GECCO-UP 2012 - 1st workshop on Understanding Problems (GECCO-UP)

The 1st workshop on Understanding Problems (GECCO-UP) is intended to establish a forum for the discussion and exploration of methods for the analysis and synthesis of optimisation problems through both theoretical and experimental methods. In addition to creating a session catering for the presentation of new methods related to problem understanding, the workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to review existing methods, submit position papers discussing potential frameworks and propose future areas of interesting research. Having reviewed the recent literature relating to optimisation problems the following key areas of active research will be of specific interest (although submissions are not limited to these areas):
- creation of test problems;
- experimental methods for analysing and detecting problem landscapes;
- identifiers and metrics for describing problem features;
- spatial descriptors;
- problem space visualisation;
- difficulty and complexity analysis;
- analysis of dynamic problems;
- analysis of noisy problems;
- construction of problem taxonomies and theoretical foundations.