| 2025 | EvoCOP | Meta-learning of Univariate Estimation-of-Distribution Algorithms for Pseudo-Boolean Problems. | Olivier Goudet, Adrien Goffon, Frdric Saubion, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2025 | EvoCOP | LON/D - Sub-problem Landscape Analysis in Decomposition-Based Multi-objective Optimization. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Gabriela Ochoa, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2025 | GECCO | Local Optima Networks for Constrained Search Spaces. | Jonathan E. Fieldsend, Arnaud Liefooghe, Katherine M. Malan, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2025 | GECCO | Spectral Walsh analysis and surrogate-assisted optimization: example of the bus stops spacing problem. | Valentin Vendi, Sbastien Vrel, Cyril Fonlupt |
| 2025 | IJCCI | Scaling Up Pareto Local Optimal Solutions Networks: Modelling Multi-objective Landscapes. | Gabriela Ochoa, Hernn E. Aguirre, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2024 | EvoCOP | Sparse Surrogate Model for Optimization: Example of the Bus Stops Spacing Problem. | Valentin Vendi, Sbastien Vrel, Cyril Fonlupt |
| 2024 | EvoCOP | Where the Really Hard Quadratic Assignment Problems Are: The QAP-SAT Instances. | Sbastien Vrel, Sarah L. Thomson, Omar Rifki |
| 2024 | GECCO | Emergence of Strategies for Univariate Estimation-of-Distribution Algorithms with Evolved Neural Networks. | Olivier Goudet, Adrien Goffon, Frdric Saubion, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2024 | PPSN | Contrasting the Landscapes of Feature Selection Under Different Machine Learning Models. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Ryoji Tanabe, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2024 | PPSN | Funnels in Multi-objective Fitness Landscapes. | Gabriela Ochoa, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2023 | EMO | Feature-Based Benchmarking of Distance-Based Multi/Many-objective Optimisation Problems: A Machine Learning Perspective. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Tinkle Chugh, Jonathan E. Fieldsend, Richard Allmendinger, Kaisa Miettinen |
| 2023 | GECCO | Fourier Transform-based Surrogates for Permutation Problems. | Francisco Chicano, Bilel Derbel, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2023 | GECCO | Pareto Local Optimal Solutions Networks with Compression, Enhanced Visualization and Expressiveness. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Gabriela Ochoa, Sbastien Vrel, Bilel Derbel |
| 2023 | GECCO | On the Global Structure of PUBOi Fitness Landscapes. | Sara Tari, Gabriela Ochoa, Matthieu Basseur, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2023 | IJCCI | MOEA/D with Adaptive Mutation Operator Based on Walsh Decomposition: Application to Nuclear Reactor Control Optimization. | Baptiste Gasse, Sbastien Vrel, Jean-Michel Do |
| 2022 | GECCO | Cost-vs-accuracy of sampling in multi-objective combinatorial exploratory landscape analysis. | Raphal Cosson, Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Hernn E. Aguirre, Qingfu Zhang, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2022 | PPSN | Fractal Dimension and Perturbation Strength: A Local Optima Networks View. | Sarah L. Thomson, Gabriela Ochoa, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2021 | GECCO | Paradiseo: from a modular framework for evolutionary computation to the automated design of metaheuristics: 22 years of Paradiseo. | Johann Dro, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Marc Schoenauer, Juan Julin Merelo Guervs, Alexandre Quemy, Benjamin Bouvier, Jan Gmys |
| 2021 | GECCO | Landscape features and automated algorithm selection for multi-objective interpolated continuous optimisation problems. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Benjamin Lacroix, Alexandru-Ciprian Zavoianu, John A. W. McCall |
| 2020 | GECCO | Fitness landscape analysis to understand and predict algorithm performance for single- and multi-objective optimization. | Bilel Derbel, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2020 | GECCO | Surrogate-assisted asynchronous multiobjective algorithm for nuclear power plant operations. | V. Drouet, Sbastien Vrel, Jean-Michel Do |
| 2020 | GECCO | Bayesian CMA-ES: a new approach. | Eric Benhamou, David Saltiel, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2020 | GECCO | Surrogate-assisted multi-objective combinatorial optimization based on decomposition and walsh basis. | Geoffrey Pruvost, Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Qingfu Zhang |
| 2020 | PPSN | On Stochastic Fitness Landscapes: Local Optimality and Fitness Landscape Analysis for Stochastic Search Operators. | Brahim Aboutaib, Sbastien Vrel, Cyril Fonlupt, Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Belad Ahiod |
