Marco Dorigo's publications have been cited more than 136,000 times; his h-index is 114 (computed on Google Scholar, 08.06.2023).
 
2022: General Chair for ANTS 2022 - Twelfth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
2020: Vice-general Chair for DARS 2020 - 15th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
2020: Vice-general Chair for SWARM 2020 - The 4th International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics
2020: General Chair for ANTS 2020 - Twelfth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
2019: Vice-general Chair for SWARM 2019 - The 3rd International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics
2016: Recipient of the IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award
2015: Recipient of the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
2015: Honorary Chair for IEEE SSCI 2015 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
2015: Honorary Doctorate awarded on April 21, 2015, by University of Pretoria
2015: Elected AAAI fellow
2012: Botsker Award for Innovative Technology at the 2012 Robot Film Festival, New York, July 14, 2012
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.

In 2003 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 novel Prey.  
 
2016 IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award "for the development of the ant colony optimization methodology", to be awarded at 2016 IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence, July 25-29, 2016, Vancouver, Canada.
2015 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award "for contributions to the foundations of swarm intelligence", to be awarded at 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, December 9, 2016, Cape Town, South Africa.
Honorary Doctorate in Computer Science, awarded on April 21, 2015, by the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Best Paper Award for the paper "Autonomous Construction with Compliant Building Material" at 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems -- IAS-13, co-authored with Touraj Soleymani, Vito Trianni, Michael Bonani and Francesco Mondada. Awarded on July 19, 2014.
Top Cited Article Award 2006-2011 for the paper "Ant Colony Optimization for Continuous Domains" published in the European Journal of Operational Research, 185(3):1155-1173.
Swarmanoid, The Movie won:
Best Paper Award for the paper "An incremental Ant Colony Algorithm with Local Search for Continuous Optimization" at the GECCO'11 the 13th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. See http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2011/papers.html awarded on July 16, 2011.
Top Cited Article Award 2005-2010 for the paper "Ant Colony Optimization Theory: A Survey" published in Theoretical Computer Science, 344(2-3): 243-278.
CajAstur International Prize for Soft Computing, 2007.
Morphogenesis: Shaping Swarms of Intelligent Robots won the "Best Video Award" at the AAAI-07 AI Video Competition, Vancouver, 2007.
IEEE CIS 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.
Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences, Belgian FNRS, 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.
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