The 11th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization EMO2021 (11th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization) will be held in Shenzhen, China from March 28 to March 31, 2021. EMO is an important international conference in the field of evolutionary computing and multi-objective optimization. It is held every two years. This is the first time the conference has been held in mainland China. Affected by the global epidemic, this conference adopted a combination of online and offline methods for the first time to facilitate the convenient participation of researchers from different regions of the world. Teacher Ran Cheng served as the organization chairman of the conference, Teacher He Cheng and Teacher Lu Zhichao served as the Chairman of Online Platform, Bai Hui served as the Chairman of Web, and other EMI team members served as volunteers.

This conference invited many well-known experts to give conference reports and related academic activities. Invited guests include Professor Tang Lixin, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice President of Northeastern University, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, IEEE Fellow, Professor Kalyanmoy Deb of the University of Michigan, Chairman of the International Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) Society, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Professor Kaisa Miettinen of the University, an expert on major talent projects of the Ministry of Education, an IEEE Fellow, Professor Yao Xin, Dean of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Southern University of Science and Technology, Professor Shi Yuhui, an IEEE Fellow, Deputy Dean of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Southern University of Science and Technology, Huawei Nuo There are more than 130 experts and scholars from more than 30 academic organizations and industries around the world, including Dr. Tong Xialiang, a senior research engineer in the Asian Ark Laboratory, and Professor Chen Xiaojun, the chairman of YOCSEF Shenzhen.

On March 28th, the opening ceremony was held simultaneously in the conference hall and online. Professor Hisao Ishibuchi from our department delivered a speech as the chair of the conference. He introduced the organizing committee of the conference and expressed heartfelt thanks to the experts and scholars who came to the conference. I wish this academic conference a complete success.

In the next three and a half days, more than 40 scholars from all over the world gave reports on the papers and work results published in this academic conference in the conference hall and online conference platform. 6 well-known experts and scholars in the field presented At the conference, we made very enlightening keynotes and tutorials. They were Professor Kaisa Miettinen from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, Professor Kalyanmoy Deb from Michigan State University in the United States, and Tapabrata from the University of New South Wales in Australia. Professor Ray, Facebook research scientist Mark Harman, Academician Tang Lixin of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Associate Professor Akira Oyama of the Aerospace Exploration Institute and School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan. The participating scholars conducted in-depth exchanges on the latest outstanding research results, and conducted lively discussions on relevant frontiers, hotspots and development trends.

On the evening of March 30th, all the experts and scholars who attended the conference gathered together to participate in the dinner hosted by the conference, and held the Huawei International Logistics Competition Award Ceremony during the dinner. The competition is sponsored by Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Laboratory. Since the start of the competition in November 2020, it has lasted 4 months and nearly 500 contestants from all over the world have signed up. In the end, the gold, silver and bronze award winners of the Track1 competition were the City University of Hong Kong (Zhu Qingling), Southern University of Science and Technology (Zhang Han) and Kunzhan Technology (Zhang Yan); in addition, Kunzhan Technology Zhang Yan led the team to win the Track2 competition. The best contest award.

On the evening of March 31, the meeting held a closing ceremony. Professor Zhang Qingfu from City University of Hong Kong gave a speech at the meeting and thanked all the meeting organizers and participants who supported the meeting. Associate Professor Cheng Ran from our department summarized and reported on the organization of the meeting and the special issue of the meeting. The conference finally announced the best student paper award, best paper award and best report award of the conference.