| 2020 | PPSN | Dominance, Indicator and Decomposition Based Search for Multi-objective QAP: Landscape Analysis and Automated Algorithm Selection. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Bilel Derbel, Hernn E. Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2019 | EMO | Estimating Relevance of Variables for Effective Recombination. | Taishi Ito, Hernn E. Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Arnaud Liefooghe, Bilel Derbel, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2019 | EMO | Approximating Pareto Set Topology by Cubic Interpolation on Bi-objective Problems. | Yuri Marca, Hernn E. Aguirre, Sal Zapotecas Martnez, Arnaud Liefooghe, Bilel Derbel, Sbastien Vrel, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2019 | FOGA | New features for continuous exploratory landscape analysis based on the SOO tree. | Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Hernn E. Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2019 | GECCO | Walsh functions as surrogate model for pseudo-boolean optimization problems. | Florian Leprtre, Sbastien Vrel, Cyril Fonlupt, Virginie Marion |
| 2019 | GECCO | Studying com partmental models interpolation to estimate MOEAs population size. | Hugo Monzn, Hernn E. Aguirre, Sbastien Vrel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Bilel Derbel, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2019 | GECCO | Dynamic compartmental models for algorithm analysis and population size estimation. | Hugo Monzn, Hernn E. Aguirre, Sbastien Vrel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Bilel Derbel, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2018 | GECCO | A set-oriented MOEA/D. | Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Qingfu Zhang, Sbastien Vrel, Hernn E. Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2018 | GECCO | SIALAC benchmark: on the design of adaptive algorithms for traffic lights problems. | Florian Leprtre, Cyril Fonlupt, Sbastien Vrel, Virginie Marion |
| 2018 | GECCO | Dominance, epsilon, and hypervolume local optimal sets in multi-objective optimization, and how to tell the difference. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Manuel Lpez-Ibez, Lus Paquete, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2018 | GECCO | Pareto dominance-based MOEAs on problems with difficult pareto set topologies. | Yuri Marca, Hernn E. Aguirre, Sal Zapotecas Martnez, Arnaud Liefooghe, Bilel Derbel, Sbastien Vrel, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2018 | GECCO | Studying MOEAs dynamics and their performance using a three compartmental model. | Hugo Monzn, Hernn E. Aguirre, Sbastien Vrel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Bilel Derbel, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2018 | GECCO | Fitness landscape analysis around the optimum in computational protein design. | David Simoncini, Sophie Barbe, Thomas Schiex, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2018 | GECCO | Multifractality and dimensional determinism in local optima networks. | Sarah L. Thomson, Sbastien Vrel, Gabriela Ochoa, Nadarajen Veerapen, David E. Cairns |
| 2018 | PPSN | On Pareto Local Optimal Solutions Networks. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Bilel Derbel, Sbastien Vrel, Manuel Lpez-Ibez, Hernn E. Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2018 | PPSN | A Surrogate Model Based on Walsh Decomposition for Pseudo-Boolean Functions. | Sbastien Vrel, Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Hernn E. Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2018 | PPSN | Sampling Local Optima Networks of Large Combinatorial Search Spaces: The QAP Case. | Sbastien Vrel, Fabio Daolio, Gabriela Ochoa, Marco Tomassini |
| 2017 | EMO | A Fitness Landscape Analysis of Pareto Local Search on Bi-objective Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problems. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Bilel Derbel, Sbastien Vrel, Hernn E. Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2017 | GECCO | Closed state model for understanding the dynamics of MOEAs. | Hugo Monzn, Hernn E. Aguirre, Sbastien Vrel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Bilel Derbel, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2017 | GECCO | Massive asynchronous master-worker EA for nuclear reactor optimization: a fitness landscape perspective. | Mathieu Muniglia, Sbastien Vrel, Jean-Charles Le Pallec, Jean-Michel Do |
| 2017 | IJCCI | Analysis of a Batch Strategy for a Master-Worker Adaptive Selection Algorithm Framework. | Christopher Jankee, Sbastien Vrel, Bilel Derbel, Cyril Fonlupt |
| 2016 | PPSN | A Fitness Cloud Model for Adaptive Metaheuristic Selection Methods. | Christopher Jankee, Sbastien Vrel, Bilel Derbel, Cyril Fonlupt |
| 2015 | EMO | A Feature-Based Performance Analysis in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Fabio Daolio, Hernn E. Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2015 | EMO | Experiments on Local Search for Bi-objective Unconstrained Binary Quadratic Programming. | Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Lus Paquete, Jin-Kao Hao |
| 2015 | GECCO | Global vs Local Search on Multi-objective NK-Landscapes: Contrasting the Impact of Problem Features. | Fabio Daolio, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Hernn E. Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2015 | GECCO | New Adaptive Selection Strategies for Distributed Adaptive Metaheuristic Selection. | Christopher Jankee, Sbastien Vrel, Bilel Derbel, Cyril Fonlupt |
