br />
* Upper Internal Tray: Installed<br />
* Finisher: SR790<br />
* Duplex Unit: Installed<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Sabin<br />
|<br />
* Lower Paper Tray: Installed<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Ubuntu 9.10 Instructions'''<br />
<br />
* System->Administration->Printing<br />
* New<br />
* Network Printer URL: socket://meucci.ulb.ac.be:9100<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Windows XP Instructions'''<br />
<br />
* Download Drivers based on model number from http://www.ricoh-support.com<br />
** Expand into folder somewhere (e.g. on Desktop)<br />
* Control Panel -> Printers -> Add New Printer<br />
* Local Printer -> Create new TCP/IP port<br />
** Make sure outgoing network ports SNMP (161) and 9100 are open<br />
** Port IP: meucci.ulb.ac.be Port Name: meucci<br />
* Select Have Disk in Printer Driver Screen<br />
** Navigate to Expanded folder downloaded with drivers<br />
** Select OEM.. file. (Only one to show up)<br />
<br />
== The IRIDIA and the ULB network ==<br />
The IRIDIA system administrator can create an account on the local subnet for you, however, if you want to have access to some of the computer services of the university, you'll need an account on the university network as well. Ask the secretary for the forms and the process. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Mail configuration ==<br />
Assuming that you have an account on both the local and the university network the mail settings are as follows:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Service<br />
! URL<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
SMTP<br />
|<br />
smtp.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Iridia POP<br />
|<br />
iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Iridia IMAP<br />
|<br />
iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
ULB POP<br />
|<br />
pop.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
ULB IMAP<br />
|<br />
pop.ulb.ac.be<br />
|}<br />
<br />
The SMTP server does not require authentication. The POP and IMAP services of ULB accept unsecure connections (no SSL). The POP and IMAP servers of Iridia require secure connections (with SSL).<br />
<br />
There are also web interfaces available to read the email if you can not connect to the above servers via POP or IMAP:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!SERVER<br />
!URL<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
ULB<br />
|<br />
[https://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/webmail2/webmail.php https://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/webmail2/webmail.php]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
IRIDIA<br />
|<br />
[https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/squirrelmail/ https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/squirrelmail/]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
[[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== For Mac OS X users ==<br />
In order to help Mac OS X users staying updated for what concerne security issues with their systems we suggest to subscribe to the following mailing list:<br />
<br />
[http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce Security-announce -- product security notifications and announcements from Apple]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Mac OS X Software to setup your research environment ===<br />
Here you can find a list of softwares that you might want to check out:<br />
<br />
* LaTeX & BibTeX<br />
[http://www.tug.org/mactex/ MacTeX.dmg package] - Easy-to-Install Package, which contains a complete and up to date TeX system from Gerben Weirda's gwTeX redistribution;<br />
Free<br />
<br />
[http://macromates.com/ Textmate] - editor (and much more); Commercial<br />
<br />
[http://www2.ing.unipi.it/~d9615/homepage/texniscope.html TeXniscope] - DVI/PDF previewer <br />
(synchronization with external editors (e.g. Emacs) both for DVI/PDF files); Free, sources available<br />
<br />
<br />
* Statistical analysis<br />
[http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/bin/macosx/ R.app] - Cocoa-based GUI for R; Free, GPL<br />
<br />
<br />
* Secure Shell<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ MacFUSE] - a FUSE-Compliant File System Implementation Mechanism; <br />
Free, BSD-licence<br />
<br />
[http://www.macfusionapp.org/ MacFusion] - a GUI for MacFUSE; <br />
Free, APSL-licence<br />
<br />
<br />
* Version Control System<br />
[http://media.clickablebliss.com/screencasts/intro_to_subversion_small.mov (QuickTime movie with introduction to Subversion)]<br />
<br />
[http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/svnx/ svnX] - a GUI for Subversion; Free, GPL<br />
<br />
[http://www.versionsapp.com/ Versions] - Mac Subversion client; Commercial<br />
<br />
===Project management on Mac OS X===<br />
[http://www.merlin2.net/ Merlin 2]<br />
Commercial<br />
([http://www.macresearch.org/review_merlin_2 Review of the program by MacResearch.org])</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Moving_to_Brussels&diff=5629
Moving to Brussels
2011-09-28T06:59:32Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
<hr />
<div>Moving to a new country can be both exciting and frustrating. Everything is fascinating and at the same time it can be confusing to find your way around a new city, a culture and possibly a new language. The objective of this page is to provide some information for newcomers to IRIDIA, such as Ph.D. students, and Brussels in general in order to make the initial couple of weeks a bit easier. The information contained in this document has been collected by people who have been through the process. If you have any questions, suggestions, additions or such, please make them.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Short-term accommodation ==<br />
<br />
For short-term accommodation (that is a place to sleep for the first couple of weeks you are in Brussels) a bed and breakfast is a convenient option. Depending on your budget and confidence in finding more long-term accommodation quickly there is a number of different options to choose from:<br />
<br />
* [http://www.csfds.be Centre Sportif de la Foret de Soignes] is a sports facility in the outskirts of Brussels. It is quite cheap for longer stays at ~230 euro/month or ~16 euros/day for shorter stays. There is easy access to the university: [http://www.stib.irisnet.be/FR/40000Fre/B/40072F.htm Bus number 72] runs directly between ULB and the center (also known as A.D.E.P.S.) and the ride is 15 to 20 mins. And that is about all the good things that there are to say about the place. Breakfast is not included, the rooms are very basic, the reception closes at 23h00 on weekdays, 22h00 on Saturdays and at 20h00 on Sundays. You either have to be there before closing time or you'll have to arranged with the Security staff or the reception, that you will come at a later hour. Being so far out is by no means an ideal way to get acquainted with the city. However, if you intend to stay in short-term for a whole month [http://www.csfds.be Centre Sportif de la Foret de Soignes] might be the least expensive option. If you want to book a room there you have to do it through IRIDIA.<br />
* [http://www.bnb-brussels.be Bed &amp; Brussels] manages rooms in more than 100 guesthouses. Have a look and contact them if you are interested. If you book a room make sure that it is close to the university (Ixelles 1050 or Uccle 1180). '''Hint:''' Go to [http://www.maporama.com Maporama] and punch in the address of the guest house to see how far it is from ULB.<br />
* [http://rycx.be/bedbreakfast/en/ Rycx's family house] The guest house at Square Robert Goldschmidt, 50 - B-1050 Brussels, Belgium] should be quite good, inexpensive and very close to the university. They only have few rooms.<br />
* [http://www.brusselsdestination.be/en/index.html Brussels Destination] offers rooms, flats, and studios for stays of 4 weeks or longer. At the moment of writing this, the map offered by the site is often incorrect, so be sure to check the address given using a different map.<br />
* [http://www.myapartmentinbrussels.com/index.html MyAppartmentInBrussels] offers appartments (from 1 to 3 bedrooms), houses and studios completly furnished in different parts of the city. They permit stays from lest than 1 month to more than 1 year.<br />
<br />
== Long-term accommodation ==<br />
In case you do not already live in Brussels, one of the first and most important things to do obviously is to find an apartment. One option is to buy the magazine "Vlan" where you have lots of ads for flats and etc. You can as well visit the [http://www.vlan.be Vlan website], which is very good and publishes the announcements shortly after they are published in the magazine. You can try out [http://www.immoweb.be IMMOWEB.be] on which apartments are also advertised. Another great website full of ads for apartments and furniture is [http://www.expatsinbrussels.com/ Expats in Brussel].<br />
<br />
An alternative method is to simply walk around in the neighborhood you are interested in living in as the landlords hang out easy identifiable announcements. As this might not be a usual way to find accommodation in other countries it works in Belgium. There are a lot of signs put up and sometimes this is the only way in which apartments are advertised. Walking around is probably a bit more time consuming than finding a flat through the Vlan, but on the other side you get to know the area, and you are likely to find one of the apartments close to the University not advertised on the web. The signs read "A Louer" or "Te Huur", which translates to "for rent". There are lots of rooms and apartments for rent. They vary a lot in terms of quality and price, so you might have to spend some time to find something that suites your budget and your style.<br />
<br />
Most other students at IRIDIA live quite close to the university; choosing a place in the neighborhood is likely to improve your social life.<br />
<br />
In case you don't speak any French it is recommendable to ask a French speaker (e.g. at IRIDIA) to check the contract. Even though the probability is low that some landlord wants to cheat, it is always better to know what exactly is written in the contract!<br />
<br />
=== Renting an apartment ===<br />
Once you have found the property you want to rent, you need a lease (bail/kontract), an inventory (etat des lieux/plaatsbeschrijving), a security deposit, and to get the phone, electricity and gas reconnected.<br />
<br />
There is an element of Catch 22 here - there is a certain order to get things done that, at times, seems to be mutually exclusive.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''The lease'''<br />
<br />
Belgium has an odd system of a standard nine-year flexible lease, and an inflexible three-year lease. At first sight the three-year lease seems the most attractive to a newcomer whose time in the country is uncertain, but this is not necessarily the case.<br />
<br />
A three-year lease can be for any agreed period up to a maximum of three years. It fixes the rent for the period of the lease and commits the tenant to pay for the entire period of the lease. It can include a diplomatic clause (designed to indemnify the tenant if he wants to break the lease because he is leaving the country) but these have been nullified by the Belgian Courts in the past.<br />
<br />
It is thus better to opt for a nine-year lease, which can in fact be broken by giving three months notice. But if you leave in the first, second or third year, you will pay an indemnity of three, two and one month's rent respectively. From year four, there is no penalty for leaving.<br />
<br />
The monthly rent is fixed for nine years subject to the normal state-controlled annual indexation. The landlord can only give you notice if they intend to occupy the property personally, need to carry out major works (where major has a legal definition), or at the end of year three or year six, for no reason but subject to compensation to the tenant of nine or six month's rent respectively.<br />
<br />
For an apartment, the monthly outgoing may include an element of rent and a fixed amount of service charge. Usually the service charge is just a prepayment (provision pour charges/vooruitbetaling) and there will be an annual assessment of common charges for the property that you will share in.<br />
<br />
If you want to negotiate a better price, negotiate down the rental not the service charges! If there are things you want the landlord to correct before you move in, don't sign the lease until they have happened.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''The inventory'''<br />
<br />
The inventory (etat des lieux /plaatsbeschrijvin) is the source of more misery to tenants than any other legal document.<br />
<br />
Typically, the landlord's agent prepares a stunningly detailed list of the condition of the property complete with photographs. The tenant reads it or not and signs. At the end of the lease, the landlord's agent checks the property and finds an unreasonable amount of property damage.<br />
<br />
Expats have been charged for scratches in the bath that were there before they arrived, and for damp patches caused by the landlord's failure to repair a roof. That the cost of the damage often comes to about the level of the retained security deposit is a coincidence of course!<br />
<br />
It is bad enough to have someone who seems to be less than independent assessing costs against you, even more irritating is that you have to pay 50 percent of his bill. Some agents insist you sign a document agreeing to the fee and to accept his expertise before he starts. Don't do so.<br />
<br />
The way to avoid all such problems is simple. Select your own agent (expert immobilier/expert) to do the check-in and the check-out. That way both parties get a truly independent and fair assessment.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''The security deposit'''<br />
<br />
You will either need to pay around three months rental up front as a security deposit against tenant-effected damages, or to ask your bank for a guarantee.<br />
<br />
The latter option is basically a low-cost insurance policy sold to you by the bank which gets your salary as its means of security. It is typically the better option because a bad-faith landlord needs to prove to the bank that he deserves the guarantee.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Home insurance'''<br />
<br />
Whether you own or rent your property, you need to get insurance. Almost all rental agreements in Belgium require the tenant to take out insurance on the rented property within 30 days of signing a lease. This insurance is required by the Belgian Civil Code, which holds a tenant responsible for any damage to the building unless proof can be given that it was not his/her fault.<br />
<br />
If you are renting, take your lease with you when you arrange your insurance. You are also responsible for providing cover against third party liability, but the owner is required to have a policy covering the property against earthquakes, lightning, fire, etc. If you are in furnished accommodation, you are required to take out insurance against damage to the landlord's furniture.<br />
<br />
Contents insurance is not compulsory but advisable. Remember that theft is not covered automatically in contents insurance: it is an option. Valuable personal items such as jewellery or cameras may require an all risks policy, which will cover you for damage or loss in or out of the home. Premiums on these for desirables such as laptop computers are high.<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Sharing an apartment/Renting a room ===<br />
<br />
Sharing an appartment or renting a room in some bigger building which features common space for every inhabitant has several advantages over living alone:<br />
<br />
* you'll be never be alone<br />
* it's cheaper<br />
* you will most certainly learn french a lot faster (or chinese, or...)<br />
* it will improve your social life<br />
* you can rely on the knowlegde of your flatmates about Brussels<br />
<br />
Of course, it has several disadvantages:<br />
<br />
* you'll be never be alone<br />
* you have to share kitchen and bathroom, which isn't always nice<br />
<br />
It's certainly not for everyone, but it's a good and fun option. It heavily depends on your flatmates, so finding a good match is even more important than finding a nice appartment to share.<br />
<br />
''' Options '''<br />
<br />
If you want to share a house/appartment, you should know a few things. You basically have two options when you want to do this:<br />
<br />
# Rent a room in a bigger building (kind of student-dorm like) In Belgium single rooms to rent is referred to as a ''kot'' or simply ''chambre''. This is usually the cheapest option, as you can get one for less than 300 Euros including charges. The rooms are usually rented individually by the landlord. The major drawback is that you don't know much about the people you're going to share the common rooms with. Sometimes these rooms are simply part of a Belgian family household, so if you're seeking contact to local people this might be a good way. Usually a kot is rented by young people and erasmus students.<br />
# A ''colocation'' on the other hand is when several people rent a house/appartment together. You usually have more space and closer relationship to your flatmates. For this reason, you should choose them wisely. If your looking for a rich social life, this is the way to go. Colocations start around 300 Euros, but are usually around 450 Euros for a reasonably spaced room.<br />
<br />
''' Where to look '''<br />
<br />
In order to find a kot/colocation, you have several ways to look for it:<br />
* For a kot go to the l'office de logement in building F1 on campus Solbosch. On the first floor are two big boards full of offers. Note that these offers are usually made by landlords which are french-speaking. You can access a list here: http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/intranet/logements/scripts/logpub.php (for contact details you have to write the office or have a look at the board though).<br />
* Check the streets and the university buildings for handwritten ads.<br />
* http://www.xpats.com/clads/clads_display.php?Action=view&categorie=7&start=60<br />
* http://xsorbit29.com/users5/stageforum/index.php?board=4.0<br />
* http://bruxelles.vivastreet.be/annonces-colocation+bruxelles<br />
* http://www.languesvivantes.com/uk/roomsinbrussels.htm<br />
* http://www.recherche-colocation.com/ (commercial, you have to pay to get contact details)<br />
* http://www.appartager.be/ (commercial, you have to pay to get contact details)<br />
<br />
=== Furniture ===<br />
<br />
If you move into an unfurnished apartment, [http://www.ikea.be IKEA] is a good option. They have two branches in Brussels, the one in Zaventem is close to the airport. You can even rent a truck there to take your new furniture to your place (and it is not expensive).<br />
<br />
Another option is second-hand furniture. Brussels houses lots of expats coming and going, so often you can find good deals for second-hand items ranging from apartments, furniture and cars. [http://www.xpats.com XPATS.com] - a site for expatriates in Brussels and the surrounding area. Go to the [http://www.xpats.com/classifieds_main.shtml Classified] section and choose the http://www.xpats.com/clads/clads_display.php?Action=view&categorie=12 For sale section]. There is usually heaps of stuff for sale and many new ads are added daily. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Currency ==<br />
<br />
