Books, Edited Books and Journal Special Issues

[B12] M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, G. A. Di Caro, R. Doursat, A. P. Engelbrecht, L. M. Gambardella, R. Groß, E. Sahin, and T. Stützle (2011/2012).   ANTS 2010 Special Issue,   Swarm Intelligence, vol. 5, no. 3/4 and vol. 6, no. 1.

[B11] M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, G. A. Di Caro, R. Doursat, A. P. Engelbrecht, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, R. Groß, E. Sahin, H. Sayama, and T. Stützle (2010).   Swarm Intelligence,   7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, LNCS 6234, Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[B10] T. Stützle, M. Birattari, and H. H. Hoos (2009).   Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms: Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics,   2nd International Workshop, SLS 2009. LNCS 5752. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[B09] G.R. Raidl, E. Alba, J. Bacardit, H.-G. Beyer, M. Birattari, C. Blum, P.A.N. Bosman, C.B. Congdon, D. Corne, C. Cotta, M. Di Penta, B. Doerr, R. Drechsle, M. Ebner, J. Grahl, T. Jansen, J.D. Knowles, T. Lenaerts, M. Middendorf, J. F. Miller, M. O'Neill, R. Poli, G. Squillero, K.O. Stanley, T. Stützle, J. van Hemert (2009)   GECCO 2009: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference,   ACM, New York, NY, USA.

[B08] M. Birattari (2009).   Tuning Metaheuristics: A machine learning perspective.   SCI 197. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[B07] M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, M. Clerc and T. Stützle, and A.F.T. Winfield (2008).   Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence,   6th International Conference, ANTS 2008. LNCS 5217. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[B06] T. Stützle, M. Birattari, and H. H. Hoos (2007).   Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms: Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics,   International Workshop, SLS 2007. LNCS 4638. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[B05] E. Ridge, T. Stützle, M. Birattari, and H. H. Hoos (2007).   SLS-DS 2007: Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms.   IRIDIA--Technical Report Series, TR/IRIDIA/2007-018. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

[B04] D. Thierens, H.-G. Beyer, M. Birattari, J. Bongard, J. Branke, J. A. Clark, D. Cliff, C. B. Congdon, K. Deb, B. Doerr, T. Kovacs, S. Kumar, J. F. Miller, J. Moore, F. Neumann, M. Pelikan, R. Poli, K. Sastry, K. O. Stanley, T. Stützle, R. A. Watson, and I. Wegener (2007).   GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.   ACM, New York, NY, USA.

[B03] M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, and T. Stützle (2006).   Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence,   5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006. LNCS 4150. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[B02] M. Birattari (2005).   The Problem of Tuning Metaheuristics as Seen from a Machine Learning Perspective.   DISKI 292, Infix/Aka, Berlin, Germany.

[B01] M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, and T. Stützle (2004).   Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence,   4th International Workshop, ANTS 2004. LNCS 3172. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

Articles in Journals

[J30] M. Dorigo, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, S. Nolfi, T. Baaboura, M. Birattari, M. Bonani, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, D. Burnier, A. Campo, A. L. Christensen, A. Decugnière, G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, E. Ferrante, A. Förster, J. Martinez Gonzales, J. Guzzi, V. Longchamp, S. Magnenat, N. Mathews, M. Montes de Oca, R. O'Grady, C. Pinciroli, G. Pini, P. Rètornaz, J. Roberts, V. Sperati, T. Stirling, A. Stranieri, T. Stützle, V. Trianni, E. Tuci, A. E. Turgut, and F. Vaussard (2012).   Swarmanoid: A novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms.   IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. In Press.

[J29] Z. Yuan, M. Montes de Oca, M. Birattari, and T. Stützle (2012).   Continuous optimization algorithms for tuning real and integer parameters of swarm intelligence algorithms.   Swarm Intelligence,  vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 49-75.

[J28] P. Pellegrini, T. Stützle, M. Birattari (2012).   A critical analysis of parameter adaptation in ant colony optimization.   Swarm Intelligence,  vol. 6, no. 1. pp. 23-48.

[J27] M. Montes de Oca, E. Ferrante, A. Scheidler, C. Pinciroli, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2011).   Majority-rule opinion dynamics with differential latency: A mechanism for self-organized collective decision-making.   Swarm Intelligence,  vol. 5, no. 3/4, pp. 305-327.

[J26] G. Pini, A. Brutschy, M. Frison, A. Roli, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari (2011).   Task partitioning in swarms of robots: An adaptive method for strategy selection.   Swarm Intelligence,  vol. 5, no. 3/4, pp. 283-304.

[J25] J. A. Sabino, J.E. Leal, T. Stützle, and M. Birattari (2010).   A multi-objective ant colony optimization method applied to switch engine scheduling in railroad yards.   Pesquisa Operacional,  vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 487-514.

