Formal name: Dr. P.A.N. Bosman
Function: Scientific Staff Member
Email: P.A.N.Bosman@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4238
Room: M360
Homepage: http://www.cwi.nl/~bosman
Research groups:
(SEN4) Multi-agent and adaptive computation
Research
My research concerns the design and application of advanced evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to solve optimization problems that are typically complex and contain uncertainties (e.g. complex simulations). These problems often require taking a black-box optimization (BBO) perspective, i.e. (virtually) nothing is known about the optimization problem at hand. Often, the advanced EAs I study are so-called estimation-of-distribution algorithms (EDAs), in which probabilistic models are built and used to guide the search for better solutions so as to get the most out of previously performed evaluations. I study the design of advanced EAs for both single- and multi-objective optimization problems as well as for optimization problems in the presence of uncertainties, i.e. problems with stochastic and/or dynamically (i.e. over time) changing objectives. Applications include the optimization of patient flows in hospitals, the dynamic routing of vehicles for transportation purposes, dynamic pricing of goods for revenue management and (network design for) energy systems.
Career
| 2010 - | Scientific staff member SEN4 - Multi-agent and Adaptive Computation |
| 2008 - 2010 | Scientific staff member/tenure track SEN4 - Multi-agent and Adaptive Computation |
| 2006 - 2008 | Scientific staff member/postdoc SEN4 - Multi-agent and Adaptive Computation |
| 2004 - 2006 | Scientific staff member/postdoc SEN4 - Multi-agent and Adaptive Computation |
Selected Awards and Honours
| 2010 | Best Paper Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2010 |
| 2009 | BNAIC 2009 (Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence) |
Selected Academic Activities
| 2009 | Chair program committee Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - [GECCO] - EDA track |
| 2009 - | Member editorial board Journal Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing - [IJAMC] |
| 2008 - | Project leader Project "Bricks" - national project; "Basic Research in Informatics for Creating the Knowledge Society" |
| 2006 | Chair program committee Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - [GECCO] - EDA track |
Selected Publications
| P.A.N. Bosman. The anticipated mean shift and cluster registration in mixture-based EDAs for multi-objective optimization. Proceedings of ACM Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2010, 351–358, 2010. |
| A.K. Hutzschenreuter, P.A.N. Bosman, J.A. La Poutré. Evolutionary multiobjective optimization for dynamic hospital resource management. Proceedings of Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5467 , 320–334, 2009. |
| P.A.N. Bosman, J. Grahl. Matching inductive search bias and problem structure in continuous estimation-of-distribution algorithms. European Journal of Operational Research 185, 1246–1264, 2008. |
| P.A.N. Bosman, J.A. La Poutré. Learning and anticipation in online dynamic optimization with evolutionary algorithms: The stochastic case. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1165–1172, 2007. |
