Dr. Mario Pavone
University of Catania
 
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  Refereed International Journal    
       
  M. Pavone, G. Narzisi and G. Nicosia, Clonal Selection - An Immunological Algorithm for Global Optimization over Continuous Spaces, Journal of Global Optimization, 2011.    [pdf, http]

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone and I. Prizzi, Protein Multiple Sequence Alignment by Hybrid Bio-Inspired Algorithms, Nucleic Acids Research, Oxford Journals, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 1980-1992, 2011.    [pdf, http]

V. Cutello, G. Morelli, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone and G. Scollo, On Discrete Models and Immunological Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction, Natural Computing Journal, special issue on Modelling Bioprocesses, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 91-102, 2011.    [http]

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, An Immune Algorithm with Stochastic Aging and Kullback Entropy for the Chromatic Number Problem, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 9-33, 2007    [pdf, http]

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone and J. Timmis, An Immune Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction on Lattice Models, IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 101-117, 2007    [pdf, http]
   
       
     
       

  Refereed Conference Proceedings    
       
  D. Agostini, J. Costanza, V. Cutello, L. Zammataro, N. Krasnogor, M. Pavone, and G. Nicosia, Effective Calibration of Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks, 20th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), pp. 39-46, MIT Press, Paris, France, August 8-12, 2011.    [pdf, http]

G. Stracquadanio, R. Umeton, J. Costanza, V. Annibali, R. Mechelli, M. Pavone, L. Zammataro, and G. Nicosia, Large Scale Agent-Based Modeling of the Humoral and Cellular Immune Response, 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), LNCS 6825, pp. 15-29, Springer-Verlag, Cambridge, UK, July 18-21, 2011.    [pdf, http]

J. Costanza, V. Cutello, and M. Pavone, A Memetic Immunological Algorithm for Resource Allocation Problem, 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), LNCS 6825, pp. 308-320, Springer-Verlag, Cambridge, UK, July 18-21, 2011.    [pdf, http]

M. Pavone, P system Reverse Engineering for Gene Regulatory Networks in S-system Model, Unifying Themes in Complex Systems - Volume VIII, proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS), New England Complex Systems Institute, pp. 492-503, Quincy, MA, USA, June 26 - July 1, 2011.

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone, and G. Stracquadanio, Entropic Divergence for Population Based Optimization Algorithms, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), IEEE Press, pp. 1-8, Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23, 2010.    [pdf, http]

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone and G. Stracquadanio, An Information Theoretic Approach for Clonal Selection Algorithms, 9th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), LNCS 6209, pp. 144-157, Springer-Verlag, Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2010    [pdf, http]

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone and I. Prizzi, Proteomic Multiple Sequence Alignments: Refinement using an Immunological Local Search, Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Italy II, Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences, vol. 75, pp. 291-302, World Scientific, 2007.

V. Cutello, N. Krasnogor, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, Immune Algorithm versus Differential Evolution: A Comparative Case Study Using High Dimensional Function Optimization, International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA), LNCS 4431, pp. 93-101, Springer-Verlag, Warsaw, Poland, April 11-14, 2007.

V. Cutello, D. Lee, S. Leone, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, Clonal Selection Algorithm with Dynamic Population Size for Bimodal Search Spaces, 2nd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC), LNCS 4221, pp. 949-958, Springer-Verlag, Xi'an, China, September 24-28, 2006.

V. Cutello, D. Lee, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone and I. Prizzi, Aligning Multiple Protein Sequences by Hybrid Clonal Selection Algorithm with Insert-Remove-Gaps and BlockShuffling Operators, 5th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), LNCS 4163, pp. 321-334, Springer-Verlag, Oeiras, Portugal, September 4-6, 2006.