Belgium is in the eurozone, sharing a common currency with Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.<br />
<br />
Of the old EU countries, Sweden, Denmark and the UK are the outsiders and many of the 10 new EU countries plan to adopt the euro when they are ready to do so, but not for a few years yet.<br />
<br />
Coins: 1 cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents, 1 EUR, 2 EUR<br />
<br />
Notes: 5 EUR, 10 EUR, 20 EUR, 50 EUR, 100 EUR, 200 EUR, 500 EUR<br />
<br />
On one side of the coins is a European Union emblem showing a map of the eurozone surrounded by the 12 stars of the union. On the other side is a design specific to the country where it was minted.<br />
<br />
Euros from any of the 12 countries may be used anywhere in the EU. All euro notes are the same, regardless of which country they come from.<br />
<br />
=== Paying for goods and services ===<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Cash'''<br />
<br />
Cash dispensers are everywhere where there is a bank, and they all take Bancontact cards �?? issued by local banks. But beware, you might have to wander around to find one that takes your Visa or MasterCard or other major credit and debit cards.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Credit and Debit Cards'''<br />
<br />
Most types of credit card are widely accepted. If you get a standard Visa or Eurocard/MasterCard from a local bank, the standard option is for this to operate like a debit card, with the full balance taken from your account each month.<br />
<br />
A full service credit option is widely available on request.<br />
<br />
Diner's, American Express and other major international credit cards can also be obtained and used in Belgium.<br />
<br />
The most common card in Belgium is the Mister Cash-Bancontact card. It is linked to your current account, and is accepted in department stores, supermarkets, gas stations, and high street shops everywhere. It's a good idea to have one of these, as there are still many places in Belgium that don't accept alternatives.<br />
<br />
A Bancontact card with a PIN number will be issued when you open a Belgian bank account.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Proton'''<br />
<br />
Belgium is a pioneer in a cashless society.<br />
<br />
The Proton card is actually a chip integrated into your Bancontact card and is like a rechargeable electronic purse.<br />
<br />
It is designed to pay for everyday items such as newspapers and cigarettes, as well as<br />
paying the butcher and the baker.<br />
<br />
You can even use it for the parking meter, or to fill up your car with petrol.<br />
<br />
This is how it works:<br />
<br />
Using your usual four-digit PIN code, you load the card with up to EUR 1,240 at a cash dispenser,and then go shopping.<br />
<br />
The shopkeeper enters the amount to be paid into the Proton terminal, and you put your Proton card into the terminal.<br />
<br />
When the amount to be paid appears on the screen, you simply press the OK button, and the payment is made.<br />
<br />
A word of caution: a lost card is like lost cash so choose the amount you load wisely.<br />
<br />
=== Bank account ===<br />
<br />
Getting a bank account is straight-forward. Simply choose a bank and set up an interview. Mrs. Laurence Schor (email: first name . second name @ing.be, phone number 02 639 65 46) is an excellent English speaker and very helpful. Make an appointment with her. She works for ING, which is one of the large banks in Belgium and they have a branch only ~400m from the university (Av. de l'Universite 11, 1050 Brussels). You may also open a bank account at the small ING branch on campus Solbosch. To open the bank account, you will need at least a passport (or ID card if you are from EU) and a document proving your relation with the university (e.g., a signed letter from your supervisor). You may need additional documents if you are from outside EU.<br />
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Usually, banks can also help out with matters related to insurance of property etc.<br />
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== Transportation ==<br />
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Getting around Brussels by the public transport system is easy: The city sports a decent system of metros, busses and trams. The first thing to do when you arrive in Brussels is to get a map of the busses, trams and metros. You can get that in many places, e.g. at the Central Station, get one - it will be your best friend in the beginning. <br />
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If you want to go straight to Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) from the Central Station you should take [http://www.stib.irisnet.be/FR/40000Fre/B/40071F.htm bus 71] (when you exit the Central Station the stop for 71 is just 40m up the street alongside a number of other stops). It runs fairly frequently - every 20 mins or so - from early morning to midnight.<br />
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===Tickets===<br />
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In busses and trams you can buy a one-trip ticket for 2 euro from the driver. They will allow you to take any means of urban, public transport for one hour. In metro stations you can also by 5 and 10 trip tickets in machines (11 euro for the 10 trips ticket), which work in the exact same way, but are cheaper. The tickets are called "Jump tickets". Once you have a ticket, it needs to be stamped by one of the orange machines located in every tram and bus (just remember to validate the ticket every time you get in, in case it's less than an hour from the previous validation, it will not consume a new ride but will stamp a transfer next to the previous one). If you use the metro, remember to stamp the ticket BEFORE entering the metro train (sometimes they have raids where tickets are checked and the cops doing that do not look friendly!)<br />
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===Importing a car===<br />
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====From outside the EU====<br />
The various steps in importing a car into Belgium from outside the European Union are lengthy and complicated. Even armed with the most current information from the official Belgian government website, you will almost certainly need the services of a broker or specialized agent. A good agent can help you with the importation of your car, conversion to Belgian specifications, conformity certificate, and technical inspection and licensing.<br />
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A car imported into Belgium from outside the EU as part of a move of your personal and household effects can be exempt from customs duties and value-added tax if the following conditions are met:<br />
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You resided outside the EU for at least 12 months before establishing residence in Belgium;<br />
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You acquired the car abroad and drove it for at least six months before arrival;<br />
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You paid sales tax in another country;<br />
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You will retain the car for your personal use for at least 12 months following the date of import.<br />
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The Belgian customs authorities require the following documents:<br />
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Letter requesting exemption of customs duties and value-added tax;<br />
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Invoice for the car;<br />
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Certificate of title; <br />
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Sales tax receipts; <br />
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Certificate of insurance covering at least six months prior to importation; <br />
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Proof of residence in a country outside the European Union for at least 12 months before departure; <br />
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Proof of residence in Belgium and date of establishment;<br />
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Shipping document for personal effects.<br />
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For further information on import procedures, contact Belgian Customs:<br />
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Ministere des Finances Service Douane or <br />
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Ministerie van Financier Kantoor Douane <br />
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Rue Picard 1-3 <br />
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1210 Brussels <br />
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Tel. 0800.147.95 (toll-free number in Dutch, English, French and German)<br />
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Where import duty exemption is not extended, as in the case of a vehicle that has been owned less than six months, a customs duty of io percent and value-added tax of 21 percent of the market value of the car as determined by customs must be paid.<br />
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====From within the EU====<br />
It is much easier to import a car into Belgium from another European Union country. Present the car to the Belgian customs authorities, along with a copy of your Belgian identity card, proof of purchase and previous registration. Value-added tax will have to be paid on new cars (less than six months old or driven less than 6,000 kilometers) but not on cars considered to be secondhand �?? over six months old and/or with more than 6,000 kilometers on the clock. In all EU member states, VAT on secondhand cars is always paid in the country where the vehicle was purchased, because it is included in the price.<br />
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An imported car with valid foreign registration and license plates can be driven immediately upon arrival in Belgium for a maximum of six months. During this period, you must go through the formalities of registering your car with the Belgian authorities and, in the case of non-EU nationals, applying for a Belgian driving license.<br />
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== Mobile phone ==<br />
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There are several options for getting a mobile phone and/or a SIM card. There are three companies operating in Belgium: <br />
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* [http://www.proximus.be Proximus] <br />
* [http://www.base.be Base] <br />
* [http://www.mobistar.be Mobistar]<br />
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You can buy either a subscription where you pay a monthly fee and they'll send you a bill sized in accordance with your use. Alternatively, you can go for a prepaid card deal, where calls are usually a bit more expensive, but you do not have to lock yourself into a long-term contract. Moreover, you can walk straight into a store and five minutes later you got your own phone number. The prepaid cards can be recharged in tobacco shops and in any of the operator's braches.<br />
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Getting a mobile phone number right away is a GOOD IDEA. It is especially useful for finding accommodation. The rumor has it that [http://www.base.be Base] has the less expensive deals at the moment.<br />
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Make sure that your phone is not SIM-locked and that it works with the new card before leaving the store.<br />
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== Registering at the local commune ==<br />
At some point you have to register at the city hall to get a residence permit. However, it's better to wait until you have found yourself some long-term accommodation before registering because they want to have your permanent address. So it�??s not possible to register until you have a permanent place to live. Officially you have to do it within 3 months of arrival in case you are from an EU member state.<br />
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If you live in [http://www.elsene.irisnet.be/ the commune of Ixelles] you have to call the following number: 02.515.66.03, 21, 22 et 23. You can find the office time table to the following direct link of the [http://www.elsene.irisnet.be/site/fr/01officiel/servicescommun/population.htm#etrangers Bureau des �?trangers]. If you speak basic French and you are an UE citizen, it´s likely that they will schedule an appointment with you in 2-3 months for the registration. All you have to say is your nationality and that you just arrived in Ixelles and you want to register. They will ask you your last name, your first name, your address in Ixelles and your telephone number.<br />
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Some days or weeks later and before the appointment, a police man will come and visit you in your apartment to check that you are really living there (and your family members). Usually, if you are not there at that time, you just need to put your name in your mail box.<br />
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You will usually get a residence permit valid for one year at the time, thus you might have to renew your permit every year. For renewing the permission, you have to go to Chausse d'Ixelles 124 to present: a) the confirmation of enrollment of the university, b) a proof of coverage by your health insurance, c) a photo and d) 7.50 EUR.<br />
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=== Italians: registering at the AIRE ===<br />
Italians that are staying in Belgium more than 12 months must register at the [http://www.consbruxelles.esteri.it/Consolato_Bruxelles/Menu/I_Servizi/Per_i_cittadini/Anagrafe/ AIRE (Anagrafe degli Italiani Residenti all'Estero)]. You have to register within 90 days after your arrival, and in order to do that you have to go to the [http://www.consbruxelles.esteri.it/Consolato_Bruxelles/ Consolato d'Italia] in Rue de Livourne, 38. You can schedule an appointment online by clicking on [http://www.consbruxelles.esteri.it/Consolato_Bruxelles/Menu/In_linea_con_utente/Prenota_OnLine/ sportello unico -> prendere appuntamento]. You will need an Italian identity card and a Belgian document like the residence permit.<br />
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== Health-care == <br />
In order to enroll in a health care plan you need contact a ''mutualité'' for instance [http://www.euromut.be Euromut]. Fill out the web form and they will send you the necessary documents.<br />
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It take a while before you can become a member of a mutualité. However, once you are inscribed you can get any medical expenses reimbursed from the date on which you started at the university. Hence, in case something happens in between arrival and becoming a member of Euromut you are still covered.<br />
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Normally Euromut will only provide you a basic, compulsory insurance and the coverage of such an insurance is far from complete. Therefore, it is a good and cheap option to buy additional coverage e.g. for hospitalization. You can do that either through Euromut or another mutualité. The rumor has it that the insurance through the University is the cheaper one. In order to get such an insurance you should contact the ULB Social Services (internal phone numbers: 3505, 3506, 3507) or simply go to their office in the V building on the third floor (right above the university book store on Av. Adolphe Buyl). You can try with English, but your milage may vary.<br />
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=== The Belgian healtcare system ===<br />
You can be assured of the highest-quality medical care in Belgium, regarded as among the best healthcare systems in Europe.<br />
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As in most countries, the system divides itself into state and private, though fees are payable in both, so you need to ensure that you are adequately covered through either the state insurance and/or private insurance.<br />
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The advantages of the state mutuelle/mutualiteit scheme is that you can choose any doctor, clinic or hospital you like, in any location and without referral, according to your needs in much the same way as you can with private insurance.<br />
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'''Doctors'''<br />
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General practitioners can be found in private practices or attached to clinics and hospitals. You are free to consult or register with any you like; similarly with specialist consultants. It may be a decision based on location, language or recommendation.<br />
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It's always worth speaking to neighbours or colleagues when you first arrive; everyone knows of a doctor, or has heard of one with a good reputation. Embassies usually keep lists of doctors who can work in your language, though it has to be said that most doctors have a good understanding of English. See for example the webpage "[http://ukinbelgium.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/when-things-go-wrong/if-you-need-doctor if you need a doctor]" of the UK Embassy.<br />
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When you first phone a doctor, check whether they are registered as national health service or private. Some are both, perhaps working at a hospital and also in their own private practice.<br />
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One thing to remember when you go to a doctor '''take cash with you'''. Consultations usually end with a handing over of money and very few doctors offer payment by card of any type. If you have state social security, reimbursement rates are calculated and you pay the difference; if you are on a private scheme, or are uninsured, you pay the whole lot there and then. It's always worth checking fees before you book an appointment.<br />
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'''Dentists'''<br />
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The majority of dentists in Belgium are private, though there are those who accept part-payment on state insurance. Make it a priority to check when registering as the fee differentials can be huge. For any specialist work, such as crowns and bridges, the dentist may well ask how you will pay and offer you different quotations. In the big cities, Brussels in particular, there are international dentistry practices as well as Belgian.<br />
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'''Hospitals'''<br />
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As with general practitioners, you can arrange to see a specialist of your choice at any hospital. You can also walk into an emergency department for immediate treatment, though as in other countries, do not use this as a general practitioner replacement. It makes life a lot easier if you have your insurance card or other identifiable means of payment with you, though treatment will not be refused if you don't.<br />
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'''Emergency treatment'''<br />
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If you need to use the emergency 100 number an ambulance will arrive quickly and take you to the nearest emergency centre. Sometimes, a decision may be made to admit you to the best centre suited for your needs, for example, a specialist burns unit.<br />
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'''Pharmacies'''<br />
