Periodic Reporting for period 2 - SYNERGY (Synergy for Smart Multi-Objective Optimisation)
Período documentado: 2017-05-01 hasta 2019-01-31
The project overall goal of reducing JSI’s research networking gaps have been achieved through three core objectives aimed at increasing the number of joint papers with the high-profile institutions, increasing the number of citations, continued/expanded collaboration with the high-profile research institutions after the end of project and enlarged JSI’s visibility for industry, in particular in Slovenia.
The SYNERGY project significantly strengthened JSI’s expertise in surrogate-assisted multi-objective optimisation and large-scale parallel architectures for multi-objective optimisation, and provided the support actions needed to merge these two efficient concepts into smart multi-objective optimisation. Together, the partners were able to deal with the optimisation of complex real-world problems more efficiently and disseminated the acquired knowledge to Slovenian industry and other research institutions. The results of this collaboration raised the research profile of JSI staff, supported excellence of USTL and CUAS and provided means for spreading innovation to the industry. In addition, SYNERGY’s underlying topic of smart multi-objective optimisation contributed to the Smart Specialisation Strategy of the Republic of Slovenia, which defines Smart factories as one of its priority areas.
Consortium members have performed many activities related to a variety of events aimed at sharing the existing knowledge and gaining new knowledge on smart multi-objective optimisation. These included from chairing international workshops, organising special sessions and conference tracks to organising several workshops, conferences, a summer school and also an industrial challenge and job market sessions.
The most prominent organised events were the International Conference on Bioinspired Optimisation Methods and their Applications, BIOMA 2018, that took place in Paris, France, during 16–18 May 2018 (http://bioma2018.sciencesconf.org) and SYNERGY Summer School on Efficient Multi-Objective Optimisation that took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, during 27–31 August 2018 (http://summerschool.synergy-twinning.eu). BIOMA conference proceedings were published by Springer in the renowned series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Dissemination and outreach were performed through two tutorials, five invited lectures, a journal special issue, three invited seminars, two keynote talks, chairing a track and serving in two steering committees. Audiences included participants of international scientific conferences as well as Slovenian events, which aimed to directly address national stakeholders.
Results of the improved excellence of JSI researchers are evident from several tutorials given by JSI researchers at GECCO and CEC conferences, and successful proposals for a workshop and a special session at CEC 2019 without the influence of researchers from the high-profile partners.
Smart specialisation stakeholders have been contacted on many occasions and the most prominent achievement was co-organisation of the event with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (GZS) where successful applications of research achievements to real-world problems were presented to their interested members.
Promotion of women in science was performed by presenting research work to the general public during the JSI Open Day, co-organisation of the Women@GECCO workshop and a round table Women in Science and Technology at the Jožef Stefan Institute.
Economic impact is not achieved only by the JSI. USTL has initiated industrial collaborations using the synergy between multi-objective optimisation, surrogate modelling and high-performance computing to solve complex multi-disciplinary design engineering problems in aerospace (e.g. Launcher design). This work is performed in collaboration with ONERA (French Aerospace Lab) and CNES (National Institute of Aerospace Studies). Other complex engineering problem in smart grids (collaboration with EDF) have also been initiated. Similarly, CUAS established or intensified several contacts to German partners. In addition, since January 2017 JSI and CUAS collaborate in another EU project, Innovative Training Network (ITN) named UTOPIAE.