Holger Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown Awarded over 5 Million Processor Hours by Compute Canada

Holger Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown and their empirical algorithmics group have been awarded 5,260,000 processor hours, valued at $315,569, in the nationwide 2013 Compute Canada resource allocation competition, for their research on Programming by Optimization: Automated Configuration and Selection of Algorithms for Challenging Computational Problems. This research develops methods for automatically optimizing algorithm performance, and has already yielded state-of-the-art algorithms for scheduling, timetabling, software verification, industrial process optimization and supervised machine learning. The work involves collaborations with IBM, Auctionomics Inc., and Actenum Corporation.