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Chemists are ubiquitous in Belgium, with the green cross sign everywhere. There is a rota system for chemists to open outside of usual hours and through the night. Lists are available from any pharmacy or check newspapers for those open at night in your area.<br />
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'''Health insurance'''<br />
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Contributions to the state health system are made by you and your employer, or by you alone if you are self-employed. Payments and benefits are administered by one of the mutelle/mutualiteit societies.<br />
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You can choose one that best suits your needs. For example, some are more geared to the self-employed, while others may provide cover for alternative medicine. Once you are a paying member you receive your social security ID, or SIS, a microchip card which carries all your details.<br />
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Hospitals and chemists will use these to calculate what you are entitled to and if there is any price difference for you to cover. As already explained, many doctors have not yet invested in the necessary technology for SIS cards in their surgeries.<br />
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You may choose to cover yourself with private insurance, indeed many overseas salary packages offer this as a benefit. However, if you are living and working in Belgium, you will still need to subscribe to the state system and your private insurance becomes an addition rather than a replacement.<br />
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If you are an EU national, the social security form E111 gives you rights to use the Belgian state system until you have organised an SIS card. You need to arrange for this form in your own country, not in Belgium.<br />
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== Useful web sites ==<br />
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=== Online maps ===<br />
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Check the following sites for maps:<br />
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* [http://www.maporama.com Maporama] - an international site with lots of cities and options. Includes a route planner as well. The most accurate so far.<br />
* [http://www.mappy.be Mappy] - a Belgian run site - type in an address or district and you get a zoomable map. <br />
* [http://www.viamichelin.com Via Michelin] a nice route planer and map finder. Not as many Brussels addresses are available as [http://www.mappy.be Mappy], but produces nice maps for print outs.<br />
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=== Transportation web sites ===<br />
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* [http://www.stib.be STIB] - The site of the company responsible for urban transport in Brussels. It contains [http://www.stib.irisnet.be/FR/40000F.htm time tables for busses trams and metros]. The site is only in French and Dutch. Time table is <i>"Horaires"</i> in French and <i>"Dienstregeling"</i> in Dutch.<br />
* [http://www.tec-wl.be Transport En Commun (TEC)] - Regional bus company. Their site is available in English.<br />
* [http://www.sncb.be SNCB] - Regional train company.<br />
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=== Expatriate web sites ===<br />
These websites have various sections, communities and information related to being a foreigner in Belgium and Brussels in particular. Some have sections ranging from buy and sell to expat dating. Definitely worth checking out:<br />
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* [http://www.xpats.com XPATS.com]<br />
* [http://www.expatsinbrussels.com ExpatsInBrussels]<br />
* [http://www.expatriates.com Expatriates]<br />
* [http://www.expatriate-online.com Expatriate-online]<br />
<br />
<br />
Mobile researchers in Europe have their own network of more than 200 �??service points�?? in 32 countries to draw on for all kinds of support when moving between countries: visas, work permits, taxation, social security, healthcare, pension rights, accommodation, recognition of qualifications, to day care, schooling, language courses, social life and culture, intellectual property rights, and more.<br />
* [http://europa.eu.int/eracareers/index_en.cfm?l1=4 European Network of Mobility Centres (ERA-MORE)]</div>
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https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Moving_to_Brussels&diff=5628
Moving to Brussels
2011-09-28T06:59:02Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
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<div>Moving to a new country can be both exciting and frustrating. Everything is fascinating and at the same time it can be confusing to find your way around a new city, a culture and possibly a new language. The objective of this page is to provide some information for newcomers to IRIDIA, such as Ph.D. students, and Brussels in general in order to make the initial couple of weeks a bit easier. The information contained in this document has been collected by people who have been through the process. If you have any questions, suggestions, additions or such, please make them.<br />
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== Short-term accommodation ==<br />
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For short-term accommodation (that is a place to sleep for the first couple of weeks you are in Brussels) a bed and breakfast is a convenient option. Depending on your budget and confidence in finding more long-term accommodation quickly there is a number of different options to choose from:<br />
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* [http://www.csfds.be Centre Sportif de la Foret de Soignes] is a sports facility in the outskirts of Brussels. It is quite cheap for longer stays at ~230 euro/month or ~16 euros/day for shorter stays. There is easy access to the university: [http://www.stib.irisnet.be/FR/40000Fre/B/40072F.htm Bus number 72] runs directly between ULB and the center (also known as A.D.E.P.S.) and the ride is 15 to 20 mins. And that is about all the good things that there are to say about the place. Breakfast is not included, the rooms are very basic, the reception closes at 23h00 on weekdays, 22h00 on Saturdays and at 20h00 on Sundays. You either have to be there before closing time or you'll have to arranged with the Security staff or the reception, that you will come at a later hour. Being so far out is by no means an ideal way to get acquainted with the city. However, if you intend to stay in short-term for a whole month [http://www.csfds.be Centre Sportif de la Foret de Soignes] might be the least expensive option. If you want to book a room there you have to do it through IRIDIA.<br />
* [http://www.bnb-brussels.be Bed &amp; Brussels] manages rooms in more than 100 guesthouses. Have a look and contact them if you are interested. If you book a room make sure that it is close to the university (Ixelles 1050 or Uccle 1180). '''Hint:''' Go to [http://www.maporama.com Maporama] and punch in the address of the guest house to see how far it is from ULB.<br />
* [http://rycx.be/bedbreakfast/en/ Rycx's family house] The guest house at Square Robert Goldschmidt, 50 - B-1050 Brussels, Belgium] should be quite good, inexpensive and very close to the university. They only have few rooms.<br />
* [http://www.brusselsdestination.be/en/index.html Destination Brussels] offers rooms, flats, and studios for stays of 4 weeks or longer. At the moment of writing this, the map offered by the site is often incorrect, so be sure to check the address given using a different map.<br />
* [http://www.myapartmentinbrussels.com/index.html MyAppartmentInBrussels] offers appartments (from 1 to 3 bedrooms), houses and studios completly furnished in different parts of the city. They permit stays from lest than 1 month to more than 1 year.<br />
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== Long-term accommodation ==<br />
In case you do not already live in Brussels, one of the first and most important things to do obviously is to find an apartment. One option is to buy the magazine "Vlan" where you have lots of ads for flats and etc. You can as well visit the [http://www.vlan.be Vlan website], which is very good and publishes the announcements shortly after they are published in the magazine. You can try out [http://www.immoweb.be IMMOWEB.be] on which apartments are also advertised. Another great website full of ads for apartments and furniture is [http://www.expatsinbrussels.com/ Expats in Brussel].<br />
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An alternative method is to simply walk around in the neighborhood you are interested in living in as the landlords hang out easy identifiable announcements. As this might not be a usual way to find accommodation in other countries it works in Belgium. There are a lot of signs put up and sometimes this is the only way in which apartments are advertised. Walking around is probably a bit more time consuming than finding a flat through the Vlan, but on the other side you get to know the area, and you are likely to find one of the apartments close to the University not advertised on the web. The signs read "A Louer" or "Te Huur", which translates to "for rent". There are lots of rooms and apartments for rent. They vary a lot in terms of quality and price, so you might have to spend some time to find something that suites your budget and your style.<br />
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Most other students at IRIDIA live quite close to the university; choosing a place in the neighborhood is likely to improve your social life.<br />
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In case you don't speak any French it is recommendable to ask a French speaker (e.g. at IRIDIA) to check the contract. Even though the probability is low that some landlord wants to cheat, it is always better to know what exactly is written in the contract!<br />
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=== Renting an apartment ===<br />
Once you have found the property you want to rent, you need a lease (bail/kontract), an inventory (etat des lieux/plaatsbeschrijving), a security deposit, and to get the phone, electricity and gas reconnected.<br />
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There is an element of Catch 22 here - there is a certain order to get things done that, at times, seems to be mutually exclusive.<br />
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'''The lease'''<br />
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Belgium has an odd system of a standard nine-year flexible lease, and an inflexible three-year lease. At first sight the three-year lease seems the most attractive to a newcomer whose time in the country is uncertain, but this is not necessarily the case.<br />
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A three-year lease can be for any agreed period up to a maximum of three years. It fixes the rent for the period of the lease and commits the tenant to pay for the entire period of the lease. It can include a diplomatic clause (designed to indemnify the tenant if he wants to break the lease because he is leaving the country) but these have been nullified by the Belgian Courts in the past.<br />
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It is thus better to opt for a nine-year lease, which can in fact be broken by giving three months notice. But if you leave in the first, second or third year, you will pay an indemnity of three, two and one month's rent respectively. From year four, there is no penalty for leaving.<br />
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The monthly rent is fixed for nine years subject to the normal state-controlled annual indexation. The landlord can only give you notice if they intend to occupy the property personally, need to carry out major works (where major has a legal definition), or at the end of year three or year six, for no reason but subject to compensation to the tenant of nine or six month's rent respectively.<br />
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For an apartment, the monthly outgoing may include an element of rent and a fixed amount of service charge. Usually the service charge is just a prepayment (provision pour charges/vooruitbetaling) and there will be an annual assessment of common charges for the property that you will share in.<br />
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If you want to negotiate a better price, negotiate down the rental not the service charges! If there are things you want the landlord to correct before you move in, don't sign the lease until they have happened.<br />
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'''The inventory'''<br />
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The inventory (etat des lieux /plaatsbeschrijvin) is the source of more misery to tenants than any other legal document.<br />
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Typically, the landlord's agent prepares a stunningly detailed list of the condition of the property complete with photographs. The tenant reads it or not and signs. At the end of the lease, the landlord's agent checks the property and finds an unreasonable amount of property damage.<br />
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Expats have been charged for scratches in the bath that were there before they arrived, and for damp patches caused by the landlord's failure to repair a roof. That the cost of the damage often comes to about the level of the retained security deposit is a coincidence of course!<br />
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It is bad enough to have someone who seems to be less than independent assessing costs against you, even more irritating is that you have to pay 50 percent of his bill. Some agents insist you sign a document agreeing to the fee and to accept his expertise before he starts. Don't do so.<br />
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The way to avoid all such problems is simple. Select your own agent (expert immobilier/expert) to do the check-in and the check-out. That way both parties get a truly independent and fair assessment.<br />
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'''The security deposit'''<br />
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You will either need to pay around three months rental up front as a security deposit against tenant-effected damages, or to ask your bank for a guarantee.<br />
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The latter option is basically a low-cost insurance policy sold to you by the bank which gets your salary as its means of security. It is typically the better option because a bad-faith landlord needs to prove to the bank that he deserves the guarantee.<br />
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'''Home insurance'''<br />
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Whether you own or rent your property, you need to get insurance. Almost all rental agreements in Belgium require the tenant to take out insurance on the rented property within 30 days of signing a lease. This insurance is required by the Belgian Civil Code, which holds a tenant responsible for any damage to the building unless proof can be given that it was not his/her fault.<br />
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If you are renting, take your lease with you when you arrange your insurance. You are also responsible for providing cover against third party liability, but the owner is required to have a policy covering the property against earthquakes, lightning, fire, etc. If you are in furnished accommodation, you are required to take out insurance against damage to the landlord's furniture.<br />
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Contents insurance is not compulsory but advisable. Remember that theft is not covered automatically in contents insurance: it is an option. Valuable personal items such as jewellery or cameras may require an all risks policy, which will cover you for damage or loss in or out of the home. Premiums on these for desirables such as laptop computers are high.<br />
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=== Sharing an apartment/Renting a room ===<br />
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Sharing an appartment or renting a room in some bigger building which features common space for every inhabitant has several advantages over living alone:<br />
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* you'll be never be alone<br />
* it's cheaper<br />
* you will most certainly learn french a lot faster (or chinese, or...)<br />
* it will improve your social life<br />
* you can rely on the knowlegde of your flatmates about Brussels<br />
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Of course, it has several disadvantages:<br />
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* you'll be never be alone<br />
* you have to share kitchen and bathroom, which isn't always nice<br />
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It's certainly not for everyone, but it's a good and fun option. It heavily depends on your flatmates, so finding a good match is even more important than finding a nice appartment to share.<br />
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''' Options '''<br />
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If you want to share a house/appartment, you should know a few things. You basically have two options when you want to do this:<br />
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# Rent a room in a bigger building (kind of student-dorm like) In Belgium single rooms to rent is referred to as a ''kot'' or simply ''chambre''. This is usually the cheapest option, as you can get one for less than 300 Euros including charges. The rooms are usually rented individually by the landlord. The major drawback is that you don't know much about the people you're going to share the common rooms with. Sometimes these rooms are simply part of a Belgian family household, so if you're seeking contact to local people this might be a good way. Usually a kot is rented by young people and erasmus students.<br />
# A ''colocation'' on the other hand is when several people rent a house/appartment together. You usually have more space and closer relationship to your flatmates. For this reason, you should choose them wisely. If your looking for a rich social life, this is the way to go. Colocations start around 300 Euros, but are usually around 450 Euros for a reasonably spaced room.<br />
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''' Where to look '''<br />
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In order to find a kot/colocation, you have several ways to look for it:<br />
* For a kot go to the l'office de logement in building F1 on campus Solbosch. On the first floor are two big boards full of offers. Note that these offers are usually made by landlords which are french-speaking. You can access a list here: http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/intranet/logements/scripts/logpub.php (for contact details you have to write the office or have a look at the board though).<br />
* Check the streets and the university buildings for handwritten ads.<br />
* http://www.xpats.com/clads/clads_display.php?Action=view&categorie=7&start=60<br />
* http://xsorbit29.com/users5/stageforum/index.php?board=4.0<br />
* http://bruxelles.vivastreet.be/annonces-colocation+bruxelles<br />
* http://www.languesvivantes.com/uk/roomsinbrussels.htm<br />