| 2014 | PPSN | An Analysis on Selection for High-Resolution Approximations in Many-Objective Optimization. | Hernn E. Aguirre, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2014 | PPSN | On the Impact of Multiobjective Scalarizing Functions. | Bilel Derbel, Dimo Brockhoff, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2014 | PPSN | Local Optimal Sets and Bounded Archiving on Multi-objective NK-Landscapes with Correlated Objectives. | Manuel Lpez-Ibez, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2013 | CEC | A study on population size and selection lapse in many-objective optimization. | Hernn E. Aguirre, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2013 | GECCO | Population size and scalability in the aeseh evolutionary many-objective algorithm. | Hernn E. Aguirre, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel, Kiyoshi Tanaka |
| 2013 | GECCO | On set-based local search for multiobjective combinatorial optimization. | Matthieu Basseur, Adrien Goffon, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2013 | GECCO | Fitness landscapes and graphs: multimodularity, ruggedness and neutrality. | Sbastien Vrel |
| 2012 | GECCO | Local optima networks and the performance of iterated local search. | Fabio Daolio, Sbastien Vrel, Gabriela Ochoa, Marco Tomassini |
| 2012 | GECCO | Fitness landscapes and graphs: multimodularity, ruggedness and neutrality. | Sbastien Vrel |
| 2012 | PPSN | Local Optima Networks, Landscape Autocorrelation and Heuristic Search Performance. | Francisco Chicano, Fabio Daolio, Gabriela Ochoa, Sbastien Vrel, Marco Tomassini, Enrique Alba |
| 2011 | GECCO | DAMS: distributed adaptive metaheuristic selection. | Bilel Derbel, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2011 | GECCO | The road to VEGAS: guiding the search over neutral networks. | Marie-Elonore Marmion, Clarisse Dhaenens, Laetitia Jourdan, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2011 | GECCO | Set-based multiobjective fitness landscapes: a preliminary study. | Sbastien Vrel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Clarisse Dhaenens |
| 2010 | CEC | Local Optima Networks of the Quadratic Assignment Problem. | Fabio Daolio, Sbastien Vrel, Gabriela Ochoa, Marco Tomassini |
| 2010 | PPSN | First-Improvement vs. Best-Improvement Local Optima Networks of NK Landscapes. | Gabriela Ochoa, Sbastien Vrel, Marco Tomassini |
| 2009 | GECCO | Do not choose representation just change: an experimental study in states based EA. | Maroun Bercachi, Philippe Collard, Manuel Clergue, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2009 | GECCO | Centric selection: a way to tune the exploration/exploitation trade-off. | David Simoncini, Sbastien Vrel, Philippe Collard, Manuel Clergue |
| 2009 | GECCO | Fitness landscapes and graphs: multimodularity, ruggedness and neutrality. | Sbastien Vrel |
| 2008 | ALIFE | The Connectivity of NK Landscapes' Basins - A Network Analysis. | Sbastien Vrel, Gabriela Ochoa, Marco Tomassini |
| 2008 | GECCO | A study of NK landscapes' basins and local optima networks. | Gabriela Ochoa, Marco Tomassini, Sbastien Vrel, Christian Darabos |
| 2007 | CEC | Evolving dynamic change and exchange of genotype encoding in genetic algorithms for difficult optimization problems. | Maroun Bercachi, Philippe Collard, Manuel Clergue, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2007 | CEC | On the influence of selection operators on performances in cellular Genetic Algorithms. | David Simoncini, Philippe Collard, Sbastien Vrel, Manuel Clergue |
| 2007 | EUROGP | Density Estimation with Genetic Programming for Inverse Problem Solving. | Michael Defoin-Platel, Sbastien Vrel, Manuel Clergue, Malik Chami |
| 2007 | EUROGP | A Comprehensive View of Fitness Landscapes with Neutrality and Fitness Clouds. | Leonardo Vanneschi, Marco Tomassini, Philippe Collard, Sbastien Vrel, Yuri Pirola, Giancarlo Mauri |
| 2007 | GECCO | Fitness landscapes and problem hardness in evolutionary computation. | Leonardo Vanneschi, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2006 | EUROGP | Negative Slope Coefficient: A Measure to Characterize Genetic Programming Fitness Landscapes. | Leonardo Vanneschi, Marco Tomassini, Philippe Collard, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2006 | GECCO | Deceptiveness and neutrality the ND family of fitness landscapes. | William Beaudoin, Sbastien Vrel, Philippe Collard, Cathy Escazut |
| 2006 | GECCO | Anisotropic selection in cellular genetic algorithms. | David Simoncini, Sbastien Vrel, Philippe Collard, Manuel Clergue |
| 2006 | GECCO | Measuring the evolvability landscape to study neutrality. | Sbastien Vrel, Philippe Collard, Manuel Clergue |
| 2004 | CEC | Scuba search: when selection meets innovation. | Sbastien Vrel, Philippe Collard, Manuel Clergue |
| 2004 | ECAI | How to Use the Scuba Diving Metaphor to Solve Problems with Neutrality? | Philippe Collard, Sbastien Vrel, Manuel Clergue |
| 2004 | ECAI | Local Search Heuristics: Fitness Cloud versus Fitness Landscape. | Philippe Collard, Sbastien Vrel, Manuel Clergue |
| 2004 | GECCO | Fitness Clouds and Problem Hardness in Genetic Programming. | Leonardo Vanneschi, Manuel Clergue, Philippe Collard, Marco Tomassini, Sbastien Vrel |
| 2003 | CEC | Where are bottlenecks in NK fitness landscapes? | Sbastien Vrel, Philippe Collard, Manuel Clergue |