May 20-22, 2019, Birmingham, United Kingdom

May 20: Workshop held for ESRs, on “Machine Learning approaches to Engineering Data Optimisation”.

Talks given by University of Birmingham academic staff as follows:

• Leandro Minku (UoB) Talk title: “Statistical Comparison of Algorithms”
• Peter Tino (UoB) Talk title: “Dynamical Systems as Feature Representations for Learning from Temporal Data”
• Ata Kaban (UoB) Talk title: “Structure-aware Learning with Random Projections”
• Per Kristian Lehre (UoB) Talk title: “Self-adaptation in Evolutionary Computation”
• Zhao Xu Talk (NEC) Talk title: “Deep latent variable models”

May 21: Project management meeting. ESRs will also be given the opportunity to present and discuss their research topic, any new findings and allow for feedback from project supervisors.

May 22: ECOLE first “Project Check” meeting with the EU officer. Updates and discussion around project progression over the last 6-12months since the start of the project.

November 28-30 2018, Leiden, Netherlands

November 28: Social activities organised for the ESRs and project team members.

November 29: Workshop held for ESRs on “Vision on Industry 4.0”.

Scientific talks given as follows:

• Gédo Kuiper, Talk title: “Introduction Vision on Industry 4.0”
• Bas van Stein, Talk title: “Deep Steel, Optimizing Networks to Discover Defects on Steel Surfaces”.
• Hao Wang, Talk title: “Anomaly Detection in High Dimensional Space for Industrial Application”

Afternoon Workshop held for ESRs on “Complex and Large Optimisation”. Scientific talks given as follows:

• Michael Emmerich, Talk title: “Introduction Complex and Large Optimization. Duration”.
• Hao Wang, Talk title: “Efficient Global Optimization for Complex Search Space. Duration”.
• Kaifeng Yang, Talk title: “Towards Multi-objective Bayesian Global Optimization. Duration”.

November 30: Project scientific discussions. ESRs had the opportunity to present their research topics. Presentations given by project beneficiaries Dr Zhao Xu, (NEC) and Dr Stefan Menzel, (HRI-EU).