* http://www.recherche-colocation.com/ (commercial, you have to pay to get contact details)<br />
* http://www.appartager.be/ (commercial, you have to pay to get contact details)<br />
<br />
=== Furniture ===<br />
<br />
If you move into an unfurnished apartment, [http://www.ikea.be IKEA] is a good option. They have two branches in Brussels, the one in Zaventem is close to the airport. You can even rent a truck there to take your new furniture to your place (and it is not expensive).<br />
<br />
Another option is second-hand furniture. Brussels houses lots of expats coming and going, so often you can find good deals for second-hand items ranging from apartments, furniture and cars. [http://www.xpats.com XPATS.com] - a site for expatriates in Brussels and the surrounding area. Go to the [http://www.xpats.com/classifieds_main.shtml Classified] section and choose the http://www.xpats.com/clads/clads_display.php?Action=view&categorie=12 For sale section]. There is usually heaps of stuff for sale and many new ads are added daily. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Currency ==<br />
<br />
Belgium is in the eurozone, sharing a common currency with Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.<br />
<br />
Of the old EU countries, Sweden, Denmark and the UK are the outsiders and many of the 10 new EU countries plan to adopt the euro when they are ready to do so, but not for a few years yet.<br />
<br />
Coins: 1 cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents, 1 EUR, 2 EUR<br />
<br />
Notes: 5 EUR, 10 EUR, 20 EUR, 50 EUR, 100 EUR, 200 EUR, 500 EUR<br />
<br />
On one side of the coins is a European Union emblem showing a map of the eurozone surrounded by the 12 stars of the union. On the other side is a design specific to the country where it was minted.<br />
<br />
Euros from any of the 12 countries may be used anywhere in the EU. All euro notes are the same, regardless of which country they come from.<br />
<br />
=== Paying for goods and services ===<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Cash'''<br />
<br />
Cash dispensers are everywhere where there is a bank, and they all take Bancontact cards �?? issued by local banks. But beware, you might have to wander around to find one that takes your Visa or MasterCard or other major credit and debit cards.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Credit and Debit Cards'''<br />
<br />
Most types of credit card are widely accepted. If you get a standard Visa or Eurocard/MasterCard from a local bank, the standard option is for this to operate like a debit card, with the full balance taken from your account each month.<br />
<br />
A full service credit option is widely available on request.<br />
<br />
Diner's, American Express and other major international credit cards can also be obtained and used in Belgium.<br />
<br />
The most common card in Belgium is the Mister Cash-Bancontact card. It is linked to your current account, and is accepted in department stores, supermarkets, gas stations, and high street shops everywhere. It's a good idea to have one of these, as there are still many places in Belgium that don't accept alternatives.<br />
<br />
A Bancontact card with a PIN number will be issued when you open a Belgian bank account.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Proton'''<br />
<br />
Belgium is a pioneer in a cashless society.<br />
<br />
The Proton card is actually a chip integrated into your Bancontact card and is like a rechargeable electronic purse.<br />
<br />
It is designed to pay for everyday items such as newspapers and cigarettes, as well as<br />
paying the butcher and the baker.<br />
<br />
You can even use it for the parking meter, or to fill up your car with petrol.<br />
<br />
This is how it works:<br />
<br />
Using your usual four-digit PIN code, you load the card with up to EUR 1,240 at a cash dispenser,and then go shopping.<br />
<br />
The shopkeeper enters the amount to be paid into the Proton terminal, and you put your Proton card into the terminal.<br />
<br />
When the amount to be paid appears on the screen, you simply press the OK button, and the payment is made.<br />
<br />
A word of caution: a lost card is like lost cash so choose the amount you load wisely.<br />
<br />
=== Bank account ===<br />
<br />
Getting a bank account is straight-forward. Simply choose a bank and set up an interview. Mrs. Laurence Schor (email: first name . second name @ing.be, phone number 02 639 65 46) is an excellent English speaker and very helpful. Make an appointment with her. She works for ING, which is one of the large banks in Belgium and they have a branch only ~400m from the university (Av. de l'Universite 11, 1050 Brussels). You may also open a bank account at the small ING branch on campus Solbosch. To open the bank account, you will need at least a passport (or ID card if you are from EU) and a document proving your relation with the university (e.g., a signed letter from your supervisor). You may need additional documents if you are from outside EU.<br />
<br />
Usually, banks can also help out with matters related to insurance of property etc.<br />
<br />
== Transportation ==<br />
<br />
Getting around Brussels by the public transport system is easy: The city sports a decent system of metros, busses and trams. The first thing to do when you arrive in Brussels is to get a map of the busses, trams and metros. You can get that in many places, e.g. at the Central Station, get one - it will be your best friend in the beginning. <br />
<br />
If you want to go straight to Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) from the Central Station you should take [http://www.stib.irisnet.be/FR/40000Fre/B/40071F.htm bus 71] (when you exit the Central Station the stop for 71 is just 40m up the street alongside a number of other stops). It runs fairly frequently - every 20 mins or so - from early morning to midnight.<br />
<br />
===Tickets===<br />
<br />
In busses and trams you can buy a one-trip ticket for 2 euro from the driver. They will allow you to take any means of urban, public transport for one hour. In metro stations you can also by 5 and 10 trip tickets in machines (11 euro for the 10 trips ticket), which work in the exact same way, but are cheaper. The tickets are called "Jump tickets". Once you have a ticket, it needs to be stamped by one of the orange machines located in every tram and bus (just remember to validate the ticket every time you get in, in case it's less than an hour from the previous validation, it will not consume a new ride but will stamp a transfer next to the previous one). If you use the metro, remember to stamp the ticket BEFORE entering the metro train (sometimes they have raids where tickets are checked and the cops doing that do not look friendly!)<br />
<br />
===Importing a car===<br />
<br />
====From outside the EU====<br />
The various steps in importing a car into Belgium from outside the European Union are lengthy and complicated. Even armed with the most current information from the official Belgian government website, you will almost certainly need the services of a broker or specialized agent. A good agent can help you with the importation of your car, conversion to Belgian specifications, conformity certificate, and technical inspection and licensing.<br />
<br />
<br />
A car imported into Belgium from outside the EU as part of a move of your personal and household effects can be exempt from customs duties and value-added tax if the following conditions are met:<br />
<br />
<br />
You resided outside the EU for at least 12 months before establishing residence in Belgium;<br />
<br />
You acquired the car abroad and drove it for at least six months before arrival;<br />
<br />
You paid sales tax in another country;<br />
<br />
You will retain the car for your personal use for at least 12 months following the date of import.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Belgian customs authorities require the following documents:<br />
<br />
Letter requesting exemption of customs duties and value-added tax;<br />
<br />
Invoice for the car;<br />
<br />
Certificate of title; <br />
<br />
Sales tax receipts; <br />
<br />
Certificate of insurance covering at least six months prior to importation; <br />
<br />
Proof of residence in a country outside the European Union for at least 12 months before departure; <br />
<br />
Proof of residence in Belgium and date of establishment;<br />
<br />
Shipping document for personal effects.<br />
<br />
<br />
For further information on import procedures, contact Belgian Customs:<br />
<br />
Ministere des Finances Service Douane or <br />
<br />
Ministerie van Financier Kantoor Douane <br />
<br />
Rue Picard 1-3 <br />
<br />
1210 Brussels <br />
<br />
Tel. 0800.147.95 (toll-free number in Dutch, English, French and German)<br />
<br />
<br />
Where import duty exemption is not extended, as in the case of a vehicle that has been owned less than six months, a customs duty of io percent and value-added tax of 21 percent of the market value of the car as determined by customs must be paid.<br />
<br />
====From within the EU====<br />
It is much easier to import a car into Belgium from another European Union country. Present the car to the Belgian customs authorities, along with a copy of your Belgian identity card, proof of purchase and previous registration. Value-added tax will have to be paid on new cars (less than six months old or driven less than 6,000 kilometers) but not on cars considered to be secondhand �?? over six months old and/or with more than 6,000 kilometers on the clock. In all EU member states, VAT on secondhand cars is always paid in the country where the vehicle was purchased, because it is included in the price.<br />
<br />
An imported car with valid foreign registration and license plates can be driven immediately upon arrival in Belgium for a maximum of six months. During this period, you must go through the formalities of registering your car with the Belgian authorities and, in the case of non-EU nationals, applying for a Belgian driving license.<br />
<br />
== Mobile phone ==<br />
<br />
There are several options for getting a mobile phone and/or a SIM card. There are three companies operating in Belgium: <br />
<br />
* [http://www.proximus.be Proximus] <br />
* [http://www.base.be Base] <br />
* [http://www.mobistar.be Mobistar]<br />
<br />
You can buy either a subscription where you pay a monthly fee and they'll send you a bill sized in accordance with your use. Alternatively, you can go for a prepaid card deal, where calls are usually a bit more expensive, but you do not have to lock yourself into a long-term contract. Moreover, you can walk straight into a store and five minutes later you got your own phone number. The prepaid cards can be recharged in tobacco shops and in any of the operator's braches.<br />
<br />
Getting a mobile phone number right away is a GOOD IDEA. It is especially useful for finding accommodation. The rumor has it that [http://www.base.be Base] has the less expensive deals at the moment.<br />
<br />
Make sure that your phone is not SIM-locked and that it works with the new card before leaving the store.<br />
<br />
== Registering at the local commune ==<br />
At some point you have to register at the city hall to get a residence permit. However, it's better to wait until you have found yourself some long-term accommodation before registering because they want to have your permanent address. So it�??s not possible to register until you have a permanent place to live. Officially you have to do it within 3 months of arrival in case you are from an EU member state.<br />
<br />
If you live in [http://www.elsene.irisnet.be/ the commune of Ixelles] you have to call the following number: 02.515.66.03, 21, 22 et 23. You can find the office time table to the following direct link of the [http://www.elsene.irisnet.be/site/fr/01officiel/servicescommun/population.htm#etrangers Bureau des �?trangers]. If you speak basic French and you are an UE citizen, it´s likely that they will schedule an appointment with you in 2-3 months for the registration. All you have to say is your nationality and that you just arrived in Ixelles and you want to register. They will ask you your last name, your first name, your address in Ixelles and your telephone number.<br />
<br />
Some days or weeks later and before the appointment, a police man will come and visit you in your apartment to check that you are really living there (and your family members). Usually, if you are not there at that time, you just need to put your name in your mail box.<br />
<br />
You will usually get a residence permit valid for one year at the time, thus you might have to renew your permit every year. For renewing the permission, you have to go to Chausse d'Ixelles 124 to present: a) the confirmation of enrollment of the university, b) a proof of coverage by your health insurance, c) a photo and d) 7.50 EUR.<br />
<br />
=== Italians: registering at the AIRE ===<br />
Italians that are staying in Belgium more than 12 months must register at the [http://www.consbruxelles.esteri.it/Consolato_Bruxelles/Menu/I_Servizi/Per_i_cittadini/Anagrafe/ AIRE (Anagrafe degli Italiani Residenti all'Estero)]. You have to register within 90 days after your arrival, and in order to do that you have to go to the [http://www.consbruxelles.esteri.it/Consolato_Bruxelles/ Consolato d'Italia] in Rue de Livourne, 38. You can schedule an appointment online by clicking on [http://www.consbruxelles.esteri.it/Consolato_Bruxelles/Menu/In_linea_con_utente/Prenota_OnLine/ sportello unico -> prendere appuntamento]. You will need an Italian identity card and a Belgian document like the residence permit.<br />
<br />
== Health-care == <br />
In order to enroll in a health care plan you need contact a ''mutualité'' for instance [http://www.euromut.be Euromut]. Fill out the web form and they will send you the necessary documents.<br />
<br />
It take a while before you can become a member of a mutualité. However, once you are inscribed you can get any medical expenses reimbursed from the date on which you started at the university. Hence, in case something happens in between arrival and becoming a member of Euromut you are still covered.<br />
<br />
Normally Euromut will only provide you a basic, compulsory insurance and the coverage of such an insurance is far from complete. Therefore, it is a good and cheap option to buy additional coverage e.g. for hospitalization. You can do that either through Euromut or another mutualité. The rumor has it that the insurance through the University is the cheaper one. In order to get such an insurance you should contact the ULB Social Services (internal phone numbers: 3505, 3506, 3507) or simply go to their office in the V building on the third floor (right above the university book store on Av. Adolphe Buyl). You can try with English, but your milage may vary.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=== The Belgian healtcare system ===<br />
You can be assured of the highest-quality medical care in Belgium, regarded as among the best healthcare systems in Europe.<br />
<br />
As in most countries, the system divides itself into state and private, though fees are payable in both, so you need to ensure that you are adequately covered through either the state insurance and/or private insurance.<br />
<br />
The advantages of the state mutuelle/mutualiteit scheme is that you can choose any doctor, clinic or hospital you like, in any location and without referral, according to your needs in much the same way as you can with private insurance.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Doctors'''<br />
<br />
General practitioners can be found in private practices or attached to clinics and hospitals. You are free to consult or register with any you like; similarly with specialist consultants. It may be a decision based on location, language or recommendation.<br />
<br />
It's always worth speaking to neighbours or colleagues when you first arrive; everyone knows of a doctor, or has heard of one with a good reputation. Embassies usually keep lists of doctors who can work in your language, though it has to be said that most doctors have a good understanding of English. See for example the webpage "[http://ukinbelgium.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/when-things-go-wrong/if-you-need-doctor if you need a doctor]" of the UK Embassy.<br />
<br />
When you first phone a doctor, check whether they are registered as national health service or private. Some are both, perhaps working at a hospital and also in their own private practice.<br />
<br />
One thing to remember when you go to a doctor '''take cash with you'''. Consultations usually end with a handing over of money and very few doctors offer payment by card of any type. If you have state social security, reimbursement rates are calculated and you pay the difference; if you are on a private scheme, or are uninsured, you pay the whole lot there and then. It's always worth checking fees before you book an appointment.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dentists'''<br />
<br />
The majority of dentists in Belgium are private, though there are those who accept part-payment on state insurance. Make it a priority to check when registering as the fee differentials can be huge. For any specialist work, such as crowns and bridges, the dentist may well ask how you will pay and offer you different quotations. In the big cities, Brussels in particular, there are international dentistry practices as well as Belgian.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Hospitals'''<br />
<br />
As with general practitioners, you can arrange to see a specialist of your choice at any hospital. You can also walk into an emergency department for immediate treatment, though as in other countries, do not use this as a general practitioner replacement. It makes life a lot easier if you have your insurance card or other identifiable means of payment with you, though treatment will not be refused if you don't.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Emergency treatment'''<br />
<br />
If you need to use the emergency 100 number an ambulance will arrive quickly and take you to the nearest emergency centre. Sometimes, a decision may be made to admit you to the best centre suited for your needs, for example, a specialist burns unit.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Pharmacies'''<br />
<br />
Chemists are ubiquitous in Belgium, with the green cross sign everywhere. There is a rota system for chemists to open outside of usual hours and through the night. Lists are available from any pharmacy or check newspapers for those open at night in your area.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Health insurance'''<br />
<br />
Contributions to the state health system are made by you and your employer, or by you alone if you are self-employed. Payments and benefits are administered by one of the mutelle/mutualiteit societies.<br />
<br />
You can choose one that best suits your needs. For example, some are more geared to the self-employed, while others may provide cover for alternative medicine. Once you are a paying member you receive your social security ID, or SIS, a microchip card which carries all your details.<br />
<br />
Hospitals and chemists will use these to calculate what you are entitled to and if there is any price difference for you to cover. As already explained, many doctors have not yet invested in the necessary technology for SIS cards in their surgeries.<br />
<br />
You may choose to cover yourself with private insurance, indeed many overseas salary packages offer this as a benefit. However, if you are living and working in Belgium, you will still need to subscribe to the state system and your private insurance becomes an addition rather than a replacement.<br />
