Marco Dorigo's publications have been cited more than 33,000 times; his h-index is 68; his g-index is 199 (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.

Best Video Award at the AAAI-2011 AI Video Competition, San Francisco, 2011. Best Paper Award for the paper "An incremental Ant Colony Algorithm with Local Search for Continuous Optimization" at "GECCO'11 the 13th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation", co-authored with Liao T., Montes de Oca M.A., D. Aydin, & T. Stützle. See http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2011/papers.html awarded on July 16, 2011. . CajAstur International Prize for Soft Computing, 2007. Best Video Award at the AAAI-07 AI Video Competition, Vancouver, 2007. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award, 2007, for the paper co-authored with Christian Blum: "Search Bias in Ant Colony Optimization: On the Role of Competition-Balanced Systems," IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 9(2):159-174, April 2005. Belgian FNRS -- Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences, 2005. See also Christian Du Brulle's article in "Le Soir" (in French): "Quand les puces imitent les fourmis". Best Paper Award at the Eight Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-8), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for the paper: "Hole Avoidance: Experiments in Coordinated Motion on Rough Terrain", co-authored with Vito Trianni and Stefano Nolfi. (2004). Marie Curie Excellence Award, 2003. Italian Prize for Artificial Intelligence, 1996. Last modified: October 13 2011 19:40:53.