Prof. Ofer Shir, Michal Horovitz : Computational Intelligence

Multi-Objective Mixed-Integer Quadratic Models: A Study on Mathematical Programming and Evolutionary Computation

Ofer M. Shir and Michael Emmerich
2025 , Published in: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (Volume: 29, Issue: 3, June 2025), Pages: 661-675.

All-Quadratic Mixed-Integer Problems: A Study on Evolution Strategies and Mathematical Programming

Guy Zepko and Ofer M. Shir
2025 , Evolutionary Computation Journal (2025) 1—27 (online first)

Correlated Geometric Mutations for Integer Evolution Strategies

Ofer M. Shir and Michael Emmerich
2025 , Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO-2025, New York, NY, USA, ACM Press (2025) 1825–1832

Foundations of Correlated Mutations for Integer Programming

Ofer M. Shir and Michael Emmerich
2025 , Proceedings of the 18th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, FOGA-2025, New York, NY, USA, ACM Press (2025) 285–296

Physics-Guided Inverse Regression for Crop Quality Assessment

David Shulman, Assaf Israeli, Yael Botnaro, Ori Margalit, Oved Tamir, Shaul Naschitz, Dan Gamrasni, Ofer M. Shir, and Itai Dattner
2024

Multi-objective mixed-integer quadratic models: A study on mathematical programming and evolutionary computation

Shir, O. M & Emmerich. M.
2024 , IEEE Trans. Evol. Comp. doi: 10.1109/TEVC.2024.3374519

Avoiding Redundant Restarts in Multimodal Global Optimization

de Nobel, J., Vermetten, D., Kononova, A.V., Shir, O.M. & Bäck, T.
2024 , In M. Affenzeller M., et al. Rds.), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Cham

Multi-Objective Mixed-Integer Quadratic Models: A Study on Mathematical Programming and Evolutionary Computation

Ofer M. Shir and Michael Emmerich
2024 , This paper appears in: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation On page(s): 1-15 Print ISSN: 1089-778X Online ISSN: 1941-0026 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TEVC.2024.3374519

Towards AI Research Agents in the Chemical Sciences

Ofer M. Shir
2024 , ChemRxiv. Cambridge: Cambridge Open Engage; 2024

On the Behavior of the Mixed-Integer SMS-EMOA on Box-Constrained Quadratic Bi-Objective Models

Shir, O.M., Emmerich, M.
2023

Algorithmically-guided postharvest protocols by experimental combinatorial optimization

Ofer M. Shir, Boris Yazmir, Assaf Israeli, Dan Gamrasni
2022

Saliency Can Be All You Need In Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning

Kocaman, V., Shir, O.M., Bäck, T., Belbachir, A.N.
2022

Toward an ImageNet Library of Functions for Global Optimization Benchmarking

Yazmir B., Shir, O.M.
2022 , arXiv preprint (2022)

Algorithmically-guided discovery of viral epitopes via linguistic parsing: Problem formulation and solving by soft computing

Shir, O.M., Israeli, A., Caftory, A., Zepko, G., Bloch, I.
2022 , Applied Soft Computing, Volume 129 (2022) 109509

Algorithmically-guided postharvest by experimental combinatorial optimization

Shir, O.M., Yazmir, B., Israeli, A., Gamrasni, D.
2022 , Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO-2022, New York, NY, USA, ACM Press (2022) 2027–2035

Introductory Mathematical Programming for EC

Shir, O.M.
2022 , Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO-2022, New York, NY, USA, ACM Press (2022)

Sequential Experimentation by Evolutionary Algorithms

Shir, O.M., Bäck, T.
2022 , Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO-2022, New York, NY, USA, ACM Press (2022)

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Final Batch Normalization Layer

Kocaman, V., Shir, O.M., Bäck, T.
2021 , Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC'21

Multi-level evolution strategies for high-resolution black-box control

Shir, O.M., Xi, X., Rabitz, H.
2021 , Journal of Heuristics (2021), Springer US

Automated Feature Detection of Black-Box Continuous Search-Landscapes using Neural Image Recognition

Yazmir, B., Shir, O.M.
2021 , Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO-2021, New York, NY, USA, ACM Press (2021) 213–214

Locating the local minima in lens design with machine learning

Kononova, A.V., Shir, O.M., Tukker, T., Frisco, P., Zeng, S., Bäck, T.
2021 , Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering XXII 11814, 1181402

Addressing the Multiplicity of Solutions in Optical Lens Design as a Niching Evolutionary Algorithms Computational Challenge

Kononova, A.V., Shir, O.M., Tukker, T., Frisco, P., Zeng, S., Bäck, T.
2021 , Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO-2021, New York, NY, USA, ACM Press (2021) 1596–1604

Improving Model Accuracy for Imbalanced Image Classification Tasks by Adding a Final Batch Normalization Layer: An Empirical Study

Kocaman, V., Shir, O.M., Bäck, T.
2021 , Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR2020 (2021) 10404–10411

Benchmarking Discrete Optimization Heuristics with IOHprofiler.

Doerr, C., Ye, F., Horesh, N., Wang, H., Shir, O.M., Bäck, T.
2020 , Applied Soft Computing 88 (2020) 106027

On the Covariance-Hessian Relation in Evolution Strategies.

Shir, O.M., Yehudayoff, A.
2020 , Theoretical Computer Science 801 (2020) 157—174