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone and G. Narzisi, Real Coded Clonal Selection Algorithm for Unconstrained Global Numerical Optimization using a Hybrid Inversely Proportional Hypermutation Operator, 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), ACM vol. 2, pp. 950-954, Dijon, France, April 23-27, 2006.    [pdf]

V. Cutello, G. Narzisi, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, An Immunological Algorithm for Global Numerical Optimization, 7th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA), LNCS 3871, pp. 284-295, Springer-Verlag, Lille, France, October 26-28, 2005.    [pdf]

V. Cutello, G. Narzisi, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, Clonal Selection Algorithms: A Comparative Case Study using Effective Mutation Potentials, 4th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), LNCS 3627, pp. 13-28, Springer-Verlag, Banff, Alberta, Canada, August 14-17, 2005.    [pdf]

V. Cutello, G. Morelli, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, Immune Algorithms with Aging Operators for the String Folding Problem and the Protein Folding Problem, 5th European Conference on Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EVOCOP), LNCS 3448, pp. 80-90, Springer-Verlag, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 30-April 1,  2005.

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, Exploring the Capability of Immune Algorithms: A Characterization of Hypermutation Operators, 3rd International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), LNCS 3239, pp. 263-276, Springer-Verlag, Catania, Italy, September 13-16, 2004.    [pdf]

V. Cutello, G. Narzisi, G.Nicosia, M. Pavone and G. Sorace, How to Escape Traps Using Clonal Selection Algorithms, 1st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), INSTICC Press, Vol. 1, pp. 322-326, Setubal, Portugal, August 25-28, 2004.

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, An Immune Algorithm with Hyper-Macromutations for the Dill's 2D Hydrophobic - Hydrophilic Model, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), IEEE Press, Vol. 1, pp. 1074-1080, Portland, Oregon, June 19-23, 2004.    [.PDF]

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, A Hybrid Immune Algorithm with Information Gain for the Graph Coloring Problem, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO), LNCS 2723, pp. 171-182, Springer-Verlag, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 12-16, 2003.    [pdf]

A. Cincotti, V. Cutello and M. Pavone, Graph Partitioning with Genetic Algorithms using ODPX, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), IEEE Press, pp. 402-406, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002.

A. Cincotti, V. Cutello, F. Pappalardo and M. Pavone, GPEG: Graph Partitioning using Evolutionary Games, 9th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainly in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU), Vol. 2, pp. 817-821, Annecy, France, July 1-5, 2002.
   
       
     
       

  Abstract, Communications and other publications    
       
  M. Pavone, Parameters Optimization in S-System Models using Population-based Reverse Engineering Methods, SIAM Conference on OPTIMIZATION (OP11), page 84, Darmstadt, Germany, May 16-19, 2011.    [http]

N. Krasnogor, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone, D.A. Pelta, Editorial: Special Issue on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, Natural Computing Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-3, 2010.    [http]

M. Pavone and N. Krasnogor, A Memetic Clonal Selection Algorithm for a Combinatorial Optimization Problem, 8th Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT), Aveiro, Portugal, July 9-10, 2010.

M. Pavone and N. Krasnogor, Bio-Inspired Reverse Engineering Methodologies to Infer the Gene Regulatory Networks, 24th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIV), Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-14, 2010.

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, Optimization Algorithms for the Protein Structure Prediction Problem, 24th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIV), Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-14, 2010.

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, An Hybrid Immunological Algorithm for Combinatorial Optimization, Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Naples, Italy, November 23-25, 2009.

V. Cutello, G. Narzisi, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, Robust Immunological Algorithms for High-Dimensional Global Optimization, Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Naples, Italy, November 23-25, 2009.
   
       
     
       

  Books and Journals coedited    
       
  N. Krasnogor, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone and D. Pelta, Natural Computing, special issue on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, Vol. 9, issue 1, Springer, March 2010.    [http]

N. Krasnogor, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone and D. Pelta, 2nd International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2007), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 129, Springer-Verlag, 2008.    [http]
   
       
     
       

  Italian Journal    
       
  G. Nicosia, M. Giacobini, M. Pavone and L. Vanneschi, Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale e Computazione Evolutiva (WIVACE 2007), Sistemi Intelligenti, Società editrice Il Mulino, a. XX, n.2/agosto 2008    
       
     
       

  Thesis    
       
  M. Pavone, Biologically Inspired Algorithms for Partitioning, Coloring and Protein Structure Prediction Problems, PhD. Thesis, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, December 2003.

M. Pavone, Planar Graphs: testing algorithms and their embedding, Master's Thesis, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, October 1999.
   
       
     
       



     
       
   
       
       

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