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This is the second in a series of competitions aimed at unbiased optimisation -  benchmarking algorithms against problems that do not suffer from some of the implicit biases found in many of the traditional mathematical benchmarking functions.

The first competition, called Huygens Probe, took place at WCCI'2006 (CEC'2006).

The winner and place-getters were:

This task is considerably harder than the first competition, since the scale is unknown to the algorithm. The population therefore cannot be initially spread over the surface and focus on convergence. Rather, the algorithm must truly achieve the difficult balance between exploration and exploitation.

In addition, the benchmarking software has been generalised to include a variety of base functions in addition to the Sphere used in 2006.