Invited talk of Thomas Bäck at the 20th International Conference on Unconventional Computing and Natural Computation
On March 13, Thomas Bäck gave an invited talk at the UCNC 2023 conference in Jacksonville, Florida. This conference brings together scientists interested in novel forms of computation, computation inspired by nature, and computational aspects of natural processes. The presentation is entitled “On the Automatic Optimization of Problem-Specific Optimization Heuristics [...]
Improved Multidisciplinary Optimization and its Practical Usage at Porsche AG
In the automotive industry, the simulation-based design and optimization of vehicle structures needs to combine requirements from a number of different engineering disciplines. Multidisciplinary optimization (MDO) is a term that is used to summarize approaches that aim at integrating all relevant disciplines and finding optimal compromises between them. Due to [...]
Predictive Analytics and Simulation for Continuous Improvement and Quality Management
Both the digitization of process and quality data as well as their processing for the purpose of process optimization and efficiency of product and process development in the context of "Industry 4.0" or "IoT = Internet of Things" are usually important core elements in every corporate strategy. One aspect of [...]
Global Sensitivity Analysis Methods for Identifying Key Parameters
In many real-world applications involving production data, simulated data, or data from experiments, one is interested in identifying the key input parameters, i.e., those (groups of) parameters that have a high influence on the output. Sensitivity analysis methods address this task by measuring the uncertainty in output based on the [...]
Machine Learning for Production Process Optimization at IOI Oleo GmbH, Witten, Germany
The German production site of IOI Oleochemical is one of the leading European providers for oleochemicals. Besides active ingredients for pharmaceutics, emollients, emulsifiers, texturizers, and a large selection of multifunctional ingredients for cosmetics, IOI Oleo GmbH provides special esters and additives for the food industry. Process auxiliaries and greases for [...]
European Artificial Intelligence Act – European Regulation of AI is on its Way
The “Proposal for Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence” – in short, the Artificial Intelligence Act – of the EU aims at regulating AI in Europe. The document is interesting, although time-consuming, to read, as it includes both a risk-based [...]
Best Paper Award at GECCO—Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
The article “Learning the Characteristics of Engineering Optimization Problems with Applications in Automotive Crash” by Fu Xing Long, Bas van Stein, Moritz Frenzel, Peter Krause, Markus Gitterle and Thomas Bäck received the best paper award in the “real-world applications” track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in Boston, [...]
Finding Fast-to-Compute Proxies for Engineering Optimization Problems
Due to their time-consuming evaluation function, requiring a simulator run, it is difficult to understand the characteristics of engineering optimization problems that make them hard for optimization algorithms. Moreover, it makes it impossible to perform many optimization runs with these problems and to tune optimization algorithms towards improving their performance [...]