<br />
If you are an EU national, the social security form E111 gives you rights to use the Belgian state system until you have organised an SIS card. You need to arrange for this form in your own country, not in Belgium.<br />
<br />
== Useful web sites ==<br />
<br />
=== Online maps ===<br />
<br />
Check the following sites for maps:<br />
<br />
* [http://www.maporama.com Maporama] - an international site with lots of cities and options. Includes a route planner as well. The most accurate so far.<br />
* [http://www.mappy.be Mappy] - a Belgian run site - type in an address or district and you get a zoomable map. <br />
* [http://www.viamichelin.com Via Michelin] a nice route planer and map finder. Not as many Brussels addresses are available as [http://www.mappy.be Mappy], but produces nice maps for print outs.<br />
<br />
=== Transportation web sites ===<br />
<br />
* [http://www.stib.be STIB] - The site of the company responsible for urban transport in Brussels. It contains [http://www.stib.irisnet.be/FR/40000F.htm time tables for busses trams and metros]. The site is only in French and Dutch. Time table is <i>"Horaires"</i> in French and <i>"Dienstregeling"</i> in Dutch.<br />
* [http://www.tec-wl.be Transport En Commun (TEC)] - Regional bus company. Their site is available in English.<br />
* [http://www.sncb.be SNCB] - Regional train company.<br />
<br />
=== Expatriate web sites ===<br />
These websites have various sections, communities and information related to being a foreigner in Belgium and Brussels in particular. Some have sections ranging from buy and sell to expat dating. Definitely worth checking out:<br />
<br />
* [http://www.xpats.com XPATS.com]<br />
* [http://www.expatsinbrussels.com ExpatsInBrussels]<br />
* [http://www.expatriates.com Expatriates]<br />
* [http://www.expatriate-online.com Expatriate-online]<br />
<br />
<br />
Mobile researchers in Europe have their own network of more than 200 �??service points�?? in 32 countries to draw on for all kinds of support when moving between countries: visas, work permits, taxation, social security, healthcare, pension rights, accommodation, recognition of qualifications, to day care, schooling, language courses, social life and culture, intellectual property rights, and more.<br />
* [http://europa.eu.int/eracareers/index_en.cfm?l1=4 European Network of Mobility Centres (ERA-MORE)]</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=What_you_need_to_begin_to_work_in_IRIDIA&diff=4537
What you need to begin to work in IRIDIA
2007-07-24T08:30:39Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
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<div>New students need to "activate" a number of resources in order to begin to work in IRIDIA.<br />
<br />
To the system administrator of the IRIDIA's web and email servers (currently [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/ Anders Lyhne CHRISTENSEN]) you have to ask to open an account on:<br />
* the WEB and EMAIL server<br />
<br />
To the system administrator of the IRIDIA's backup server (currently [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/ Alex CAMPO]) you have to ask to open an account on:<br />
* the BACKUP server<br />
<br />
<br />
To the system administrator of the IRIDIA's cluster (currently [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~cpinciroli/ Carlo PINCIROLI]) you have to ask to open an account on:<br />
* the CLUSTER server <br />
<br />
<br />
You have to subscribe to the following [https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ IRIDIA mailing lists]:<br />
* [https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/staff Staff]<br />
* [https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/phdstudents PhD Students]<br />
* [https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/optimization-group Optimization Group] (if your domain of research is optimization)<br />
* [https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seminars Seminars]</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=4270
Main Page
2006-09-13T14:26:17Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
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* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]] <br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Information for students]] <br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful informations]] (menu, pizza, etc...)<br />
* [[#lab_responsibilities | Lab responsabilities]] <br />
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* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]] (S-Bots, E-pucks, Software, Links)<br />
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* [[#anc2_2 | Optimization]] (Links)<br />
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* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries.html IRIDIA reports]<br />
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* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars IRIDIA seminars]<br />
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* [[#anc2_3 | Publications]] (how to publish IRIDIA reports, digital libraries)<br />
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<h1>[[#anc3 | Infrastructure]]</h1><br />
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* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc...)<br />
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<h1>Weekly meetings</h1><br />
* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
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= Adding information =<br />
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A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed .<br />
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= Detailed topics =<br />
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== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
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* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
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* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Equivalence]] - Step by step explanations to request an equivalence of diplomas from Belgium.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
** [[Insurance while travelling abroad]] - ULB's insurance<br />
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* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
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* <div id="lab_responsibilities">'''Lab responsibilities'''</div><br />
** [[Lab responsibilities]] - list of labs responsibilities/tasks and who takes care of them.<br />
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== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
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* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
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* '''E-pucks'''<br />
** [http://asl.epfl.ch/research/systems/epuck/ The official website of e-pucks]<br />
** [[e-puck FAQ]] and things that are good to know<br />
** [[e-puck resources]]<br />
** [[e-puck status]]<br />
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* '''Software'''<br />
** [[Sbot Common Repository]] - Common version control area for all sbot development.<br />
** [[Sbot Common Interface]] - Write your controller once. Compile it for simulation and real robot.<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Tracker tracker] A program to track a single pattern in a sequence of pictures.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Libdistortion libdistortion] a simple library to rectify camera images and extract easily real world coordinates of objects.<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ ECCO]<br />
* '''Metaheuristics'''<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org Ant Colony Optimization]<br />
** [http://iew3.technion.ac.il/CE/about.php Cross Entropy Method]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.research.att.com/~mgcr/grasp/gannbib/gannbib.html GRASP]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ Tabu Search]<br />
* '''Projects'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network]<br />
* '''Applications'''<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
** [http://www.tsp.gatech.edu/ TSP]<br />
** [http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/comopt/software/TSPLIB95/ TSPLIB95] - A Traveling Salesman Problem Library<br />
** [http://www.seas.upenn.edu/qaplib/ QAPLIB] - A Quadratic Assignment Problem Library<br />
** [http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/info.html OR-Library]<br />
* '''Experimental Analysis and Statistics'''<br />
** [http://www.r-project.org/ R project]<br />
** [http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html Electronic Statistics Textbook. StatSoft, Inc. (2006)]<br />
** [http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/ NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods]<br />
** [[Repository of scripts used by IRIDIA members]]<br />
* '''Software Development'''<br />
** [http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools] - Suggested compiler<br />
** [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU Coding Standards] - Suggested coding style guidelines<br />
** [http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ GSL] - GNU Scientific Library<br />
** [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] - Suggested version control tool<br />
** [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] - Suggested documentation tool for source code<br />
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=== Neural Networks ===<br />
* [[Neural Network Tutorials]]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
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* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
* [[Iridia Supplementary Information Instructions page]] - Information on HOW TO use the Iridia Supplementary Information page.<br />
* [[Write Better English]] - Basic pointers on how to raise the level of english in your paper.<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
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** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Experimental room]] - All you need to know to easily run real experiments.<br />
* <div id="anc3_2">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
** Suggested software for [[Workstation_configuration#For_Mac_OS_X_users | Mac OS X]] users<br />
** List of [[Available_commercial_software | commercial software]] we have in IRIDIA<br />
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* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]] <br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Information for students]] <br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful informations]] (menu, pizza, etc...)<br />
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* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]] (S-Bots, E-pucks, Software, Links)<br />
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* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries.html IRIDIA reports]<br />
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* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
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== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
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* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
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* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Equivalence]] - Step by step explanations to request an equivalence of diplomas from Belgium.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
** [[Insurance while travelling abroad]] - ULB's insurance<br />
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* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
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* <div id="lab_responsibilities">'''Lab responsibilities'''</div><br />
** [[Lab responsibilities]] - list of labs responsibilities/tasks and who takes care of them.<br />
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== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
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* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
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* '''E-pucks'''<br />
** [http://asl.epfl.ch/research/systems/epuck/ The official website of e-pucks]<br />
** [[e-puck FAQ]] and things that are good to know<br />
** [[e-puck resources]]<br />
** [[e-puck status]]<br />
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* '''Software'''<br />
** [[Sbot Common Repository]] - Common version control area for all sbot development.<br />
** [[Sbot Common Interface]] - Write your controller once. Compile it for simulation and real robot.<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Tracker tracker] A program to track a single pattern in a sequence of pictures.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Libdistortion libdistortion] a simple library to rectify camera images and extract easily real world coordinates of objects.<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ ECCO]<br />
* '''Metaheuristics'''<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org Ant Colony Optimization]<br />
** [http://iew3.technion.ac.il/CE/about.php Cross Entropy Method]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.research.att.com/~mgcr/grasp/gannbib/gannbib.html GRASP]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ Tabu Search]<br />
* '''Projects'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network]<br />
* '''Applications'''<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
** [http://www.tsp.gatech.edu/ TSP]<br />
** [http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/comopt/software/TSPLIB95/ TSPLIB95] - A Traveling Salesman Problem Library<br />
** [http://www.seas.upenn.edu/qaplib/ QAPLIB] - A Quadratic Assignment Problem Library<br />
** [http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/info.html OR-Library]<br />
* '''Experimental Analysis and Statistics'''<br />
** [http://www.r-project.org/ R project]<br />
** [http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html Electronic Statistics Textbook. StatSoft, Inc. (2006)]<br />
** [http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/ NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods]<br />
** [[Repository of scripts used by IRIDIA members]]<br />
* '''Software Development'''<br />
** [http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools] - Suggested compiler<br />
** [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU Coding Standards] - Suggested coding style guidelines<br />
** [http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ GSL] - GNU Scientific Library<br />
** [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] - Suggested version control tool<br />
** [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] - Suggested documentation tool for source code<br />
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=== Neural Networks ===<br />
* [[Neural Network Tutorials]]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
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* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
* [[Iridia Supplementary Information Instructions page]] - Information on HOW TO use the Iridia Supplementary Information page.<br />
* [[Write Better English]] - Basic pointers on how to raise the level of english in your paper.<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
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* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Experimental room]] - All you need to know to easily run real experiments.<br />
* <div id="anc3_2">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
** Suggested software for [[Workstation_configuration#For_Mac_OS_X_users | Mac OS X]] users<br />
** List of [[Available_commercial_software | commercial software]] we have in IRIDIA<br />
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Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors
2006-07-17T13:22:02Z
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<div>'''Please''' take a look at the discussion page, Alex.<br />
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== Journals ==<br />
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[http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi Impact factors for journels] - The link works only from within the ULB.<br />
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== Conferences ==<br />
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[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/impact.html Impact factors for conference (data is from 2003)]<br />
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| EuroGP/EvoCOP/EvoWorkshops2006 || Budapest || NA || 2005-11-11 || http://evonet.lri.fr/eurogp2006<br />
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| 3rd IEEE Conference On Intelligent Systems || Westminster || NA || 2005-12-12 || http://ieeeis06.wmin.ac.uk/<br />
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| AISB'06 Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems || Bristol || NA || 2006-01-13 || http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/planque/AISB<br />
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| GECCO 2006 || Seattle || NA || 2006-01-18 || http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2006/<br />
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| IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium || Indianapolis || NA || 2006-01-21 || http://www.computelligence.org/sis/index.php<br />
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| DARS - The 8th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems || Minnesota || NA || 2006-01-22 || http://dars06.cs.umn.edu/<br />
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| ALAMAS 2006 - 6th European Symposium on Adaptive Learning Agents and MAS || Brussels || 2006-04-03â>04 || 2006-01-30 || http://como.vub.ac.be/alamas2006/<br />
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| IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence || Vancouver || NA || 2006-01-31 || http://www.wcci2006.org/<br />
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| IEEE 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems || Prague || NA || 2006-01-31 || http://www.action-m.com/dis2006/<br />
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| 2006 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference || Philadelphia || NA || 2006-02-01 || http://roboticsconference.org<br />
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| (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems || Beijing || NA || 2006-02-15 || http://www.iros2006.org<br />
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| WAFR 2006, Seventh International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics || New York || NA || 2006-02-15 || http://www.wafr.org/<br />
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| 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'06) || Boston || 2006-06-16â>20 || 2006-02-16 || http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2006/aaai06.html<br />
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| Fifteenth Dutch-Belgian Conference on Machine Learning (BENELEARN'06) || Gent || 2006-05-11â>12 || 2006-02-17 || http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/benelearn2006<br />
