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.

Himank Gupta Asynchronous and mission critical decision making in swarms of autonomous robots since 2022     Raina Zakir Robot swarm resiliency against malicious attacks in collective decision making since 2021     Sinan Oguz Mergeable Nervous Systems for Swarms of Drones since 2019     Alexandre Pacheco A Blockchain-based Framework for the Decentralized Control of Robot Swarms since 2019     Weixu Zhu Stigmergy-based Swarm Construction since 2017                   Roman Miletitch On different communication modalities between foraging robot swarms PhD awarded on January 29, 2024     Christian Leonardo Camacho Villalón Designing New Metaheuristic Implementations: From Metaphors to Automatic Design PhD awarded on August 7, 2023     Aryo Jamshidpey Decentralised Control Mechanisms for Distributed Computing PhD awarded on December 12, 2022     Volker Strobel Blockchain-based Smart Contracts for the Secure Coordination of Robot Swarms PhD awarded on April 25, 2022     Nithin Mathews Advancing self-assembling robots: Mergeable nervous systems, spatially targeted communication and supervised morphogenesis PhD awarded on February 26, 2018     Michael Allwright An Autonomous Multi-Robot System for Stigmergy-Based Construction PhD awarded on September 8, 2017     Gaëtan Podevijn Effects of the Interaction with Robot Swarms on the Human Psychological State PhD awarded on January 27, 2017     Gabriele Valentini The Best-of-n Problem in Robot Swarms PhD awarded on July 4, 2016     Andreagiovanni Reina A Design Pattern for the Best-of-n Decision Problem PhD awarded on July 4, 2016     Luca Maria Gambardella Coupling Ant Colony System with Local Search PhD awarded on June 24, 2015     Arne Brutschy Enabling Research on Complex Tasks in Swarm Robotics. Novel Conceptual and Practical Tools PhD awarded on December 17, 2014     Carlo Pinciroli On the Design and Implementation of an Accurate, Efficient, and Flexible Simulator for Heterogeneous Swarm Robotics Systems PhD awarded on April 28, 2014     Manuele Brambilla Formal Methods for the Design and Analysis of Robot Swarms PhD awarded on April 28, 2014     Eliseo Ferrante Information Transfer in a Flocking Robot Swarm PhD awarded on August 27, 2013     Tianjun Liao Population-based Heuristic Algorithms for Continuous and Mixed Discrete-Continuous Optimization Problems PhD awarded on June 28, 2013     Giovanni Pini Towards Autonomous Task Partitioning in Swarm Robotics PhD awarded on June 14, 2013     Marco A. Montes de Oca Roldán Incremental Social Learning in Swarm Intelligence Systems PhD awarded on July 1, 2011     Alexandre Campo On the Design of Self-Organized Decision Making in Robot Swarms PhD awarded on May 24, 2011     Rehan O'Grady Morphologically Responsive Self-assembling Robots PhD awarded on October 7, 2010     Prasanna Balaprakash Estimation-based Metaheuristics for Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization: Case Studies in Stochastic Routing Problems PhD awarded on January 26, 2010     Christos Ampatzis On the Evolution of Autonomous Time-based Decision-making and Communication in Collective Robotics PhD awarded on November 10, 2008     Shervin Nouyan Teamwork in a Swarm of Robots -- An Experiment in Search and Retrieval PhD awarded on September 24, 2008     Anders L. Christensen Fault Detection in Autonomous Robots -- Endogenous Fault Detection Through Fault Injection and Learning - Exogenous Fault Detection Based on Firefly-inspired Synchronization PhD awarded on June 27, 2008     Krzysztof Socha Ant Colony Optimization for Continuous and Mixed-Variable Domains PhD awarded on May 9, 2008     Roderich Gross Self-assembling Robots PhD awarded on October 12, 2007     Thomas H. Labella Division of Labour in Groups of Robots PhD awarded on February 9, 2007     Leonora Bianchi Ant Colony Optimization and Local Search for the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem: A Case Study in Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization PhD awarded on June 29, 2006     Vito Trianni On the Evolution of Self-organising Behaviours in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots PhD awarded on June 26, 2006     Mauro Birattari The Problem of Tuning Metaheuristics, as Seen from a Machine Learning Perspective PhD awarded on December 20, 2004     Gianni Di Caro Ant Colony Optimization and its Application to Adaptive Routing in Telecommunication Networks PhD awarded on November 10, 2004     Christian Blum Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Ant Colony Optimization PhD awarded on February 6, 2004             Yuwei Zhang (Beihang University, Beijing, China) Oct 2019 - Apr 2021   Yating Zheng (Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China) Sep 2018 - Dec 2020   Majd Kassawat (Universidad Jaume I, Castello de la Plana, Spain) Jun 2018 - Dec 2018   Bernat Wiandt (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Oct 2015 - Mar 2016   Mikhail Afanasov (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Feb 2015 - Apr 2015   Manuel Castillo (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Feb 2013 - May 2013   Yara Khaluf (University of Paderborn, Germany) Sep 2011 - Jan 2012   Jessica Rivera Espinosa (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Sep 2009 - Nov 2009   Levent Bayindir (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey) Apr 2009 - Apr 2010   Navneet Bhalla (University of Calgary, Canada) Oct 2007 - Mar 2008   Alvaro Gutiérrez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Jun 2007 - Nov 2007   Jodelson Sabino (Pontifìcia Universitade Catòlica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Oct 2005 - Sep 2006   Federico Vicentini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Jun 2005 - Dec 2005   Paola Pellegrini (Università degli Studi di Venezia, Italy) Jan 2005 - Dec 2005   Stephen Gilmoure (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) Sep 2005 - Oct 2005   Michael Bonani (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Sep 2004 - Mar 2005   Philipp Kostuch (University of Oxford, UK) Oct 2003 - Mar 2004   Elio Tuci (University of Sussex, UK) Nov 2002 - Jun 2003   Morgan Tamplin (University of Edinburgh, UK) May 2002 - Apr 2003   Vito Trianni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Oct 2001 - Sep 2002   Mark Zlochin (Technion, Israel) Jun 2001 - May 2002   Andrea Roli (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy) Nov 2000 - May 2001 Last modified: February 29 2024 11:09:58.