[J24] P. Balaprakash, M. Birattari, T. Stützle, and M. Dorigo (2010).   Estimation-based metaheuristics for the probabilistic travelling salesman problem.   Computers & Operations Research,  vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1939-1951.

[J23] C. Piscopo and M. Birattari (2010).   A critique of the constitutive role of truthlikeness in the similarity approach.    Erkenntnis, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 379-386.

[J22] C. Twomey, T. Stützle, M. Dorigo, M. Manfrin, and M. Birattari (2010).   An analysis of communication policies for homogeneous multi-colony ACO algorithms.    Information Sciences, vol. 180, no. 12, pp. 2390--2404.

[J21] P. Balaprakash, M. Birattari, T. Stützle, Z. Yuan, and M. Dorigo (2009).   Estimation-based ant colony optimization and local search for the probabilistic traveling salesman problem.    Swarm Intelligence, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 223-242.

[J20] M. A. Montes de Oca, T. Stützle, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2009).   Frankenstein's PSO: A composite particle swarm optimization algorithm.    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1120-1132.

[J19] P. Balaprakash, M. Birattari, T. Stützle, and M. Dorigo (2008).   Adaptive sample size and importance sampling in estimation-based local earch for the probabilistic traveling salesman problem.    European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 199, pp. 98-110.

[J18] M. Birattari, P. Balaprakash, T. Stützle, and M. Dorigo (2008).   Estimation-based local search for stochastic combinatorial optimization using delta evaluations: A case study on the probabilistic traveling salesman problem.    INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 644-658.

[J17] C. Piscopo and M. Birattari (2008).   The metaphysical character of the criticisms raised against the use of probability for dealing with uncertainty in artificial intelligence.    Minds and Machines, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 273-288.

[J16] A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2008).   Fault detection in autonomous robots based on fault injection and learning.    Autonomous Robots, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 49-67.

[J15] M. Dorigo and M. Birattari (2007).   Swarm Intelligence.    Scholarpedia, vol. 2, no. 9, p. 1462.

[J14] M. Birattari, P. Pellegrini, and M. Dorigo (2007).   On the invariance of ant colony optimization.    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 732-742.

[J13] M. Birattari and M. Dorigo (2007).   How to assess and report the performance of a stochastic algorithm on a benchmark problem: Mean or best result on a number of runs?    Optimization Letters, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 309-311.

[J12] M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, and T. Stützle (2006).   Ant colony optimization: Artificial ants as a computational intelligence technique.    IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 28-39.

[J11] M. Birattari, M. Zlochin, and M. Dorigo (2006).   Towards a theory of practice in metaheuristics design: A machine learning perspective.    Theoretical Informatics and Applications, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 353-369.

[J10] M. Chiarandini, M. Birattari, K. Socha, and O. Rossi-Doria (2006).   An effective hybrid algorithm for university course timetabling.    Journal of Scheduling, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 403-432.

[J09] L. Bianchi, M. Birattari, M. Chiarandini, M. Manfrin, M. Mastrolilli, L. Paquete, O. Rossi-Doria, and T. Schiavinotto (2006).   Hybrid metaheuristics for the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands.    Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms,   vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 91-110.

[J08] S. Nouyan, R. Ghizzioli, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2005).   An insect-based algorithm for the dynamic task allocation problem.    Künstliche Intelligenz, no. 4/05, pp. 25-31.

[J07] G. Bontempi and M. Birattari (2005).   From linearization to lazy learning: A survey of divide-and-conquer techniques for nonlinear control.    International Journal of Computational Cognition, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 56-73.

[J06] D. Villacci, G. Bontempi, A. Vaccaro, and M. Birattari (2005).   The role of learning methods in the dynamic assessment of power components loading capability.    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 280-290.

[J05] M. Zlochin, M. Birattari, N. Meuleau, and M. Dorigo (2004).   Model-based search for combinatorial optimization: A critical survey.    Annals of Operations Research, vol. 131, pp. 373-395.

[J04] E. Bertolissi, M. Birattari, G. Bontempi, A. Duchâteau, and H. Bersini (2002).   Data-driven techniques for direct adaptive control: The lazy and the fuzzy approaches.    Fuzzy Sets and Systems. vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 3-14.

[J03] G. Bontempi, H. Bersini, and M. Birattari (2001).   The local paradigm for modeling and control: From neuro-fuzzy to lazy learning.    Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 121, no. 1, pp. 59-72.

[J02] G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, and H. Bersini (2000).   A model selection approach for local learning.    AI Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 41-47.

[J01] G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, and H. Bersini (1999).   Lazy learning for local modeling and control design.    International Journal of Control, vol. 72, no. 7/8, pp. 643-658.

