GECCO'16 Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking Workshop (BBOB-2016): Workshop Chairs' Welcome Message

The Black-Box-Optimization Benchmarking (BBOB) methodology associated to the BBOB-GECCO workshops has become a well-established standard for benchmarking stochastic and deterministic continuous optimization algorithms in recent years. So far, the BBOB-GECCO workshops have covered benchmarking of black-box optimization algorithms for single-objective, unconstrained problems in exact and noisy, as well as expensive and non-expensive scenarios. A substantial portion of the success can be attributed to the Comparing Continuous Optimization benchmarking platform (COCO) that builds the basis for all BBOB-GECCO workshops and that automatically allows algorithms to be benchmarked and performance data to be visualized effortlessly.