Publications

M. Pavone, G. Narzisi and G. Nicosia, Clonal Selection - An Immunological Algorithm for Global Optimization over Continuous Spaces , Journal of Global Optimization, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 769-808, 2012.    [pdf]

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]

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.    [pdf]

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]

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]

 

Conference Proceedings

R.A. Scollo, V. Cutello, and M. Pavone Where the Local Search Affects Best in an Immune Algorithm, 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) 2020. (to appear in LNCS)

S. Greco, M.Pavone, E.G. Talbi, and D. Vigo, Metaheuristics for Combinatorial Optimization, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer. (in press)

C. Crespi, G. Fargetta, M. Pavone, R.A. Scollo, and L. Scrimali, A Game Theory Approach for Crowd Evacuation Modelling, 9^th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimisation Methods and Their Applications (BIOMA), LNCS 12438, pp. 228-239, November 19-20, 2020.    [pdf]

C. Crespi, R.A. Scollo, and M. Pavone, Effects of Different Dynamics in an Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm, IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence 2020. (in memory of Prof. Lotfi Zadeh), IEEE Press, pp. 8-11, November 14-15, 2020.    [pdf]

V. Cutello, M. Oliva, M. Pavone and R.A. Scollo, An Immune Metaheuristics for Large Instances of the Weighted Feedback Vertex Set Problem, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2019), IEEE Press, pp. 1-9, INSPEC Accession Number: 19392542, Xiamen, China, December 6-9, 2019.    [pdf]

A.G. Spampinato, R.A. Scollo, S. Cavallaro, V. Cutello, and M. Pavone, An Immunological Algorithm for Graph Modularity Optimization, 19th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2019), Advances in Computational Intelligent Systems, part of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC), Springer, Vol. 1043, pp. 235-247, 2020.    [pdf]

C. Crespi, A.G. Spampinato, R.A. Scollo and M. Pavone, ACOLABS: an Ant Colony for Labyrinth Solving, XIV International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE 2019).    [pdf]

V. Cutello, M. Oliva, M. Pavone and A.R. Scollo, A Hybrid Immunological Search for the Weighted Feedback Vertex Set Problem, 13^th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (LION), LNCS 11968, pp. 1-16, Chania, Crete, Greece, May 27-31, 2019.    [pdf]

A. Plebe, V. Cutello and M. Pavone, Optimizing Costs and Quality of Interior Lighting by Genetic Algorithm, Studies in Computational Intelligence book series, Springer, vol.829, pp. 19-39, 2019. (selected paper from IJCCI 2017)    [pdf]

A. Vitale, A. Di Stefano, V. Cutello, and M. Pavone, The Influence of Age Assignments on the Performance of Immune Algorithms, 18^th Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series, vol 840, pp. 16-28, Springer-Verlag, Nottingham, UK, September 5-7, 2018.    [pdf]

A. Plebe, V. Cutello, and M. Pavone, Evolving Illumination Design Following Genetic Strategies, 9^th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), pp. 289-296, 2017.    [pdf]

A. Plebe, and M. Pavone, Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm for Interior Lighting Design, 3^rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data (MOD), LNCS 10710, pp. 222-233, Volterra, Tuscany, Italy, September 14-17, 2018.    [pdf]

C.M. Pintea, O. Matei, R.A. Ramadan, M. Pavone, M. Niazi, and A. Taher, A Fuzzy Approach of Sensitivity for Multiple Colonies on Ant Colony Optimization, 7^th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications (SOFA), Soft Computing Applications, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 634, pp. 87-95, Arad, Romania, August 24-26, 2018.    [pdf]

T. Calenda, A. Di Stefano, A. Vitale, V. Cutello, and M. Pavone, Optimizing the Individuals Maturation for Maximizing the Evolutionary Learning, XII Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), pp. 27-30, Venice, Italy, September 19-21, 2017.

A. Di Stefano, A. Vitale, V. Cutello, and M. Pavone, How long should Offspring Lifespan be in order to obtain a proper exploration?, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), IEEE Press, pp. 1-8, INSPEC Accession Number: 16670548, Athens, Greece, December 6-9, 2016.    [pdf]

P. Conca, G. Stracquadanio, O. Greco, V. Cutello, M. Pavone and G. Nicosia, Packing equal disks in a unit square: an immunological optimization approach, 1^st International Congress on Systems Immunology, Immunoinformatics & Immune-computation (ICSI³), IEEE Press, Taormina, Italy, July 17-18, 2015.    [pdf]

P. Consoli, and M. Pavone, O-BEE-COL: Optimal BEEs for COLoring Graphs, Biennial International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA), LNCS 8752, pp. 243-255, Springer-Verlag, Bordeaux, France, October 21-23, 2013.    [pdf]

P. Consoli, A. Collerà, and M. Pavone, Swarm Intelligence Heuristics for Graph Coloring Problem, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), vol. 1, pp. 1909-1916, IEEE Press, Cancún, México, June 20-23, 2013.    [pdf]

V. Cutello, A. G. De Michele, and M. Pavone, Escaping Local Optima via Parallelization and Migration, VI International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO), Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 512, pp. 141-152, Canterbury, UK, September 2-4, 2013.    [pdf]

A. G. De Michele, and M. Pavone, Multi-Threaded Genetic Algorithm for Escaping Local Optima, 4^th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, (META), Port El-Kantaoiui, Tunisia, October 27-31, 2012.