Theses

[T03] M. Birattari (2004).   The Problem of Tuning Metaheuristics as Seen from a Machine Learning Perspective.    PhD Thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Supervised by M. Dorigo.

[T02] M. Birattari (2001).   On the Formal Foundation of Ant Programming.    DEA Thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Supervised by M. Dorigo.

[T01] M. Birattari (1997).   Modelli Locali per l'Apprendimento: Dall'approccio neuro-fuzzy al lazy learning.  (In Italian)   Master Thesis, Politecnico di Milano. Supervised by A. Bonarini and G. Bontempi.

Book Chapters and Articles in Post-Proceedings of Conferences

[C10] C. Piscopo and M. Birattari (2012).   Invention vs. Discovery.   In E.G. Carayannis (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Springer, Berlin, Germany. In press.

[C09] T. Stützle, M. López-Ibañez, P. Pellegrini, M. Maur, M. Montes de Oca, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2012).   Parameter adaptation in ant colony optimization.   In Y. Hamadi, E. Monfroy, and F. Saubion (Eds.) Autonomous Search, pp. 191-215. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[C08] P. Pellegrini and M. Birattari (2011).   Out-of-the-box and custom implementation of metaheuristics. A case study: The vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand.   In M. Köppen et al. (Eds.) Intelligent Computational Optimization in Engineering, SCI 366, pp. 273-295, Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[C07] G. Pini, A. Brutschy, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2011).   Task partitioning in swarms of robots: Reducing performance losses due to interference at shared resources.   In J.A. Cetto, J. Filipe, and J.-L. Ferrier (Eds.) Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics, LNEE 85, pp. 217-228. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[C06] M. Dorigo and M. Birattari (2010).   Ant Colony Optimization.   In C. Sammut and G. Webb Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, pp. 37-40, Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[C05] M. Birattari, Z. Yuan, P. Balaprakash, and T. Stützle (2010).   F-race and iterated F-race: An overview.   In T. Bartz-Beielstein, M. Chiarandini, L. Paquete, and M. Preuss (Eds.) Empirical Methods for the Analysis of Optimization Algorithms, pp. 311-336, Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[C04] P. Balaprakash, M. Birattari, and T. Stützle (2008).   Engineering stochastic local search algorithms: A case study in estimation-based local search for the probabilistic travelling salesman problem.    In C. Cotta and J. van Hemert (Eds.) Recent Advances in Evolutionary Computation for Combinatorial Optimization, pp. 53-66. Studies in Computational Intelligence 153. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[C03] M. Birattari, P. Balaprakash, and M. Dorigo (2006).   The ACO/F-RACE algorithm for combinatorial optimization under uncertainty.    In K. F. Doerner, M. Gendreau, P. Greistorfer, W. J. Gutjahr, R. F. Hartl, and M. Reimann (Eds.) Metaheuristics - Progress in Complex Systems Optimization, pp. 189-203. Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[C02] O. Rossi-Doria, M. Sampels, M. Birattari, M. Chiarandini, M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, J. Knowles, M. Manfrin, M. Mastrolilli, B. Paechter, L. Paquete, and T. Stützle (2003).   A comparison of the performance of different metaheuristics on the timetabling problem.    In E. Burke and P. D Causmaecker (Eds.) Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV. 4th International Conference, PATAT 2002. LNCS 2740, pp. 329-351. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

[C01] G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, and H. Bersini (2001).   Lazy Learning: A local method for supervised learning.    In L. C. Jain and J. Kacprzyk (Eds.) New Learning Paradigms in Soft Computing. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol. 84, pp. 97-137. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.

Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings

[P59] A. Brutschy, N.-L. Tran, N. Baiboun, M. Frison, G. Pini, A. Roli, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari (2011).   Costs and benefits of behavioral specialization.   In R. Groß, L. Alboul, C. Melhuish, M. Witkowski, T. J. Prescott, and J. Penders (Eds.) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011, LNCS 6856, pp. 90-101. Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Sheffield, UK. August 31-September 2, 2011)

[P58] A. Stranieri, E. Ferrante, A. E. Turgut, V. Trianni, C. Pinciroli, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2011).   Self-organized flocking with a heterogeneous mobile robot swarm.   In T. Lenaerts, M. Giacobini, H. Bersini, P. Bourgine, M. Dorigo, and R. Doursat (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011: 11th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, pp. 789-796. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (Conference held in Paris, France. August 8-12, 2011)

