International Events


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International Summer Schools


International Conferences

ECAL 2013 12th European Conference on Artificial Life - ECAL 2013, September 2-6 2013, Taormina, Italy.
Chairs: Pietro Lio', Orazio Miglino, Giuseppe Nicosia, Stefano Nolfi, Mario Pavone.
LION 7 Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference - LION 7, Catania - Italy, Jan 7-11, 2013.
Chairs: Panos Pardalos, Giuseppe Nicosia.
PPSN 2012 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature - PPSN 2012, September 2012, Taormina - Sicily, Italy, Programme Chair.
ICARIS 2012 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, Taormina - Sicily, Italy, 28-31 August, 2012, Co-Chair.
ICARIS 2011 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, University of Cambridge - UK, 18-21 July, 2011, Co-Chair.
NICSO 2007 The Second International Workshop on Nature-Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization - NICSO 2007, 8-10 November 2007, Acireale, Catania, Italy, Co-Chair.
FOCI 2007 The First IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence - FOCI 2007, 1-5 April 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Special Session Chair.
FOCI 2007 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation - (EC)2AI/GSICE 2006, at the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006). , Riva del Garda, Italy, August 28 - September 1st 2006, Co-Chair.
FOCI 2007 The 8th Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics - SIMAI 2006, Baia Samuele (Ragusa) Italy, May 22-26, 2006, Co-Chair.
NAIS 2005 Int. workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems - NAIS 2006, Vietri sul Mare (SA) Italy, 9-10 June 2005, Co-Chair.
ICARIS 2004 3rd Int. Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2004, Catania, Italy, 13-16 September 2004, Co-Chair.

Minisymposia and Special Sessions Chaired

Co-Chair of the Minisymposium on "Modeling and Optimization in Nano-Electronics", Chairs: Giuseppe Nicosia and Vittorio Romano, The 17th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry - ECMI 2012, July 23-27, 2012, Lund, Sweden.
Co-Chair of the Workshop on "Biological CAD", Chairs: Pietro Lio' and Giuseppe Nicosia, 12th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2011), August 27 - September 1, 2011, Heidelberg/Mannheim, Germany.
Chair of the Minisymposium on "Randomized Search Heuristics: Theoretical Aspects and Real World Applications", SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP11), May 16-19, 2011, Darmstadtium Conference Center, Darmstadt, Germany.
Organizers: Giuseppe Nicosia - University of Catania - Italy and Peter Oliveto - School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
Speakers:
  • Giuseppe Nicosia, Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy, "Real-world applications of randomized and deterministic search heuristics"
  • Nikolaus Hansen, INRIA, University Paris-Sud, France, "Stochastic second-order methods for function-value free numerical optimization"
  • Anne Auger, INRIA, University Paris-Sud, France, "Convergence properties of Evolution Strategies"
  • Carsten Witt, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, "Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics in Combinatorial Optimization"
SIMAI 2008 - Minisymposium on "Optimization Problems in Industry", Co-Chair.
KES 2007 - Special Session on Immunity-Based Systems, Co-Chair.
SIMAI 2006 - Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Modeling in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Co-Chair.
SIMAI 2006 - Minimsymposium on Optmization, Chair.

National Events

WIVACE 2007 - Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale e Computazione Evolutiva, 5-7 Settembre '07 - Baia Samuele, Sampieri, Ragusa, Co-Chair.
SECEVitA 2007 - Prima Scuola Estiva in Computazione Evolutiva e Vita Artificiale, 31 Agosto - 4 Settembre '07, Baia Samuele, Ragusa, Co-Director.

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Giuseppe Nicosia, Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Numerical Optimization, Non Linear Optimization, Large Scale Optimization, Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Immune Algorithms, Artificial Immune Systems, Graph Coloring, String Folding, NP-complete problems, Circuit Optimization, Circuit Design, Design For Yield, Device Optimization, Bioinformatics, Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Folding, Protein Structure Prediction, HP model.