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| IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics || Taipei || 2006-10-08->11 || 2006-03-01 || http://ins.cn.nctu.edu.tw/smc2006/index.htm<br />
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| ANTS 2006 || Bruxelles || NA || 2006-03-19 || http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2006/<br />
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| SAB - From Animals to Animats 9 - Simulation of Adaptive Behavior '06 || Rome || 2006-09-25->30 || 2006-03-20 || http://www.isab.org/sab06<br />
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| PPSN - Parallel Problem Soving from Nature || Reykjavik || NA || 2006-03-27 || http://ppsn2006.raunvis.hi.is<br />
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| International Conference on Natural Computation || Xi'an || 2006-09-24â>28 || 2006-04-15 || http://www.icnc-fskd2006.org/index.htm<br />
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| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence || India || NA || 2006-06-30 || http://www.ijcai.org<br />
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| IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation || Rome || 2007-04-10->14 || 2006-09-15 || http://www.icra07.org/<br />
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| Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI-2007) + 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS07) || Honolulu || NA || NA || http://ieee-cis.org/page/?sec=8&sub=4<br />
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Optimization Group Meetings
2006-05-30T12:35:23Z
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The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
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# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
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# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
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Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
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'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
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If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
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==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesBED.pdf| Basic Issues in Experiment Design]]<br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation (1st part)<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/sampling_dist/index.html Sampling distribution demo] A java applet to test sampling distribution of the mean, standard deviation and variance.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :Chapter4-part1.pdf| Hypothesis Testing and Estimation (1st part) ]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation (2nd part)<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/stanton/m262/confidence_means/confidence_means.html Confidence Intervals for Means] A java applet to demo the confidence intervals for means.<br />
* [http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v11n3/anderson-cook.html Making the Concepts of Power and Sample Size Relevant and Accessible to Students in Introductory Statistics Courses using Applets] Journal of Statistics Education<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :Chapter4-part2.pdf| Hypothesis Testing and Estimation (2nd part) ]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco Montes de Oca <br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 11th May - Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :CISM.pdf| Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 24th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Prasanna<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Prasanna<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 22nd June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Prasanna<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 29th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=4093
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-05-30T12:34:52Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Thursday 1st June - Christophe */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesBED.pdf| Basic Issues in Experiment Design]]<br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation (1st part)<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/sampling_dist/index.html Sampling distribution demo] A java applet to test sampling distribution of the mean, standard deviation and variance.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :Chapter4-part1.pdf| Hypothesis Testing and Estimation (1st part) ]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation (2nd part)<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/stanton/m262/confidence_means/confidence_means.html Confidence Intervals for Means] A java applet to demo the confidence intervals for means.<br />
* [http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v11n3/anderson-cook.html Making the Concepts of Power and Sample Size Relevant and Accessible to Students in Introductory Statistics Courses using Applets] Journal of Statistics Education<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :Chapter4-part2.pdf| Hypothesis Testing and Estimation (2nd part) ]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco Montes de Oca <br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 11th May - Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :CISM.pdf| Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 24th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Prasanna<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Prasanna<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Prasanna<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 29th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=3869
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-04-10T10:44:01Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Thursday 15th June -Alexandre */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June -Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 29th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=3868
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-04-10T10:43:26Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Thursday 1st June -Roderich */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June -Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=3867
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-04-10T10:42:54Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Thursday 18th May -Prasanna */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June -Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=3866
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-04-10T10:42:12Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Thursday 4th May - Shervin */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May -Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=3865
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-04-10T10:41:42Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Thursday May - Christophe */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May -Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=3864
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-04-10T10:40:09Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Thursday 20th April - Christophe */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday May - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May -Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=3863
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-04-10T10:39:34Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Thursday 30th March - Max Manfrin */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May -Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=3862
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-04-10T10:39:07Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Thursday 30th March - Max Manfrin */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April? - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May -Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=3861
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-04-10T10:38:42Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Thursday 23rd March - Anders - MOVED TO 16h00 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
<br />
[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
<br />
After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
<br />
In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
<br />
[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#** Christophe suggests the formating tool [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html GNU Indent] to respect some GNU standards<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
#*Christophe suggests [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] as documentation tools.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://www.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
Below is a list of topics that we will cover on empirical analysis. Since these topics in part also have to be elaborated from scratch, we will switch to the envisaged bi-weekly meeting, that is have roughly every two weeks one meeting. The topics below will be elaborated by the people participating in the seminar. This Thursday, Feb 2, we willl have a short meeting where we distribute the responsabilites of the tasks.<br />
<br />
On Thursday everybods needs to have a lists of his two main preferred tasks so that we make the decision on who takes over what part.<br />
<br />
We will also shortly discuss the state for the more practical directions.<br />
<br />
In any case, the meeting on Thursday should be finished after 10 - 15 minutes max.<br />
<br />
<br />
Topics on Empirical Analysis:<br />
<br />
- Statistical Analysis (hypothesis tests -- param, non-param, permutation; stability of estimates -- confidence intervals; various situations of things to test -- correlation, metric measures, binary tests etc.) Maybe follow some text-book (Sheshkin / Siegel Castellan)<br />
<br />
- Experimental Design (ANOVA and non-parametric analysis; planning of experiments; methodologies -- factorial designs, response surface methodology; follow some book: Montgomery / Dean, Voos etc.)<br />
<br />
- Exploratory data analysis (usage of plots to illustrate things ?); Take ideas here from published papers, maybe some book about exploratory data analysis..<br />
<br />
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics (overview of methods, issues); Overview of published papers plus new directions of work ..<br />
<br />
- Integration of experimental methodologies in the design of algorithms; still fuzzy, to be defined.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
<br />
We will read and discuss the book chapter by chapter. For each chapter, one person will be responsable to lead the discussion by a short presentation. However, it is expected that everybody present in the meeting has already read through the material; in fact, reading the material is important to make the meetings effective.<br />
<br />
The current schedule for the meetings is as follows.<br />
<br />
- Feb 16, Marco M.: Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
<br />
- March 23, Anders: Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
<br />
- March 29, Max: Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
<br />
- April 20, Christophe: Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
<br />
- May 4, Shervin: Performance Assessment<br />
<br />
- May 18, Prasanna: Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
<br />
- June 1, Roderich: Modeling<br />
<br />
- June 15, Alexandre: Tactics for Generalization<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th Feb - Marco M==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical Research + Exploratory Data Analysis<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
'''''Resources'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :ShouldComputerScientistsExperimentMore.pdf|Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? ]] by Walter F. Tichy<br />
* [http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php R Graph Gallery] A gallery of graphs that can be created using the R Graphic Engine.<br />
<br />
'''''Slides'''''<br />
<br><br />
* [[Media :SlidesEDA.pdf| Empirical research & exploratory data analysis ]]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Rodi (I feel really very sorry for this, but its for my health)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Basic Issues in Experiment Design<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 30th March - Max Manfrin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Hypothesis Testing and Estimation<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April - Christophe==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May - Shervin==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Performance Assessment<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May -Prasanna==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Explaining Performance: Interactions and Dependencies<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June -Roderich==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Modeling<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June -Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Tactics for Generalization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
N.A.<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Robotics_weekly_meetings&diff=3499
Robotics weekly meetings
2006-02-20T14:22:25Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Wednesday 1st March - Shervin */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab<br />
# '''Research'''. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Lab administration.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send round material to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Previous Meetings==<br />
<br />
See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 25th January - Anders ==<br />
<br />
This meeting is going to be a bit technical.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Simulation<br />
#* TwoDee: Philosophy, limitations and implementation<br />
#* Discussion on simulation<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
No reading is required, but I would recommend that people interested in or working with simulation to read Jacobi's [http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~wizard/AM04/_I_Articles/11_csrp457.ps.Z "Evolutionary Robotics and the Radical Envelope-of-Noise Hypothesis" (.ps.Z)], (1997), Journal of Adaptive Behavior vol. 6, No. 2, 325-368.<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
Rehan<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Alc_robots_and_simulation.pdf |Download presentation (.pdf)]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 1st Febuary - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
*<br />
This week I am going to give a "VERY INFORMAL" (please note the "informal") presentation on some work I'm currently doing on the evolution of signaling using Evolutionary Robotics methods. Note that, the meeting will be strictly focused on the description of my experiments (which, unfortunately for me, they are not very successful at the moment). So, if you are not interested in listening my sorrowful talk, you can certainly miss it.<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 8th February - Christos ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* '''Christos:''' Given that I do not have something completely new to present, I will discuss 2-3 intresting points that came out of the work presented at the previous talk. I will also complement Elio's talk discussing a possible interesting scenario. Some ideas for my future work will also be given.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* '''Anders:''' Fixed-point: How to handle precision arithmetic on the s-bot without the use of floats/doubles.<br />
#* '''Rodi and Anders:''' Cooperative transport of an object on a pallet, status and ideas. <br />
#* '''Alex:''' proudly announces that it is possible to detect reliably a direction pointed by a robot using visual communication (LED-camera) <br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Elio<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 15th February - Marco ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
*'''Marco''': I will briefly present the Swarmanoid project: goals, structure and allocated resources (15 minutes max, everybody invited, also optimization people, so that everybody is aware of Swarmanoid).<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 22nd February - Roderich ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
* Roderich would like to (prepare and) rehearse his talk "Self-assembly of Mobile Robots - From Swarm-bot to Super-mechano Colony" to be held on March 7, 2006 at the 9th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS-9, Tokyo.<br />
<br />
The talk will be quick and can be followed without reading the paper (see link).<br />
<br />
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~rgross/reading_material.pdf<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D, Thomas<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 1st March - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D, Thomas<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Robotics_weekly_meetings&diff=3498
Robotics weekly meetings
2006-02-20T14:21:50Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Wednesday 22nd February - Roderich */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab<br />
# '''Research'''. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Lab administration.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send round material to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Previous Meetings==<br />
<br />
See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 25th January - Anders ==<br />
<br />
This meeting is going to be a bit technical.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Simulation<br />
#* TwoDee: Philosophy, limitations and implementation<br />
#* Discussion on simulation<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
No reading is required, but I would recommend that people interested in or working with simulation to read Jacobi's [http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~wizard/AM04/_I_Articles/11_csrp457.ps.Z "Evolutionary Robotics and the Radical Envelope-of-Noise Hypothesis" (.ps.Z)], (1997), Journal of Adaptive Behavior vol. 6, No. 2, 325-368.<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
Rehan<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Alc_robots_and_simulation.pdf |Download presentation (.pdf)]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 1st Febuary - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
*<br />
This week I am going to give a "VERY INFORMAL" (please note the "informal") presentation on some work I'm currently doing on the evolution of signaling using Evolutionary Robotics methods. Note that, the meeting will be strictly focused on the description of my experiments (which, unfortunately for me, they are not very successful at the moment). So, if you are not interested in listening my sorrowful talk, you can certainly miss it.<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 8th February - Christos ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* '''Christos:''' Given that I do not have something completely new to present, I will discuss 2-3 intresting points that came out of the work presented at the previous talk. I will also complement Elio's talk discussing a possible interesting scenario. Some ideas for my future work will also be given.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* '''Anders:''' Fixed-point: How to handle precision arithmetic on the s-bot without the use of floats/doubles.<br />