[P57] M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, R. O'Grady, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, D. Floreano, S. Nolfi, T. Baaboura, M. Bonani, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, D. Burnier, A. Campo, A. Christensen, A. Decugnière, G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, E. Ferrante, J. Martinez Gonzales, J. Guzzi, V. Longchamp, S. Magnenat, N. Mathews, M. Montes de Oca, C. Pinciroli, G. Pini, P. Rétornaz, F. Rey, J. Roberts, F. Rochat, V. Sperati, T. Stirling, A. Stranieri, T. Stützle, V. Trianni, E. Tuci, A. E. Turgut, and F. Vaussard (2011).   Swarmanoid, the movie.   In D. Aha and A. Jhala (Eds.) AAAI-11, AI Video Competition, AAAI Press. Winner of the Best Video award. (Conference held in San Francisco, CA. August 7-11, 2011)

[P56] A. Roli, M. Manfroni, C. Pinciroli, and M. Birattari (2011).   On the design of Boolean network robots.    In C. Di Chio, A. Brabazon, G.A. Di Caro, R. Drechsler, M. Farooq, J. Grahl, G. Greenfield, C. Prins, J. Romero, G. Squillero, E. Tarantino, A.G.B. Tettamanzi, N. Urquhart, and A.S. Uyar (Eds.) Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2011: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, LNCS 6624/5, pp. 43-52. Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Torino, Italy. April 23-27, 2011)

[P55] G. Francesca, P. Pellegrini, T. Stützle, and M. Birattari (2011)   Off-line and On-line Tuning: A Study on Operator Selection for a Memetic Algorithm Applied to the QAP.    In P. Merz, J.-K. Hao (Eds.) Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, 11th European Conference, EvoCOP 2011, LNCS 6622, pp. 203-214. Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Torino, Italy. April 27-29, 2011)

[P54] W. Schäfer, M. Birattari, J. Blömer, M. Dorigo, G. Engels, R. O'Grady, M. Platzner, F. Rammig, W. Reif, and A. Trächtler (2010).   Engineering Self-Coordinating Software Intensive Systems.    In G.-C. Roman and K. Sullivan (Eds.) FoSER'10: Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on future of software engineering research, pp. 321--324, ACM Press. New York, NY, USA. (Conference held in Santa Fe, NM, USA. November 7-11, 2010)

[P53] M.A. Montes de Oca, T. Stützle, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2010).   Incremental social learning applied to a decentralized decision-making mechanism: collective learning made faster.    In I. Gupta, S. Hassas, and J. Rolia (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2010, pp. 243--252, IEEE Computer Society Press. Los Alamitos, CA. (Conference held in Budapest, Hungary. September 27-October 1, 2010)

[P52] E. Ferrante, A. E. Turgut, N. Mathews, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2010).   Flocking in stationary and non-stationary environments: A novel communication strategy for heading alignment.    In R. Schaefer, C. Cotta, J. Kolodziej, and G. Rudolph (Eds.) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN XI: 11th International Conference, LNCS 6239, pp. 331-340, Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Krakow, Polland. September 11-15, 2010)

[P51] Z. Yuan, M. A. Montes de Oca, M. Birattari, and T. Stützle (2010).   Modern continuous optimization algorithms for tuning real and integer algorithm parameters.    In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, G. A. Di Caro, R. Doursat, A. P. Engelbrecht, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, R. Groß, E. Sahin, H. Sayama, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Swarm Intelligence, 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, LNCS 6234, pp. 203-214, Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 8-10, 2010)

[P50] P. Pellegrini and T. Stützle, and M. Birattari (2010).   Off-line vs. on-line tuning: A study on MAX-MIN ant system for the TSP.    In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, G. A. Di Caro, R. Doursat, A. P. Engelbrecht, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, R. Groß, E. Sahin, H. Sayama, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Swarm Intelligence, 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, LNCS 6234, pp. 239-250, Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 8-10, 2010)

[P49] M. A. Montes de Oca, E. Ferrante, N. Mathews, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2010).   Opinion dynamics for decentralized decision-making in a robot swarm.   In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, G. A. Di Caro, R. Doursat, A. P. Engelbrecht, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, R. Groß, E. Sahin, H. Sayama, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Swarm Intelligence, 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010,  LNCS 6234, pp. 251-262, Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 8-10, 2010)

[P48] M. Frison, N.-L. Tran, N. Baiboun, A. Brutschy, G. Pini, A. Roli, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari (2010).   Adaptive task partitioning in swarms of homogeneous robots.    In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, G. A. Di Caro, R. Doursat, A. P. Engelbrecht, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, R. Groß, E. Sahin, H. Sayama, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Swarm Intelligence, 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, LNCS 6234, pp. 287-298, Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 8-10, 2010)

[P47] E. Ferrante, M. Brambilla, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2010).   Look out!: Socially-mediated obstacle avoidance in collective transport.      In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, G. A. Di Caro, R. Doursat, A. P. Engelbrecht, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, R. Groß, E. Sahin, H. Sayama, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Swarm Intelligence, 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, LNCS 6234, pp. 572-573, Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 8-10, 2010)

