Following the success of the previous editions at IEEE PES; CEC; GECCO, SSCI, and WCCI, we are launching another challenging edition of the competition at major conferences in computational intelligence. This edition of the IEEE WCCI and GECCO 2026 competition proposes one track in the energy domain:
Track 1) This track focuses on optimizing local electricity prices to achieve a fair and equitable distribution of costs and benefits among community members. Participants are required to develop metaheuristic algorithms capable of determining an optimal price profile that maximizes fairness according to a “FairMix metric”, a composite fairness function that integrates three complementary factors:
- Equity (1−J), based on Jain’s index, rewarding uniform positive outcomes across participants.
- Balance (CV), capturing the coefficient of variation among those who benefit to ensure equity within the “winners.”
- Loss moderation (L_norm), which penalizes large relative losses among participants with negative outcomes.
Note: The competition framework follows the same structure as in previous editions, allowing former participants to easily adapt their algorithms. The number of function evaluations is also included in the ranking index, together with the final fitness value, rewarding algorithms that achieve fairer outcomes efficiently
Guidelines
Rules and a full description are available on the website:
https://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/ERM-competitions/2026-3/
Registration
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekYkh1LprwQVo9RMZ1iCWpvHXbc0-oc4nqJ6DgskGiXhFZYQ/viewform?usp=dialog
Important Dates:
Submit your results by 1st June 2026 (anywhere on Earth)
IEEE CIS PRIZE:
(TBD)
Competition Organizers:
Fernando Lezama, GECAD, Polytechnic of Porto (flz@isep.ipp.pt)
José Almeida, GECAD, Polytechnic of Porto (jorga@isep.ipp.pt)
Bruno Canizes, GECAD, Polytechnic of Porto (bmc@isep.ipp.pt)
Filipe Sousa, GECAD, Polytechnic of Porto (ffeso@isep.ipp.pt)
Zita Vale, Polytechnic of Porto (zav@isep.ipp.pt)
Please send an email with any questions for the above contacts.
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https://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/ERM-competitions/2026-3/