#* '''Rodi and Anders:''' Cooperative transport of an object on a pallet, status and ideas. <br />
#* '''Alex:''' proudly announces that it is possible to detect reliably a direction pointed by a robot using visual communication (LED-camera) <br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Elio<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 15th February - Marco ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
*'''Marco''': I will briefly present the Swarmanoid project: goals, structure and allocated resources (15 minutes max, everybody invited, also optimization people, so that everybody is aware of Swarmanoid).<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 22nd February - Roderich ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
* Roderich would like to (prepare and) rehearse his talk "Self-assembly of Mobile Robots - From Swarm-bot to Super-mechano Colony" to be held on March 7, 2006 at the 9th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS-9, Tokyo.<br />
<br />
The talk will be quick and can be followed without reading the paper (see link).<br />
<br />
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~rgross/reading_material.pdf<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D, Thomas<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 1st March - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3497
Main Page
2006-02-20T14:20:37Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
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* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
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== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
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* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
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* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
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** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
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* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
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=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
<br />
* '''Software'''<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
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* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
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<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Robotics_and_AI_conferences,_journals_and_impact_factors&diff=3496
Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors
2006-02-20T14:17:05Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* Journals */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Please''' take a look at the discussion page, Alex.<br />
<br />
== Conferences ==<br />
<br />
[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/impact.html Impact factors for conference (data is from 2003)]<br />
<br />
=== 2006 ===<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2<br />
! Name !! Location !! Dates !! Submission deadline !! URL <br />
|-<br />
| EuroGP/EvoCOP/EvoWorkshops2006 || Budapest || NA || 2005-11-11 || http://evonet.lri.fr/eurogp2006<br />
|- <br />
| 3rd IEEE Conference On Intelligent Systems || Westminster || NA || 2005-12-12 || http://ieeeis06.wmin.ac.uk/<br />
|- <br />
| AISB'06 Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems || Bristol || NA || 2006-01-13 || http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/planque/AISB<br />
|- <br />
| GECCO 2006 || Seattle || NA || 2006-01-18 || http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2006/<br />
|- <br />
| IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium || Indianapolis || NA || 2006-01-21 || http://www.computelligence.org/sis/index.php<br />
|- <br />
| DARS - The 8th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems || Minnesota || NA || 2006-01-22 || http://dars06.cs.umn.edu/<br />
|- <br />
| ALAMAS 2006 - 6th European Symposium on Adaptive Learning Agents and MAS || Brussels || 2006-04-03â>04 || 2006-01-30 || http://como.vub.ac.be/alamas2006/<br />
|- <br />
| IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence || Vancouver || NA || 2006-01-31 || http://www.wcci2006.org/<br />
|- <br />
| IEEE 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems || Prague || NA || 2006-01-31 || http://www.action-m.com/dis2006/<br />
|- <br />
| 2006 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference || Philadelphia || NA || 2006-02-01 || http://roboticsconference.org<br />
|- <br />
| (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems || Beijing || NA || 2006-02-15 || http://www.iros2006.org<br />
|- <br />
| WAFR 2006, Seventh International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics || New York || NA || 2006-02-15 || http://www.wafr.org/<br />
|- <br />
| 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'06) || Boston || 2006-06-16â>20 || 2006-02-16 || http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2006/aaai06.html<br />
|- <br />
| Fifteenth Dutch-Belgian Conference on Machine Learning (BENELEARN'06) || Gent || 2006-05-11â>12 || 2006-02-17 || http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/benelearn2006<br />
|- <br />
| IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics || Taipei || 2006-10-08->11 || 2006-03-01 || http://ins.cn.nctu.edu.tw/smc2006/index.htm<br />
|- <br />
| ANTS 2006 || Bruxelles || NA || 2006-03-19 || http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2006/<br />
|- <br />
| SAB - From Animals to Animats 9 - Simulation of Adaptive Behavior '06 || Rome || 2006-09-25->30 || 2006-03-20 || http://www.isab.org/sab06<br />
|- <br />
| PPSN - Parallel Problem Soving from Nature || Reykjavik || NA || 2006-03-27 || http://ppsn2006.raunvis.hi.is<br />
|- <br />
| International Conference on Natural Computation || Xi'an || 2006-09-24â>28 || 2006-04-15 || http://www.icnc-fskd2006.org/index.htm<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== 2007 ===<br />
<br />
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2<br />
! Name !! Location !! Dates !! Submission deadline !! URL <br />
|-<br />
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence || India || NA || 2006-06-30 || http://www.ijcai.org<br />
|-<br />
| IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation || Rome || 2007-04-10->14 || 2006-09-15 || http://www.icra07.org/<br />
|-<br />
| Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI-2007) + 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS07) || Honolulu || NA || NA || http://ieee-cis.org/page/?sec=8&sub=4<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Journals ==<br />
None listed so far.</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Access_to_Digital_Libraries&diff=3495
Access to Digital Libraries
2006-02-20T14:16:54Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
<hr />
<div> ULB has NO general access to any of the (for us) most interesting collections: IEEE xPlore, ACM digital library.<br />
<br />
<br />
The list of the journals accessible online when using IP addresses internal to the ULB network is available on the Internet at [http://www.ulb.ac.be/bibliotheques/bst/ http://www.ulb.ac.be/bibliotheques/bst/] or [http://www.ulb.ac.be/bibliotheques/bst/bst_per.html http://www.ulb.ac.be/bibliotheques/bst/bst_per.html]<br />
There you can search and find out whether the journal you are interested in is available or not. As there are some 3000 titles, links can be broken as webmasters of ULB do not check them all the time. If you find a broken link the best you can do is to let them know and they will fix it.<br />
<br />
[http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi Impact factors for journels] - The link works only from within the ULB.<br />
<br />
== Elsevier: Journals in Computer Science category ==<br />
<br />
ULB has access to approximately 50% of Elsevier titles. To check which ones are available to us the only way is to go to http://www.elsevier.com, click on "Journals" and then search. Under the "Computer Science" category we have:<br />
<br />
<br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505601/description#description Artificial Intelligence], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505626/description#description Cognition], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/522767/description#description Cognitive Brain Research], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620194/description#description Cognitive Science], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/841/description#description Neural Networks], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505628/description#description Neurocomputing], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505617/description#description Parallel Computing], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/328/description#description Pattern Recognition], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505619/description#description Pattern Recognition Letters], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505714/description#description Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena],<br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505622/description#description Robotics and Autonomous Systems],<br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505625/description#description Theoretical Computer Science].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Springer-Link ==<br />
<br />
ULB has access to several titles of Springer-Link collection. To check which ones are available to us the only way is to go to http://www.springerlink.com and then search. Some of the journals we have access to:<br />
<br />
<br />
4OR,<br />
JoH,<br />
JMMA,<br />
International journal of parallel programming.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journal]<br />
<br />
[http://www.bib.ulb.ac.be/BIB/per_jstor_info.htm Journal Storage (200 journals)]<br />
<br />
[http://www.bib.ulb.ac.be/BIB/per_adb.htm Article Database (18000 periodicals)]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Phd022702s.gif||]]</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Access_to_Digital_Libraries&diff=3494
Access to Digital Libraries
2006-02-20T14:15:17Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
ULB has NO general access to any of the (for us) most interesting collections: IEEE xPlore, ACM digital library.<br />
<br />
<br />
The list of the journals accessible online when using IP addresses internal to the ULB network is available on the Internet at [http://www.ulb.ac.be/bibliotheques/bst/ http://www.ulb.ac.be/bibliotheques/bst/] or [http://www.ulb.ac.be/bibliotheques/bst/bst_per.html http://www.ulb.ac.be/bibliotheques/bst/bst_per.html]<br />
There you can search and find out whether the journal you are interested in is available or not. As there are some 3000 titles, links can be broken as webmasters of ULB do not check them all the time. If you find a broken link the best you can do is to let them know and they will fix it.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Elsevier: Journals in Computer Science category ==<br />
<br />
ULB has access to approximately 50% of Elsevier titles. To check which ones are available to us the only way is to go to http://www.elsevier.com, click on "Journals" and then search. Under the "Computer Science" category we have:<br />
<br />
<br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505601/description#description Artificial Intelligence], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505626/description#description Cognition], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/522767/description#description Cognitive Brain Research], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620194/description#description Cognitive Science], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/841/description#description Neural Networks], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505628/description#description Neurocomputing], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505617/description#description Parallel Computing], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/328/description#description Pattern Recognition], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505619/description#description Pattern Recognition Letters], <br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505714/description#description Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena],<br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505622/description#description Robotics and Autonomous Systems],<br />
* [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505625/description#description Theoretical Computer Science].<br />
<br />
<br />
== Springer-Link ==<br />
<br />
ULB has access to several titles of Springer-Link collection. To check which ones are available to us the only way is to go to http://www.springerlink.com and then search. Some of the journals we have access to:<br />
<br />
<br />
4OR,<br />
JoH,<br />
JMMA,<br />
International journal of parallel programming.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journal]<br />
<br />
[http://www.bib.ulb.ac.be/BIB/per_jstor_info.htm Journal Storage (200 journals)]<br />
<br />
[http://www.bib.ulb.ac.be/BIB/per_adb.htm Article Database (18000 periodicals)]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Phd022702s.gif||]]</div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3493
Main Page
2006-02-20T14:10:08Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
<div id="Top"></div><br />
{| cellspacing="20" cellpadding="5" align=center <br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc1 | Practicalities]]</h1><br />
* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]] <br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Information for students]] <br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful informations]] (menu, pizza, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<br />
<h1>[[#anc2 | Research]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]] (S-Bots, Software, Links)<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_2 | Optimization]] (Links)<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries.html IRIDIA reports]<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars IRIDIA seminars]<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_3 | Publications]] (IRIDIA reports, digital libraries)<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_4 | Other seminars]] <br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<br />
<h1>[[#anc3 | Infrastructure]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>Weekly meetings</h1><br />
* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= Adding information =<br />
<br />
A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed.<br />
<br />
For more information on the Wiki mark-up language see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page. When you become good at it, you can make cool looking pages.<br />
<br />
= Detailed topics =<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
<br />
* '''Software'''<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
<br />
* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3492
Main Page
2006-02-20T14:08:37Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
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<div id="Top"></div><br />
{| cellspacing="20" cellpadding="5" align=center <br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc1 | Practicalities]]</h1><br />
* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]] <br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Information for students]] <br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful informations]] (menu, pizza, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<br />
<h1>[[#anc2 | Research]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]] (S-Bots, Software, Links)<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_2 | Optimization]] (Links)<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_3 | Publications]] (IRIDIA reports, digital libraries)<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars IRIDIA seminars]<br />
* [[#anc2_4 | Other seminars]] <br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<br />
<h1>[[#anc3 | Infrastructure]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>Weekly meetings</h1><br />
* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= Adding information =<br />
<br />
A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed.<br />
<br />
For more information on the Wiki mark-up language see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page. When you become good at it, you can make cool looking pages.<br />
<br />
= Detailed topics =<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
<br />
* '''Software'''<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
<br />
* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3491
Main Page
2006-02-20T13:53:32Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
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{| cellspacing="20" cellpadding="5" align=center <br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc1 | Practicalities]]</h1><br />
* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]] <br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Information for students]] <br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful informations]] (menu, pizza, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<br />
<h1>[[#anc2 | Research]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]] (S-Bots, Software, Links)<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_2 | Optimization]] (Links)<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_3 | Publications]] (IRIDIA reports, digital libraries)<br />
* [[#anc2_4 | Seminars]] (at IRIDIA, or outside)<br />
<br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<br />
<h1>[[#anc3 | Infrastructure]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>Weekly meetings</h1><br />
* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= Adding information =<br />
<br />
A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed.<br />
<br />
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<br />
= Detailed topics =<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
<br />
* '''Software'''<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
<br />
* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3490
Main Page
2006-02-20T13:50:45Z
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{| cellspacing="20" cellpadding="5" align=center <br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc1 | Practicalities]]</h1><br />
* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]] <br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Information for students]] <br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful informations]] (menu, pizza, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<br />
<h1>[[#anc2 | Research]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]]<br />
** S-Bots<br />
** Software<br />
** Links<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_2 | Optimization]]<br />
** Links<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_3 | Publications]] (IRIDIA reports, digital libraries)<br />
* [[#anc2_4 | Seminars]] (at IRIDIA, or outside)<br />
<br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc3 | Infrastructure]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>Weekly meetings</h1><br />
* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= Adding information =<br />