[P46] Z. Yuan, T. Stützle, and M. Birattari (2010).   MADS/F-Race: Mesh adaptive direct search meets F-Race.    In N. García-Pedrajas, H. Francisco, C. Fyfe, J.M. Benítez, and M. Ali (Eds.) Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems, 23rd International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2010, LNAI 6096, pp. 41-50. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Córdoba, Spain. June 1-4, 2010)

[P45] M. Gagliolo, C. Legrand, and M. Birattari (2009).   Mixed-effects modeling of optimisation algorithm performance.    In T. Stützle, M. Birattari, and H. H. Hoos (Eds.) Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms, 2nd International Workshop, SLS 2009, LNCS 5752, pp. 150-154. Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 3-4, 2009)

[P44] M. Birattari, Z. Yuan, P. Balaprakash, T. Stützle (2009).   Automated algorithm tuning using F-races: Recent developments.    In S. Voss and M. Caserta (Eds.) MIC 2009: The 8th Metaheuristics International Conference, proceedings on CD-ROM, 10 pages. (Conference held in Hamburg, Germany. July 13-16, 2009)

[P43] G. Pini, A. Brutschy, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2009).   Interference reduction through task partitioning in a robotic swarm.    In J. Filipe, J. A. Cetto, and J.-L. Ferrier (Eds.) ICINCO 2009: 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, proceedings on CD-ROM, paper ID 156, 8 pages. INSTICC Press. Setúbal, Portugal. (Conference held in Milan, Italy. July 2-5, 2009)

[P42] M. Brambilla, C. Pinciroli, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2009).   A reliable distributed algorithm for group size estimation with minimal communication requirements.    In E. Prassler et al. (Eds.) ICAR 2009: 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, proceedings on CD-ROM, paper ID 137, 6 pages. (Conference held in Munich, Germany. June 22-26, 2009)

[P41] A. Decugnière, B. Poulain, A. Campo, C. Pinciroli, B. Tartini, M. Osée, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari (2008).   Enhancing the cooperative transport of multiple objects.    In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, M. Clerc, T. Stützle, and A.F.T. Winfield (Eds.) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 6th International Conference, ANTS 2008, LNCS 5217, pp. 307-314, Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 22-24, 2008)

[P40] C. Pinciroli, M. Birattari, E. Tuci, M. Dorigo, M. del Rey Zapatero, T. Vinko, and D. Izzo (2008).   Lattice formation in space for a swarm of pico satellites.    In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, M. Clerc, T. Stützle, and A.F.T. Winfield (Eds.) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 6th International Conference, ANTS 2008, LNCS 5217, pp. 347-354, Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 22-24, 2008)

[P39] C. Pinciroli, M. Birattari, E. Tuci, M. Dorigo, M. del Rey Zapatero, T. Vinko, and D. Izzo (2008).   Self-organizing and scalable shape formation for a swarm of pico satellites.    In D. Keymeulen, T. Arslan, M. Suess, A. Stoica, A.T. Erdogan, and D. Merodio (Eds.) 2008 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, pp. 57-61. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA. (Conference held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. June 22-25, 2008)

[P38] R. Lenne, C. Solnon, T. Stützle, E. Tannier, and M. Birattari (2008).   Reactive stochastic local search algorithms for the genomic median problem.    In J. van Hemert and C. Cotta (Eds.) Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, 8th European Conference, EvoCOP 2008, LNCS 4972, pp. 266-276, Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Naple, Italy. March 26-27, 2008)

[P37] P. Balaprakash, M. Birattari, T. Stützle (2007).   Improvement strategies for the F-Race algorithm: Sampling design and iterative refinement.    In T. Bartz-Beielstein, M. J. Blesa Aguilera, C. Blum, B. Naujoks, A. Roli, G. Rudolph, and M. Sampels (Eds.) Hybrid Metaheuristics, 4th International Workshop, HM 2007, LNCS 4771, pp. 108-122. Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Dortmund, Germany. October 8-9, 2007)

[P36] A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2007).   Exogenous fault detection in a collective robotic task.    In F. Almeida e Costa, L. Mateus, E. Costa, I. Harvey, and A. Coutinho (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, LNCS 4648, pp. 555-564. Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. September 10-14, 2007)

[P35] P. Pellegrini and M. Birattari (2007).   Implementation effort and performance: A comparison of custom and out-of-the-box metaheuristics on the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand.    In T. Stützle, M. Birattari, and H. H. Hoos (Eds.) Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms, International Workshop, SLS 2007, LNCS 4638, pp. 31-45. Springer. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 6-8, 2007)

