International Research Events
Current Events in Progress
IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation (IEEE IComputation 2021), part of IEEE SSCI 2021, 5-8 Dec. 2021, Orlando, Florida, USA
14th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2022), 11-14 July 2022, Ortigia-Syracuse, Italy
International Conference on Optimization and Learning (OLA 2022), 18-20 July 2022, Ortigia-Syracuse, Italy
IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation (IEEE IComputation 2022), part of IEEE SSCI 2022, 4-7 Dec. 2022, Singapore
3rd international biennal Metaheuristics Summer School (MESS 2023), TBA
Current Special Issues in Progress
Immune Computation: Algorithms & Applications, s.i. in Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier.
Edts: Zaineb Chelly, Licheng Jiao, Wenjian Luo, Mario Pavone, Slawomir T. Wierzchoń
Past Events Organized
MESS 2020+1 - 2nd international Metaheuristics Summer School, 15 - 18 June 2021, Department of Economics & Business, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (link)OLA 2021 - International Conference on Optimization and Learning, 21 - 23 June 2021, Department of Economics & Business, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (link)
IEEE IComputation 2020 - IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation, part of IEEE SSCI 2020, 1-4 Dec. 2020, Canberra, Australia (link)
IEEE IComputation 2019 - IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation, part of IEEE SSCI 2019 - 6-9 Dec. 2019, Xiamen, China (link)
MESS 2018 - international Metaheuristics Summer School, 21-25 July 2018, Acireale-Catania, Italy (link)
IEEE IComputation 2018 - IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation, part of IEEE SSCI 2018 - 18-21 Nov. 2018, Bengaluru, India (link)
DTMBio 2018 - ACM 12th International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics, in conjunction with ACM 27th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) - 22-26 October 2018, Turin, Italy (link)
Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory, IEEE CEC 2018/IEEE WCCI 2018 special session - 8-13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (link)
Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory, IEEE CEC 2017 special session, 5-8 June 2017, Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain (link)
Bio-inspired Fuzzy Logic Approaches - Interdisciplinary Emergent Technologies, FUZZ-IEEE 2017, 9-12 July, 2017, Naples, Italy (link)
Rough Sets and Fuzzy Rough Hybridization with Bio-Inspired Optimization Techniques, FUZZ-IEEE 2017, 9-12 July, 2017, Naples, Italy (link)
HM 2016 - 10th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, June 8-10 2016, Plymouth, UK (link)
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization - at the 28th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2016), July 3-6 2016, Poznań, Poland (link)
Bio-inspired Fuzzy Logic Approaches - Interdisciplinary Emergent Technologies - special session at IEEE-WCCI 2016, FUZZ-IEEE 2016, 25-29 July 2016, Vancouver, Canada (link)
ICSI3 2015 - 1st International Congress on Systems Immunology, Immunoinformatics & Immune-computation, July 17-18 2015, Taormina - Sicily, Italy (link)
SSBSS 2015 - international Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School, July 5-9 2015, Taormina - Sicily, Italy (link)
MOD 2015 - 1st International Workshop on Machine Learning, Optimization & big Data, July 21-23 2015, Taormina - Sicily, Italy (link)
SSBSS 2014 - international Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School, June 15-19 2014, Taormina - Sicily, Italy (link)
Recent developments in swarm intelligence, special session at International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (#24), October 27-31 2014, Marrakech, Morocco (link)
ECAL 2013 - 21th European Conference on Artificial Life, September 2-6 2013, Taormina - Sicily, Italy (link)
ICARIS 2012 - 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, August 28-31 2012, Taormina - Sicily, Italy (link)
PPSN 2012 - 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, September 1-5 2012, Taormina - Sicily, Italy (link)
ICARIS 2011 - 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, July 18-21, Cambridge, UK. (link)
NCB 2010 - Natural Computation in BioInformatics, special session at the 24th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIV), July 11-14, Lisbon, Portugal. (link)
NICSO 2010 - 4th International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, May 12-14, Granada, Spain.
MOMiNE 2009 - International Summer School on Modeling and Optimization in Micro- and Nano- Electronics, September 1 - 11, Cetraro, Cosenza, Italy.
NICSO 2008 - 3rd International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, November 12-14, Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife, Spain.
BNC 2008 - Bertinoro International Summer School on Natural Computation, September 20-27, University Residential Center, Bertinoro, Italy. (link)
International School of Functional Genomics 2008, July 5-19, Baia Samuele, Ragusa,Italy. Lectio Magistralis Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Laureate.
MOMiNE 2008 - International Summer School on Modeling and Optimization in Micro- and Nano- Electronics, June 14-28, Baia Samuele, Ragusa, Italy.
NICSO 2007 - 2nd International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, November 8-10, Acireale, Italy. (link)
WIVACE 2007 - Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale e Computazione Evolutiva (Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation), September 5-7, Baia Samuele, Ragusa, Italy. (link)
SECEVitA 2007 - Scuola Estiva in Computazione Evolutiva e Vita Artificiale (Italian Summer School on Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life), August 31 - September 4, Baia Samuele, Ragusa, Italy. (link)
ICARIS 2004 - 3rd International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, September 13-16, Catania, Italy.
Published Special Issues
Metaheuristics for Combinatorial Optimization: the MESS 2018 Metaheuristics Competition, chapter in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer. - Edts: Greco, Pavone, Talbi, Vigo
Foreword: Some Advances in Immune Computation and Applications - special issue in Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier. - Edts: Luo, Pavone, Coello Coello, Jiao, & Mehr (in press)Recent Advances in Immunological Inspired Computation - special issue in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, Vol. 62, 2017. - Edts: Coello Coello, Cutello, Lee, Pavone
Systems Immunology & Immunoinformatics - special issue in BMC Immunology, Vol. 18, Suppl. 1, 2017. - Edts: Pavone, Coello Coello, Cutello, Lee (link)
Intelligent Cloud Computing - special issue in Memetic Computing, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2016. - Edts: Pavone, Ramadan, Vasilakos
Advances in Artificial Life - special issue in Artificial Life, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2015. - Edts: Liò, Miglino, Nicosia, Nolfi, Pavone
Algorithms & Models for Complex Natural Systems - special issue in Natural Computing, Vol.14, No. 3, 2015. - Edts: Coello Coello, Franco, Krasnogor, Pavone
Optimization on Complex Systems - special issue in Memetic Computing, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2012. - Edts: Pavone, Coello Coello
Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization - special issue in Natural Computing, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2010. - Edts: Krasnogor, Nicosia, Pavone, Pelta