EWRL: European Workshops On Reinforcement Learning
Honorary Chair
IEEE SSCI 2015 - 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Cape Town, South Africa (December 7-10, 2015).
First BRICS Countries Congress (BRICS-CCI) and 11th Brazilian Congress (CBIC) on Computational Intelligence, Recife, Brasil (September 8-11, 2013). (December 7-10, 2015).
IEEE Swarm - Second IEEE International Symposium on Swarm Intelligence, Pasadena, California (June 8-10, 2005).
General Chair
ANTS 2022 - Thirteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Malaga, Spain (Nov 2-4, 2022).
ANTS 2020 - Twelfth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain (Oct 26-28, 2020).
First Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA (Dec 4, 2018).
ANTS 2018 - Eleventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ISTC, CNR, Rome, Italy (Oct 29-31, 2018).
ANTS 2016 - Tenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Sep 7-9, 2016).
SWARM 2015 - The First International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Oct 28-30, 2015). Vice-general Chair.
ANTS 2014 - Ninth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Sep 10-12, 2014).
ANTS 2012 - Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Sep 12-14, 2012).
ANTS 2010 - Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Sep 8-10, 2010).
ANTS 2008 - Sixth International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Sep 22-24, 2008).
IEEE SIS07 - IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii (April 1-5, 2007).
ANTS 2006 - Fifth International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Sep 4-7, 2006).
ANTS
2004 - Fourth International Workshop on Ant Colony
Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, Université Libre
de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Sep 5-8, 2004).
ANTS 2002 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants:
Third International Workshop on Ant Algorithms, Université Libre
de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Sep 11-14, 2002).
ANTS 2000 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: Second
International Workshop on Ant Algorithms, Université Libre
de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Sep 7-9, 2000).
Fourth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning
(EWRL-4), Lugano, Switzerland (Oct 29-30, 1999).
ANTS'98 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: First
International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization,
Université Libre
de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Oct 15-16, 1998).
Third European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning
(EWRL-3), Rennes, France (Oct 13-14, 1997).
Second European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning
(EWRL-2), Milano, Italy (Sep 18-19, 1995).
First European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning
(EWRL-1), Brussels, Belgium (Sep 27-28, 1994).
Other contributions
Vice-general chair for DARS 2020 - The 15th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (November 24-27).
Vice-general chair for SWARM 2020 - The Fourth International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (November 24-27).
Vice-general chair for SWARM 2019 - The Third International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics, Okinawa, Japan (November 20-22).
Vice-general chair for SWARM 2017 - The Second International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Oct 30-Nov 1, 2017).
Technical program co-chair for DARS 2018 - International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (Jul 14-18, 2013).
Chair of the AAAI-13 AI Video Competition, Bellevue, Washington, USA (Jul 14-18, 2013).
Chair of the AAAI-12 AI Video Competition, Toronto, Canada (Jul 22-26, 2012).
Co-organizer of the conference ECAL 2011 - European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris, France (August 8-12, 2011).
Advisory Chair for the conference IEEE CEC 2011 - 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation - The Big EC, New Orleans, USA (June 12-16, 2011).
Technical program chair for IEEE CEC-2005 - IEEE International Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Edinburgh, UK (Sep 2-5, 2005).
Special session chair for the Ant Colony Optimization track at the Conference "MIC-2001 - 4th Metaheuristics International Conference",
Porto, Portugal (Jul 16-20, 2001).
Plenary talks chair
for the Conference "CEC'2000 - IEEE International Congress on Evolutionary Computation",La Jolla, CA, USA (Jul 16-19, 2000).
Special track chair
for the Ant Colony Optimization track at the Conference "IEEE 1999 International Congress On Evolutionary Computation",
Washington D.C., USA (Jul 6-9, 1999).
Special programme chair
for the Evolutionary Robotics track at the Conference "Third Annual Genetic Programming Conference - GP 98", University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, USA (Jul 22-25, 1998).
Session organizer for the
"INFORMS Meeting - Session on Ant Colony Optimization", Tel Aviv, Israel (Jun 28 - Jul 1, 1998).
Organizer of the
"First International Contest on Evolutionary Optimization (ICEO-1)", Nagoya University, Japan
(May 20-22, 1996).
European liaison chair for
the "1995 IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation", Perth, Western Australia (Nov 29 - Dec 1, 1995).