[P34] A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2007).   Automatic synthesis of fault detection modules for mobile robots.    In T. Arslan et al. (Eds.) 2007 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, pp. 693-700, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA. (Conference held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. August 5-8, 2007)

[P33] M. Birattari, P. Balaprakash, T. Stützle, and M. Dorigo (2007).   Estimation-based local search for the probabilistic traveling salesman problem.    In M. Gendreau, T. G. Crainic, L.-M. Rousseau, and P. Soriano (Eds.) MIC 2007: The 7th Metaheuristics International Conference, p. 141, CIRRELT, Montreal, Canada. (Conference held in Montreal, Canada. June 25-29, 2007)

[P32] A. Campo, S. Nouyan, M. Birattari, R. Groß, and M. Dorigo (2006).   Enhancing cooperative transport using negotiation of goal direction.    In P.-Y. Schobbens, W. Vanhoof, and G. Schwanen (Eds.) BNAIC 2006: 18th Belgium - Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 365-366, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium. (Conference held in Namur, Belgium. October 5-6, 2006)

[P31] M. Manfrin, M. Birattari, T. Stützle, and M. Dorigo (2006).   Parallel multicolony ACO algorithm with exchange of solutions.    In P.-Y. Schobbens, W. Vanhoof, and G. Schwanen (Eds.) BNAIC 2006: 18th Belgium - Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 409-410, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium. (Conference held in Namur, Belgium. October 5-6, 2006)

[P30] M. Birattari, P. Pellegrini, and M. Dorigo (2006).   On the invariance of ant system.    In M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, LNCS 4150 pp. 215-223. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 4-7, 2006)

[P29] A. Campo, S. Nouyan, M. Birattari, R. Groß, and M. Dorigo (2006).   Negotiation of goal direction for cooperative transport.    In M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, LNCS 4150 pp. 191-202. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 4-7, 2006)

[P28] M. A. Montes de Oca, T. Stützle, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2006).   A comparison of particle swarm optimization algorithms based on run-length distributions.    In M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, LNCS 4150 pp. 1-12. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 4-7, 2006)

[P27] P. Balaprakash, M. Birattari, T. Stützle, and M. Dorigo (2006).   Incremental local search in ant colony optimization: Why it fails for the quadratic assignment problem.    In M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, LNCS 4150 pp. 156-166. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 4-7, 2006)

[P26] M. Manfrin, M. Birattari, T. Stützle, and M. Dorigo (2006).   Parallel ant colony optimization for the traveling salesman problem.    In M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, LNCS 4150 pp. 224-234. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 4-7, 2006)

[P25] J. A. Sabino, T. Stützle, M. Birattari, and J. E. Leal (2006).   Ant colony optimization applied to switch engine scheduling in a railroad yard.    In M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, and T. Stützle (Eds.) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, LNCS 4150 pp. 502-503. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 4-7, 2006)

[P24] M. Birattari, P. Balaprakash, and M. Dorigo (2005).   ACO/F-Race: Ant colony optimization and racing techniques for combinatorial optimization under uncertainty.    In K. F. Doerner, M. Gendreau, P. Greistorfer, W. J. Gutjahr, R. F. Hartl, and M. Reimann (Eds.) MIC 2005: The 6th Metaheuristics International Conference, pp. 107-112. (Conference held in Vienna, Austria. August 22-26, 2005)

[P23] G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, and P. E. Meyer (2005).   Combining lazy learning, racing and subsampling for effective feature selection.    In B. Ribeiro, R. F. Albrecht, A. Dobnikar, D. W. Pearson, and N. C. Steele (Eds.) ICANNGA05: 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, pp. 393-396. Springer, Vienna, Austria. (Conference held in Coimbra, Portugal. March 21-23, 2005)

[P22] L. Bianchi, M. Birattari, M. Chiarandini, M. Manfrin, M. Mastrolilli, L. Paquete, O. Rossi-Doria, and T. Schiavinotto (2004).   Metaheuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands.    In X. Yao, E. Burke, J. A. Lozano, J. Smith, J. J. Merelo-Guervós, J. A. Bullinaria, J. Rowe, P. Tino, A. Kabán, and H.-P. Schwefel (Eds.) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN VIII, 8th International Conference. LNCS 3242, pp. 450--460. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Birmingham, UK. September 18-22, 2004)

[P21] C. Piscopo and M. Birattari (2002).   Invention vs. Discovery. A critical discussion.    In S. Lange, K. Satoh, C. H. Smith (Eds.) Discovery Science. 5th International Conference, DS 2002. LNCS 2534, pp. 457-462. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Lübeck, Germany. November 24-26, 2002)

[P20] M. Birattari, G. Di Caro, and M. Dorigo (2002).   Toward the formal foundation of Ant Programming.    In M. Dorigo, G. Di Caro, and M. Samples (Eds.) Ant Algorithms. Third International workshop, ANTS 2002. LNCS 2463, pp. 188-201, Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 12-14, 2002)