<br />
A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed.<br />
<br />
For more information on the Wiki mark-up language see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page. When you become good at it, you can make cool looking pages.<br />
<br />
= Detailed topics =<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
<br />
* '''Software'''<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
<br />
* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3489
Main Page
2006-02-20T13:49:59Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
<div id="Top"></div><br />
{| cellspacing="20" cellpadding="5" align=center <br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc1 | Practicalities]]</h1><br />
* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]] <br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Information for students]] <br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful informations]] (menu, pizza, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<br />
<h1>[[#anc2 | Research]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]]<br />
** S-Bots<br />
** Software<br />
** Links<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_2 | Optimization]]<br />
** Links<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_3 | Publications]] (IRIDIA reports, digital libraries)<br />
* [[#anc2_4 | Seminars]] (at IRIDIA, or outside)<br />
<br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc3 | Infrastructure]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>Weekly meetings</h1><br />
* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= Adding information =<br />
<br />
A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed.<br />
<br />
For more information on the Wiki mark-up language see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page. When you become good at it, you can make cool looking pages.<br />
<br />
= Detailed topics =<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
<br />
* '''Software'''<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
<br />
* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page_Test&diff=3430
Main Page Test
2006-02-15T09:49:12Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> */</p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
<div id="Top"></div><br />
{| cellspacing="20" cellpadding="5" align=center <br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc1 | Practical Things]]</h1><br />
* [[#anc1_1 | Brussels]] (moving, surviving, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Students]] (information, administration, funding, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful stuff]] (menu, pizza, intranet for employees, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc2 | Research]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]]<br />
** S-Bots<br />
** Software<br />
** Links<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_2 | Optimization]]<br />
** Links<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_3 | Publications]] (IRIDIA reports, digital libraries)<br />
* [[#anc2_4 | Seminars]] (at IRIDIA, or outside)<br />
<br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc3 | Infrastructure]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>Weekly meetings</h1><br />
* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= Adding information =<br />
<br />
A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed.<br />
<br />
For more information on the Wiki mark-up language see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page. When you become good at it, you can make cool looking pages.<br />
<br />
= Detailed topics =<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc1">Practical Things</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful stuff'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
<br />
* '''Software'''<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
<br />
* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page_Test&diff=3429
Main Page Test
2006-02-15T09:48:51Z
<p>Stuetzle: /* <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> */</p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
<div id="Top"></div><br />
{| cellspacing="20" cellpadding="5" align=center <br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc1 | Practical Things]]</h1><br />
* [[#anc1_1 | Brussels]] (moving, surviving, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Students]] (information, administration, funding, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful stuff]] (menu, pizza, intranet for employees, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc2 | Research]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]]<br />
** S-Bots<br />
** Software<br />
** Links<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_2 | Optimization]]<br />
** Links<br />
<br />
* [[#anc2_3 | Publications]] (IRIDIA reports, digital libraries)<br />
* [[#anc2_4 | Seminars]] (at IRIDIA, or outside)<br />
<br />
|- <br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #BBBBFF"|<br />
<h1>[[#anc3 | Infrastructure]]</h1><br />
<br />
* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc...)<br />
<br />
|valign="top" width="50%" style="border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background-color: #FFEEBB"|<br />
<h1>Weekly meetings</h1><br />
* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= Adding information =<br />
<br />
A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed.<br />
<br />
For more information on the Wiki mark-up language see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page. When you become good at it, you can make cool looking pages.<br />
<br />
= Detailed topics =<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc1">Practical Things</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful stuff'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
<br />
* '''Software'''<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
<br />
* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
<br />
* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
<br />
=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==<br />
<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
* <div id="anc3_1">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
<br />
<br />
<center>[[#Top | Back to top]]</center></div>
Stuetzle
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Optimization_Group_Meetings&diff=3226
Optimization Group Meetings
2006-01-23T12:25:53Z
<p>Stuetzle: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
The goal of the optimization weekly meeting is to facilitate and support the development and conduct of research in optimization at IRIDIA. The meeting will help you in your efforts to develop research ideas, gives feedback on your work and serves as a means for disseminating your research results.<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work in optimization is going on in the lab.<br />
# '''Research'''. Share research results. Discussions of general interest. Literature study on specific topics. Inspiration for new research. Reports on conference visits.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Optimization group administration. Discussion of practical problems. Guidelines for software etc. <br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Optimization group administration (0 - 30 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send the article/handout to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' (yet to be finalized) take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Thursdays at 11.00 AM''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Thursday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake (yet to be finalized) for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Friday 28th October - Prasanna BALAPRAKASH==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Short Introduction to the optimization group weekly meeting'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Local Search under Uncertainty<br />
#* Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem as a case study<br />
#* Overview of the state-of-the-art local search techniques to tackle uncertainty<br />
#* Empirical estimation based local search to tackle uncertainty<br />
# '''Optimization Group Admin'''<br />
#* Structure for the weekly meeting<br />
#* Time schedule for the Optimization weekly meeting<br />
#* Wiki page administration<br />
#* Next week...<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
-NA-<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* Sharing Code: Writing code in a way such that others can understand (with comments where ever possible). This helps to share the code with others.<br />
* For the moment, the weekly meeting is scheduled on Thursdays at 11.00 AM. <br />
* The person, who is giving the talk, should present the field/area in which he/she considers himself/herself as an expert for about 5 mins. <br />
* We should agree on the coding language and compilers('''if possible'''). At the moment we are using Mauro's R "code" for statistical analysis and parameter tuning. This code will be made available in this wiki. <br />
* Skripts for doing useful things will be collected and also be made available in this wiki.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Media :EmpiricalLocalSearch.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 3nd November - Max MANFRIN==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction / General interest discussion'''<br />
#* Brief introduction on Max background<br />
#* IRIDIA Cluster <br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/IRIDIA_cluster_architecture The architecture of the IRIDIA cluster]<br />
#** The Sun Grid Engine queueing system<br />
#** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster Policies for submission and execution of the jobs]<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Survey on Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization<br />
#* Proposal of a parallel design for ACO algorithm to solve Rich Vehicle Routing Problems<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://landau.ulb.ac.be/~mmanfrin/media/pdf/MPI-overview.pdf An overview on Parallel Computing and Message Passing] Seminar at IRDIA - ULB, Brussels, Belgium, January 26, 2005<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Christophe Philemotte<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
This talk is going to be given as a IRIDIA seminar. Therefore it will not take place on Thursday but on Wednesday. After the talk, there will be a MEETOPT discussion about the organizational matters.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
#* Field of expertise etc.<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br><br />
Christophe Philemotte <br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 17th November - Jodelson A. SABINO==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* A certain solution for the Switch Engine Assignment Problem<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
This seminar gives an overview of the algorithm presented in Jodelson's Master<br />
Degree dissertation to solve the Switch Engine Assignment Problem. This presentation <br />
start with a quick review of the problem statement (as it was presented in a previous <br />
IRIDIA seminar), definition of the concept of PDP path and the solution by the RR-COMPETants <br />
algorithm.<br />
<br />
* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00070 The Problem of Railroad Yards Operational Planning]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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N.A.<br />
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==Thursday 24th November - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Stochastic Local Search, introduction and engineering of algorithms<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
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'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
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'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
This presentation explaines concisely what Stochastic Local Search is and gives some thoughts on further work in this area that should lead to what can be called "Stochastic Local Search algorithms Engineering" or, short, SLS Engineering. <br><br />
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[[Media :ORP3.2005.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Wednsday 30th November - Marco MONTES DE OCA==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Particle Swarm Optimization<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
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'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
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[[Media :Slides.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
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'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br />
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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO for short) was first inspired by the flocking behavior of birds, although it also has roots in some theories of social adaptation.<br />
PSO is a population-based optimization technique in which each individual or "particle" represents a solution to a continuous optimization problem. Associated<br />
with each particle, there is a velocity vector that changes according to its own best past performance and that of its neighbors. In this way, particles "fly"<br />
over the search space resembling the movement of insects in a swarm.<br />
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After its first publication, PSO has attracted the interest of a growing research community because it is conceptually simple, technically easy to implement, <br />
and has been successfully applied to many problems.<br />
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In this meeting, a brief overview of what has been done in PSO research and possible future work will be presented.<br />
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[http://www.swarmintelligence.org/tutorials.php PSO introductory tutorial]<br />
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==Thursday 8th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 1<br />
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'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00072 Click here for more details]<br />
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[[Media :Roli Talk Dec.4perpage.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
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==Friday 9th December - Andrea ROLI==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* An introduction to constraint programming (for metaheuristic-minded researchers) -- Part 2<br />
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'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars/index.php?x=00073 Click here for more details]<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco DORIGO, Thomas STÃTZLE<br />
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==Thursday 12th January - Tom LENAERTS==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Evolutionary Transitions in Solution Complexity<br />
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'''''Abstract'''''<br><br />
Recently, Evolutionary Biology has proposed a generalised theory for the origin of complexity in biological systems. This theory, referred to as Evolutionary Transition Theory, provides a description on how complexity could have arisen out of the interaction of simple components. A well-known example is the transition from single cell to multi-cellularity. As evolution itself, this theory provides a metaphor for optimisation and learning where complex solutions are constructed through the evolutionary combination of partial ones. This talk discusses a new evolutionary algorithm based on this metaphor. We show that, in the context of constraint satisfaction problems, this metaphor provides a very useful technique to find solutions. Moreover, the results of this basic, unoptimised algorithm are close to what is observed in other highly-adjusted evolutionary techniques. As a consequence, it provides an important foundation for the further investigation of compositional algorithms in the context of optimisation<br />
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==Thursday 19th January - General Discussion (Optimization Library)==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Outcome of the discussion'''<br />
#*The C programming language will be selected for the implementation and development. We'll follow the C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools ([http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html Status of C99 features in GCC]). The standard compiler is the one provided in the most recent stable version of Debian.<br />
#**[http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139 Are you Ready For C99?] <br />
#**[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99 Open source development using C99]<br />
#* We will have a look at [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU coding standards] and if everyone feels it is good then they will be adopted.<br />
#*[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] will be adopted as the revision control system (Max will make a brief study) <br />
#*The format of result files should be standardised (Mauro, Thomas and Prasanna will come up with a format which should be discussed later).<br />
#*Common scripts have to be developed to extract required information from the results file should be developed. Mauro, Thomas, and Prasanna make an initial list of scripts to be developped.<br />
#*Mauro will have a look at COMET software libraries book and Prasanna will check about software libraries, in general, and the features they provide. <br />
#**Short term goal - sharing code to save the development time<br />
#**Long term goal - IRIDIA Optimization Library<br />
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==Thursday 26th January - Thomas STÃTZLE==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Introduction'''<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Empirical analysis of stochastic algorithms by measuring run-time distributions<br />
# '''MEETOPT Admin (10-15 mins)'''<br />
#* Follow-up of the meeting about optimization libraries, tools etc. of the previous week<br />
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'''''Linked Presentations'''''<br />
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'''''Abstract and Reading Material'''''<br><br />
We start now the part of presentations / discussions on specific topics. The first topic to be discussed in a number of presentations / discussions is the '''Empirical Analysis of Algorithms, in particular SLS Algorithms'''. In this series we will discuss methods for their empirical analysis including run-time distributions, statistical analysis (hypothesis tests, ANOVA and alike methods), experimental design, tuning of algorithms, etc. We start this series by a presentation about the empirical analysis of algorithms through measuring run-time distributions. The presentation will be based on Chapter 4 of the book about ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' by Holger Hoos and Thomas. The slides for the presentation are available via [http://wwww.sls-book.net SLS:FA] (check for the slides and figures section). The presentation will discuss only a small selection of the most important issues presented there.<br><br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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