Will you be at GECCO 2026 and are intrigued by fitness landscapes? Come see our workshop on Saturday morning, in Lisbon and online. We can't wait 👾⛰️ Nada Veerapen Arnaud Liefooghe

Great turnout and 9 fantastic speakers at the Workshop on Landscape-Aware Heuristic Search GECCO 2025 on this first morning of #GECCO2023

Awesome light on Arran a week ago

Having an inspiring research visit with the trailblazing evolutionary intelligence group at CWI Amsterdam led by @PeterANBosman 🏔⚡️

Fitness landscapes!! Friends, our landscape-aware heuristic search workshop will be running again at GECCO 2024 (hybrid). Can't wait to see your submissions. Yay!⚡️👾 GECCO 2026 Nada Veerapen Arnaud Liefooghe

We're excited that our paper "Where the really hard quadratic assignment problems are: the QAP-SAT instances" was accepted for EvoCOP 2024!! With Sébastien Verel and Omar Rifki. 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Evostar ENU Computing, Engineering & Built Environment

Do you or your students have a nice piece of landscapey research? Consider submitting to our hybrid-format GECCO workshop 😀🤟 (deadline April 8th) GECCO 2026

Yay! Our paper "Information Flow and Laplacian Dynamics on Local Optima Networks" was accepted at IEEE CEC 2024. A very enjoyable collab w/ Hendrik Richter from HTWK Leipzig. 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤟 ENU Computing, Engineering & Built Environment Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2401.09229

We're so excited to announce the invited speaker for our landscape workshop at GECCO this year: Marcus Gallagher. [Marcus Gallagher] Marcus has been making substantial contributions to the field of landscape analysis for over 20 years. 🪐🇦🇺🏔 Nada Veerapen Arnaud Liefooghe GECCO 2026

We are in 🇧🇪#Namur at #wivace2024 where Michel El Saliby just presented our work on "Factors Impacting 🏞️Landscape Ruggedness in 🤖Control Problems" (👉🏼 medvet.inginf.units.it/publications/2…): brilliant presentation, bravissimo the speaker!

All the moons of the year 2023

Didn't quite make the GECCO submission deadline? No worries: submit to our GECCO fitness landscape workshop (deadline in April)!! Pictured: a landscape navigation approach. Nada Veerapen Arnaud Liefooghe GECCO 2025

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An English Country Garden

The Bat Nebula, 500 light years away from Earth! 🦇