[P19] O. Rossi-Doria, M. Sampels, M. Birattari, M. Chiarandini, M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, J. Knowles, M. Manfrin, M. Mastrolilli, B. Paechter, L. Paquete, and T. Stützle (2002).   A comparison of the performance of different metaheuristics on the timetabling problem.    In E. Burke and P. De Causmaecker (Eds.) PATAT 2002: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, pp. 115-119. KaHo Sint-Lieven, Department of Industrial Engineering, Gent, Belgium. (Conference held in Gent, Belgium. August 21-23, 2002)

[P18] M. Birattari, T. Stützle, L. Paquete, and K. Varrentrapp (2002).   A Racing Algorithm for Configuring Metaheuristics.    In W. B. Langdon, E. Cantú-Paz, K. Mathias, R. Roy, D. Davis, R. Poli, K. Balakrishnan, V. Honavar, G. Rudolph, J. Wegener, L. Bull, M. A. Potter, A. C. Schultz, J. F. Miller, E. Burke, and N. Jonoska (Eds.) GECCO 2002: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 11-18. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, USA. (Conference held in New York, NY, USA. July 9-13, 2002)

[P17] M. Dorigo, M. Zlochin, N. Meuleau, and M. Birattari (2002).   Updating ACO pheromones using Stochastic Gradient Ascent and Cross-Entropy methods.    In S. Cagnoni, J. Gottlieb, E. Hart, M. Middendorf, and R. Raidl (Eds.) Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2002: EvoCOP, EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN. LNCS 2279, pp. 21-30, Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Kinsale, Ireland. April 3-5, 2002)

[P16] E. Bertolissi, M. Birattari, G. Bontempi, A. Duchâteau, and H. Bersini (2000).   Data-Driven Techniques for Divide and Conquer Adaptive Control.    In V. Zakharov (Ed.) Control Applications of Optimization. Proceedings of the 11th IFAC International Workshop, CAO2000, pp. 70-75, Pergamon Press/Elsevier, Oxford, United Kingdom. (Conference held in St. Petersburg, Russia. July 3-6, 2000)

[P15] E. Bertolissi, M. Birattari, G. Bontempi, A. Duchâteau, and H. Bersini (2000).   Multiple Models for Adaptive Control: The Lazy and the Fuzzy Approach.    In R. Smith (Ed.) System Identification. A Proceedings volume from the 12th IFAC Symposium on System Identification. SYSID 2000, Pergamon Press/Elsevier, Oxford, United Kingdom. (Conference held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA. June 21-23, 2000)

[P14] G. Bontempi and M. Birattari (2000).   A multi-step-ahead prediction method based on local dynamic properties.    In M. Verleysen (Ed.) ESANN 2000: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, pp. 311-316. D-Facto Publications, Brussels, Belgium. (Conference held in Bruges, Belgium. April 26-28, 2000)

[P13] G. Bontempi, E. Bertolissi, and M. Birattari (2000).   Predicting stock markets in boundary conditions with local models.    CIFEr 2000: Proceedings of the IEEE/IAFE/INFORMS Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering, pp. 158-161. (Conference held in New York, NY, USA. March 26-28, 2000)

[P12] E. Bertolissi, M. Birattari, G. Bontempi, A. Duchâteau, and H. Bersini (2000).   Lazy Learning vs. Fuzzy Systems: Two multiple-model approaches for adaptive control.    ACIDCA 2000: International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Decision, Control and Automation in Engineering and Industrial Applications, pp.6-11. (Conference held in Monastir, Tunisia. March 22-24, 2000)

[P11] G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, and H. Bersini (1999).   Lazy Learners at Work: The Lazy Learning Toolbox.    EUFIT'99: The 7th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, Erudit TTC on Proceedings CD. (Conference held in Aachen, Germany. September 13-16, 1999)

[P10] G. Bontempi and M. Birattari (1999).   A bound on the cross-validation estimate for algorithm assessment.    In E. Postma and M. Gyssens (Eds.) BNAIC'99: Proceedings of the 11th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 115--122. Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. (Conference held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. November 3-4, 1999)

[P09] G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, and H. Bersini (1999).   Local learning for iterated time-series prediction.    In I. Bradko and S. Dzeroski (Eds.) ICML'99: International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 32-38. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, USA. (Conference held in Bled, Slovenia. June 27-30, 1999)

[P08] M. Birattari, G. Bontempi, and H. Bersini (1999).   Lazy learning meets the recursive least squares algorithm.    In M. S. Kearns, S. A. Solla, and D. A. Cohn (Eds.) NIPS'98: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11. pp. 375-381. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Conference held in Denver, CO, USA. December 1-3, 1998)

