SpOC 2022: winners announcement

The first edition of the Space optimisation Competition (SpOC) has concluded on 30.06.2022! SpOC was imagined by the European Space Agency's Advanced Concepts Team (ACT) in partnership with the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO). Participants competed during three months to solve three optimisation challenges in order to settle the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanetary system.

Winner

Team name: Space Coders
Affiliation: CS Group (Toulouse)
Members: Sébastien Goulet, Vincent Debout

Second Place

Team name: Team HRI
Affiliation: Honda Research Institute Europe
Members: Steffen Limmer, Nils Einecke, Felix Lanfermann

Third Place

Team name: The Alien Colony Optimizers
Affiliations: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) & University of Udine (Italy)
Members: Guillem Rodríguez i Corominas, Roberto Maria Rosati, Albert López i Serrano, Mehmet Anil Akbay, Christian Blum

Congratulations to the winners and to all participants! The last three months have been exciting and suspensful: one could not have wished for a better first edition for SpOC! We will have news to share soon on an opportunity for the best teams to share their solution methods with us and the rest of the SpOC community.

Stay tuned for new challenges on Optimize and our other platforms! We hope to see you again very soon for the next edition of SpOC!