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]

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, 10^th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), LNCS 6825, pp. 15-29, Springer-Verlag, Cambridge, UK, July 18-21, 2011.    [pdf]

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

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]

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

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.    [pdf]

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

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, 5^th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), LNCS 4163, pp. 321-334, Springer-Verlag, Oeiras, Portugal, September 4-6, 2006.    [pdf]

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, 21^st 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, 7^th 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, 4^th 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, 5^th European Conference on Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EVOCOP), LNCS 3448, pp. 80-90, Springer-Verlag, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 30-April 1, 2005.    [pdf]

V. Cutello, G. Nicosia and M. Pavone, Exploring the Capability of Immune Algorithms: A Characterization of Hypermutation Operators, 3^rd 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, 1^st 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, vol. 1, pp. 402-406, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002.    [pdf]

A. Cincotti, V. Cutello, F. Pappalardo and M. Pavone, GPEG: Graph Partitioning using Evolutionary Games, 9^th 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.

 

Refereed Abstract Conference

S. Strano, V. Cutello and M. Pavone, An Immunological Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem, 28^th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO 2015), Catania, Italy, 28-30 May, 2015.

P. Consoli, A. Collerà and M. Pavone, Which Artificial Colony Seems to Be Most Suitable for Coloring a Map?, 11^th Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2013), Florence, Italy, 26-28 June, 2013.

P. Consoli and M. Pavone, Artificial Bee Colony for Graph Coloring Problem, 26^th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO | INFORMS MMXIII), Rome, Italy, 1-4 July, 2013.

A. G. De Michele and M. Pavone, Multi-Threaded Genetic Algorithm for Escaping Local Optima, 10^th Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT), Siauliai, Lithuania, July 5-7, 2012.

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.

M. Pavone and N. Krasnogor, A Memetic Clonal Selection Algorithm for a Combinatorial Optimization Problem, 8^th 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, 24^th 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, 24^th 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.

 

Editorials

W.Luo, M. Pavone, C. A. Coello Coello, L. Jiao, and R. Mehr, Foreword: Some Advances in Immune Computation and Applications, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier, Vol. 50, 100596, 2019.

C. A. Coello Coello, V. Cutello, D. Lee, and M. Pavone, Recent Advances in Immunological Inspired Computation, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, Vol. 62, 2017.

M. Pavone, R.A. Ramadan, A.V. Vasilakos, Intelligent Cloud Computing, Memetic Computing, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2016.

P. Liò, O. Miglino, G. Nicosia, S. Nolfi and M. Pavone, Advances in Artificial Life, Artificial Life, MIT, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2015.

C.A. Coello Coello, F. Franco, N. Krasnogor and M. Pavone, Algorithms and Models for Complex Natural Systems, Natural Computing, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 339-340, 2015.

M. Pavone and C.A. Coello Coello, Optimization on Complex Systems, Memetic Computing, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 163-164, 2012.

N. Krasnogor, G. Nicosia, M. Pavone, D.A. Pelta, Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, Natural Computing Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-3, 2010.

 

Books and Journals Co-Edited

M.J. Blesa, C. Blum, A. Cangelosi, V. Cutello, A. Di Nuovo, M. Pavone and E.G. Talbi, 10^th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2016), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 9668, 2016.

C.A. Coello Coello, V. Cutello, D. Lee, M. Pavone and L. Zammataro, International Workshop on Artificial Immune Systems - International Congress on Systems Immunology, Immunoinformatics & Immune-computation (AIS 2015 & ICSI³ 2015), IEEE Press, No. CFP15B90-ART, 2015.

P. Pardalos, M. Pavone, G.M. Farinella and V. Cutello, 1th International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization, and big Data (MOD 2015), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 9432, 2015.

P. Liò, O. Miglino, G. Nicosia, S. Nolfi and M. Pavone, Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 2013), Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Life, MIT Press, 2013.

C.A. Coello Coello, V. Cutello, K. Deb, S. Forrest, G. Nicosia, and M. Pavone, 12^th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Part I, Springer, vol. 7491, 2012.

C.A. Coello Coello, V. Cutello, K. Deb, S. Forrest, G. Nicosia, and M. Pavone, 12^th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Part II, Springer, vol. 7492, 2012.

C.A. Coello Coello, J. Greensmith, N. Krasnogor, P. Liò, G. Nicosia, and M. Pavone 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 7597, 2012.

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.

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.

 

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.

 

Theses

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.