[P07] G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, and H. Bersini (1998).   Lazy learning for iterated time-series prediction.    In J. A. K. Suykens and J. Vandewalle (Eds.) International Workshop on Advanced Black-Box Techniques for Nonlinear Modeling, pp. 62-68. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. (Conference held in Leuven, Belgium. July 8-10, 1998)

[P06] M. Birattari, G. Bontempi, and H. Bersini (1998).   Local learning for data analysis.    In F. Verdenius and W. van den Broek (Eds.) Benelearn '98: Proceedings of the 8th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 55-61. ATO-DLO, Wageningen, The Netherlands. (Conference held in Wageningen, The Netherlands. October 1998)

[P05] G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, and H. Bersini (1998).   Local learning for nonlinear control.    In H. J. C. Huiberts and H. Nijmeijer (Eds.) NOLCOS'98: Nonlinear Control Systems Design Symposium, pp. 360-365. University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands. (Conference held in Enschede, The Netherlands. July 1-3, 1998)

[P04] H. Bersini, G. Bontempi, and M. Birattari (1998).   Is readability compatible with accuracy? From neuro-fuzzy to lazy learning.    In W. Brauer (Ed.) Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '98 - Computational Intelligence: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Fuzzy-Neuro Systems, pp. 10-25. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Conference held in Munich, Germany. March 18-20, 1998)

[P03] G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, and H. Bersini (1998).   Lazy learning for control design.    In M. Verleysen (Ed.) ESANN'98: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, pp. 73-78. D-Facto Publications, Brussels, Belgium. (Conference held in Bruges, Belgium. April 22-24, 1998)

[P02] G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, and H. Bersini (1998).   Recursive lazy learning for modeling and control.    In C. Nédellec and C. Rouveirol (Eds.) Machine Learning: ECML-98. 10th European Conference on Machine Learning. LNCS 1398, pp. 292-303. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Chemnitz, Germany. April 21-24, 1998)

[P01] H. Bersini, M. Birattari, and G. Bontempi (1998).   Adaptive memory based regression methods.    IJCNN'98: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 2102-2106. IEEE Publications, Piscataway, NJ, USA. (Conference held in Anchorage, AK, USA. May 4-8, 1998)

Articles Presented at Workshops (no formal proceedings)

[W20] A. Roli, S. Benedettini, M. Birattari, C. Pinciroli, R. Serra, M. Villani (2011).   Robustness, evolvability and complexity in Boolean network robots.   In S. Thurner and M. Szell (Eds.) Book of Abstracts, ECCS'11 Vienna: European Conference on Complex Systems, pp. 117-118. Löcker Verlag, Vienna, Austria. (Conference held in Vienna, Austria. September 12-16, 2011)

[W19] M. Birattari, M. Chiarandini, M. Saerens, and T. Stützle (2011).   Learning Graphical Models for Algorithm Configuration.   In T. Berthold, A.M. Gleixner, S. Heinz, and T. Koch (Eds.) CPAIOR 2011: 8th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Berlin, Germany. (Conference held in Berlin, Germany. May 23-27, 2011)

[W18] E. Ferrante, M. Brambilla, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2011).   Socially-mediated negotiation for obstacle avoidance in collective transport.   In A. Martinoli and F. Mondada (Eds.) DARS 2010: 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. (Conference held in Lausanne, Switzerland. November 1-3, 2010)

[W17] P. Pellegrini, T. Stutzle, and M. Birattari (2010)   On the importance of the initial setting when tuning on-line the parameters of metaheuristics..   In J. P. Paixão et al (Eds.) EURO 2010: 24th European Conference on Operation Research. (Conference held in Lisbon, Potugal. July 11-14, 2010)

[W16] M. A. Montes de Oca, E. Ferrante, N. Mathews, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2009)   Optimal collective decision-making through social influence and different action execution times.   In D. Curran and C. O'Riordan (Eds.) Organisation, Cooperation and Emergence in Social Learning Agents - ECAL 2009 Workshop. (Conference held in Budapest, Hungary. September 15, 2009)

[W15] Z. Yuan, T. Stützle, and M. Birattari (2009)   Combining F-Race and mesh adaptive direct search for automatic algorithm configuration.   In F. Hutter and M. A. Montes de Oca (Eds.) SLS-DS 2009: Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms, pp. 21-25. (Conference held in Brussels, Belgium. September 4, 2009)

[W14] P. Balaprakash, M. Birattari, T. Stützle, and M. Dorigo (2008).   Estimation-based stochastic local search algorithms for the stochastic routing problems.   In E.-G. Talbi and K. Mellouli (Eds.) International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META'08. (Conference held in Hammamet, Tunisia. October 29-31, 2008)