BBOB 2013 - International Workshop on Black Box Optimization Benchmarking 2013 (BBOB 2013)

Benchmarking of optimization algorithms is crucial to assess performance of optimizers quantitatively, understand weaknesses and strengths of each algorithm and is a compulsory path to evaluate new algorithm designs. However, this task turns out to be tedious and difficult to realize even in the single-objective case ? at least if one is willing to accomplish it in a scientifically decent and rigorous way. The BBOB 2013 workshop for real-parameter optimization, follow-up of BBOB 2009 workshop, BBOB 2010 workshop, BBOB 2012 workshop, will furnish most of this tedious task for its participants:
choice and implementation of a well-motivated single-objective benchmark function testbed,
design of an experimental set-up,
generation of data output, and
post-processing and presentation of the results in graphs and tables.