Marco Dorigo's publications have been cited more than 33,000 times; his h-index is 70; his g-index is 213 (computed on Google Scholar, 14.03.2011).   2012: General Chair for ANTS 2012 - Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence 2011: AAAI Best AI Video Award for the Movie "Swarmanoid, The Movie" 2010: ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Marco Dorigo for the project "E-Swarm: Engineering Swarm Intelligence Systems" On November 27, 2007, Marco Dorigo received the "CajAstur International Prize for Soft Computing". Best Video Award at the AAAI-07 AI Video Competition, Vancouver, 2007. In 2007 Springer launched the new journal "Swarm Intelligence". Article on "Swarm Theory" appeared in the July 2007 issue of the National Geographic Magazine. In 2007 Marco Dorigo was named ECCAI fellow. In 2006 Marco Dorigo was named IEEE fellow. On November 22, 2005, the King of Belgium presented the "FNRS - Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences" to Marco Dorigo for his fundamental contributions to the foundation of the swarm intelligence research field. Forthcoming invited talks.     Ant Colony Optimization Home page maintained by Marco Dorigo. Swarm-bots Home page of the IST-FET project "Swarm-bots" coordinated by Marco Dorigo. ANTS: The International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence Home page of the ANTS series of workshops founded by Marco Dorigo. Marco Dorigo received European Commission's Marie Curie Excellence Award for his research on Ant Colony Optimization and Ant Algorithms. Swarm intelligence research and book cited in Crichton's latest novel Prey.

The Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) was formerly the DEA prior to 2009.   Dhananjay Ipparthi since 2012   Roman Miletitch since 2012   Gabriele Valentini since 2011   Gianpiero Francesca since 2011   Andreagiovanni Reina since 2011         Alessandro Stranieri Self-organizing flocking in behaviorally heterogeneous swarms MAS awarded in August 2011   Tianjun Liao Improved ant colony optimization algorithms for continuous and mixed discrete-continuous optimization problems MAS awarded in May 2011   Antal Decugniere MAS awarded in 2011   Manuele Brambilla Collective Transport with Obstacle Avoidance through Socially-Mediated Negotiation MAS awarded in May 2011   Nithin Mathews Towards Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication MAS awarded in May 2010   Eliseo Ferrante A Control Architecture for a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots -- The Design of a Modular Behavior-based Architecture MAS awarded in May 2009   Arne Brutschy Task Allocation in Swarm Robotics -- Towards a method for self-organized allocation to complex tasks MAS awarded in May 2009   Giovanni Pini Towards Collective Robotics in a 3D Space -- Simulation with Hand-bot Robots MAS awarded in May 2009         Xavier Martínez González Simulation of Handbot Controllers -- The implementation of a novel 3D simulation platform DEA awarded in August 2008   Carlo Pinciroli Object Retrieval by a Swarm of Ground Based Robots Driven by Aerial Robots DEA awarded in August 2007   Marco A. Montes de Oca Roldán On the Performance of Particle Swarm Optimizers DEA awarded in September 2006   Prasanna Balaprakash Ant Colony Optimization under Uncertainty DEA awarded in September 2005   Anders Lyhne Christensen Efficient Neuro-Evolution of Hole-avoidance and Phototaxis for a Swarm-bot DEA awarded in September 2005   Rehan O'Grady Adaptive Swarm Robotics in Rough Terrain Navigation DEA awarded in September 2005   Christos Ampatzis Swarm Intelligence Techniques for Task Allocation and Sub-task Merging in Multi-agent Systems DEA awarded in September 2004   Daniele Catanzaro Metaheuristic Approaches for Inferring Phylogenies DEA awarded in September 2004   Max Manfrin Ant Colony Optimization for the Vehicle Routing Problem DEA awarded in September 2004   Thomas H. Labella Prey Retrieval by a Swarm of Robots DEA awarded in September 2003   Roderich Gross Swarm-intelligent Robotics in Prey Retrieval Tasks DEA awarded in September 2003   Shervin Nouyan Path Formation and Goal Search in Swarm Robotics DEA awarded in September 2003   Leonora Bianchi New Approaches for Solving the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem DEA awarded in May 2003   Krzysztof Socha Metaheuristics for the Timetabling Problem DEA awarded in May 2003   Vito Trianni Evolution of Coordinated Motion Behaviors in a Group of Self-Assembled Robots DEA awarded in May 2003   Christian Blum Metaheuristics for Group Shop Scheduling DEA awarded in May 2002   Mauro Birattari On the Formal Foundation of Ant Programming DEA awarded in June 2001   Gianni Di Caro A Society of Ant-like Agents for Adaptive Routing in Networks DEA awarded in June 2001 Last modified: April 27 2012 10:13:01.