Mauro Birattari

Chercheur Qualifié du F.R.S.-FNRS

Editorial Activities

Scientific Journals

Swarm Intelligence

as associate editor
since Oct 2006

Computers and Industrial Engineering

as area editor
since Dec 2007

International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing

as editorial board member
since Jan 2009

Journal of Advanced Research in Evolutionary Algorithms

as editorial board member
since Sep 2008

International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics

as editorial board member
since May 2007

Evolutionary Computation

as editorial board member
from Feb 2007 to Jan 2011

Organization of Conferences

ANTS 2012

as organization co-chair

Eight International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

Brussels, Belgium, September 12-14, 2012

ANTS 2010

as organization co-chair

Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10, 2010

SLS 2009

as co-chair

Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms: Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics

Brussels, Belgium, September 3-4, 2009

GECCO 2009

as track co-chair

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: Track on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Montréal, Canada, July 8-12, 2009

ANTS 2008

as publication chair

Sixth International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Brussels, Belgium, September 22-24, 2008

SLS 2007

as co-chair

Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms: Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics.

Brussels, Belgium, September 6-8, 2007

GECCO 2007

as track co-chair

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: Track on Ant Colony Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, and Artificial Immune Systems

London, UK, July, 7-11, 2007

ANTS 2006

as publication chair

Fifth International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Brussels, Belgium, September 4-7, 2006

ANTS 2004

as publication chair

Fourth International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Brussels, Belgium, September 5-8, 2004

ANTS 2002

as local organization chair

From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants. Third International Workshop on Ant Algorithms

Brussels, Belgium, September 12-14, 2002

Program Committees

  • TPNC 2012: Theory and Practice of Natural Computing. Tarragona, Spain. September 24-28, 2012
  • PPSN 2012: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature. Taormina, Italy. September 1-5, 2012
  • ECAI 2012: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Montpellier, France. 27-31 August 2012
  • ICINCO 2012: Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. Rome, Italy, July 28-31, 2012
  • COGNITIVE 2012: Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications. Nice, France, July 22-27, 2012
  • ICIEA 2012: 7th IEEE Conf. on Industrial Electronics and Applications. Singapore. July 18-20, 2012
  • LION 6: Learning and Intelligent Optimization. Paris, France, January 16-20, 2012
  • Bayesian Optimization, Experimental Design and Bandits. Sierra Nevada, Spain, Dec. 16, 2011
  • COGNITIVE 2011: Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications. Rome, Italy, Sept. 25-30, 2011
  • ECAL 2011: European Conference on Artificial Life. Paris, France, August 8-12, 2011.
  • ICINCO 2011: Inform. in Control, Automation and Robotics. Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, July 28-31, 2011
  • MIC 2011: Metaheuristics International Conference. Udine, Italy, July 25-28, 2011
  • GECCO 2011: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Dublin, Ireland, July 12--16, 2011
  • ICIEA 2011: 6th IEEE Conf. on Industrial Electronics and Applications. Beijing, China, June 21-23, 2011
  • CSIE 2011: Computer Science and Information Engineering. Changchun, China, June 17-19, 2011
  • AAMAS 2011: Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011
  • SIS 2011: IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium. Paris, France, April 11-15, 2011
  • LION 5: Learning and Intelligent Optimization. Rome, Italy, January 17-21, 2011
  • GCIS 2010: Global Congress on Intelligent Systems. Wuhan, China, December 16-17, 2010
  • HM 2010: Seventh International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics. Vienna, Austria, October 1-2, 2010
  • EMACS: Exp. Methods for the Assessment of Computational Systems. Krakow, Poland, Sep 11, 2010
  • GECCO 2010: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Portland, Oregon. July 7--11, 2010
  • ICINCO 2010: Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. Madeira, Portugal, June 15--18, 2010
  • ICIEA 2010: 5th IEEE Conf. on Ind. Electronics and Applications. Taichung, Taiwan, June 15-17, 2010
  • LION 4: Learning and Intelligent Optimization. Venice, Italy, January 18-22, 2010
  • ISDA'09: Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. Pisa, Italy, November 30--December 2, 2009
  • HM 2009: Sixth International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics. Udine, Italy, October 16-17, 2009
  • SLS-DS 2009: SLS Doctoral Symposium. Brussels, Belgium, September 4, 2009
  • CIE39: International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering. Troyes, France, July 6-8, 2009
  • ICIEA 2009: 4th IEEE Conf. on Industrial Electronics and Applications. Xi'an, China, May 25-27, 2009
  • GCIS 2009: Global Congress on Intelligent Systems. Xiamen, China, May 19-21, 2009
  • CEC 2009: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21, 2009
  • SIS 2009: IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium. Nashville, TN, USA, March 30-April 2, 2009
  • LION 3: Learning and Intelligent Optimization. Trento, Italy, January 14-18, 2009
  • HM 2008: Fifth International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics. Málaga, Spain, October 8-9, 2008
  • HIS 2008: 8th Int. Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. Barcelona, Spain, September 10-12, 2008
  • WCCI 2008: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008
  • HM 2007: Fourth Int. Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics. Dortmund, Germany, October 8-9, 2007
  • SIS 2007: IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium. Honolulu, Hi, USA, April 1-5, 2007
  • EMAA 2006: Empirical Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms. Reykjavik, Iceland September 9, 2006
  • HM 2006: Third International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics. Agaete, Spain, October 13-15, 2006
  • HM 2005: Second International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics. Barcelona, Spain, August 29-30, 2005

Mauro Birattari

Chercheur Qualifié du F.R.S.-FNRS

IRIDIA, CoDE, FSA - CP 194/6
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50
1050 Bruxelles - Belgium

Voice: (+32)-2-650 31 68
Fax: (+32)-2-650 27 15

mbiro@ulb.ac.be
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Highlights

Best Video Award

The video Swarmanoid, the movie, written and directed by Mauro Birattari and Rehan O'Grady, won the Best Video Award at the AAAI-11 AI Video Competition!

August 2011

Best Master Thesis

Mattia Manfroni received the Best Master Thesis Award from the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA). Mattia carried out his research at IRIDIA under the supervision of Andrea Roli, Mauro Birattari, Carlo Pinciroli, and Marco Dorigo.

September 2011

Books

Tuning Metaheuristics

A machine learning perspective
M. Birattari. Springer, 2009