Main Research Interests

Scheduling and Timetabling Problems
Local Search & Metaheuristics for Combinatorial Problems
Problem Specification Languages and Tools
Optimization Software Tools

Research Collaborations

Conference Program Chair

9th Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC 2011), Udine (Italy), July 25-28 2011
6th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM-2009), Udine (Italy), October 16-17 2009

Recent Invited Talks

Invited Speaker at the 27th Annual Conference of the Belgian Operations Research Society (ORBEL 27), Kortrijk Belgium, 7 - 8 February, 2013.
Invited Speaker at the 12-esimo Workshop Nazionale "Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti" (WOA-2011), Rende (CS), Italia, 4 - 6 Luglio 2011

Recent Conference Program Committees

12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2012), 1-5 September, 2012, Taormina, Italy
9th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2012), 28-31 August, 2012, Son, Norway
14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2012), 28 june - 1 july, 2012, Wroclaw, Poland
3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2012),6-8 February, 2012, Vilamoura - Algarve, Portugal
1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2012), 4-6 February, 2012, Vilamoura - Algarve, Portugal
11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2011),November 22-24, 2011 - Córdoba, Spain
23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2011),Nov. 7-9, 2011, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
3rd International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2011) ,October, 14-16 2011, Dalian, China
3rd International Conference on Applied Operational Research (ICAOR 2011), 24-26 August 2011 Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
5th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA-2011) , Phoenix, Arizona (USA), August 9-12, 2011
18th RCRA International Workshop on "Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion" (RCRA 2011) , Barcelona, Spain, 17-18 July 2011
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Gecco 2011) , July 12-16, 2011, Dublin, Ireland
The Second International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2011), Chongqing, China, June 12-15, 2011
13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2011) , June 8-10, 2011, Beijin, China
International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO 11) 6-8th April, 2011, Salamanca, Spain
3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011) , Rome (Italy), January 28-30, 2011
5th Workshop on Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 5), Rome (Italy), January 17-21, 2011
10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA2010), Cairo (Egypt), November 29 - Dicember 1, 2010
22nd International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2010), Arras, France, 27-29 October, 2010.
7th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2010), Vienna (Austria), October 1-2 2010
8th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2010), Belfast, UK, 10th - 13th August, 2010.
9th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2010), Ischia Island (Italy), May 20-22 2010
4th Workshop on Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 4), Venice (Italy), January 18-22 2010
8th Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC 2009), Hamburg (Germany), July 13-16 2009
9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA09), Pisa (Italy), November 30 - Dicember 2 2009
Workshop on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms (SLS 2009), September 3-5, 2009, Brussels, Belgium
3rd Workshop on Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 3), Trento (Italy), January 14-18 2009
8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2008), Barcelona, Spain September 10-12, 2008
International Workshop on Scheduling in Healthcare Systems (SCHEALS'08), Yerevan, Armenia, September 15-16, 2008
1st International Conference on Applied Operational Research (ICAOR'08), Yerevan, Armenia, September 15-17, 2008
10th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM 2008), Fort Lauderdale, Florida (U.S.A.), January 2-4, 2008
7th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT-08) conference, Montréal, Canada, 19th - 22th August, 2008.
2nd International Workshop on Model Based Metaheuristics (Matheuristics 2008), June 16 - 18, 2008, Bertinoro, Italy
6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI-07), November 4-10, 2007 Aguascalientes, Mexico.
2nd Workshop on Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 2007 II), Trento (Italy), December 8-13 2007
Workshop on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms (SLS 2007), September 6-8, 2007, Brussels, Belgium
4th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2007), October 8-9, 2007, Dortmund, Germany
Workshop on Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 2007), Trento (Italy), February 12-18 2007
IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched), April 1-5, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii (U.S.A.).
5th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI-06), 13th - 17th November, 2006, Mexico.
3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2006), 13th - 15th October, 2006, Gran Canaria, Spain.
6th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT-06) conference, Brno, Czech Republic, 30th August - 1st September, 2006.
Third International Workshop on Local Search Techniques in Constraint Satisfaction, Nantes (France), September 25 2006
4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI-05), 14th - 18th November 2005, Monterrey, Mexico.
2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2005), 29th - 30th August, 2005, Barcelona, Spain.
2nd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA-05), 18th - 21st July 2005, New York, USA.
5th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT-04) conference, 18th-20th August, 2004, Pittsburgh, USA.
18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), 9th-15th August 2003, Acapulco, Mexico.
1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA-03), 13th-15th August 2003, Nottingham, UK.

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