Bio4Res

Novel Bioinspired Optimization Techniques for Resilience and Sustainability

Category: Applications

Carlos Cotta chairing a session at GECCO 2024
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Bio4Res at GECCO 2024

The GECCO 2024 conference took place in Melbourne (Australia) from July 14h to July 18th. This edition was locally organized by Xiaodong Li as General Chair, Julia Handl as Editor-in-Chief, and Markus Wagner as Local Chair. GECCO is presently the leading global conference in evolutionary computation, and once again this year’s edition certainly met expectations. Although the hybrid format made a part of the audience not being present on-site, most renowned EC experts in the world gathered at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre for the event.

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Carlos Cotta julio 30, 2024
supermarket simulation
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Bio4Res at PAAMS 2024

The 22nd International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent System (PAAMS 2024) was held in Salamanca from June 26th to June 28th in hybrid format, alongisde the Salamanca Tech Summit. In this edition, PAAMS featured a demo track in which practical applications of multi-agent systems were exhibitted along the corresponding scientific paper. We had the pleasure of taking part in this track with our work on agent-based cellular automata for simulating pedestrian evacuation from indoor environments.

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Carlos Cotta julio 4, 2024
Applications

Bio4Res Work Receives the 2nd Best Paper Award at MAEB 2024

Carlos Cotta, one of the principal investigators of the Bio4Res project, has been the recipient of the 2nd Best Paper Award at MAEB 2024, for his work «Un Algoritmo Memético para la Optimización de la Evacuación de Interiores» presented at the MAEB 2024 conference, held within CAEPIA 2024. The award was bestowed during the closing ceremony of the conference and is testimony to the practical relevance of the work carried out in the project.

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Carlos Cotta junio 26, 2024
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Bio4Res at MAEB 2024

The 15th edition of the Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Evolutionary and Bioinspired Algorithms (MAEB 2024) was held within the Conference of the Spanish IA Association (CAEPIA 2024) in the premises of the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of A Coruña, and was scientifically organized by David Camacho and Juan Ramón Rabuñal. As usual, the conference gathered most of the leading Spanish researchers in the field, as well as a notable representation of younger researchers.

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Carlos Cotta junio 24, 2024
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Bio4Res at EvoStar 2024

The EvoStar 2024 conference took place in the picturesque coastal town of Aberystwyth (Wales, UK) from April 3rd to April 5th, in the Conference Suit of Aberystwyth University.

Held under the auspices of the SPECIES society and locally organized by Christine Zarges, the conference gathered the usual mixture of young and experienced researchers from all over the world, once again providing a great atmosphere and the perfect relaxed and welcoming environment that conference regulars know so well.

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Carlos Cotta mayo 2, 2024
David Bueno
Applications

David Bueno, Recipient of an AI and Advanced Technology Award

Dr. David Bueno, member of the Bio4Res team, has been one of the recipients of the 2023 AI and Advanced Technology Awards from Madrid’s Town Council. Jointly with José Manuel López (Visitas Virtuales), they created Almudena, a realistic avatar, who is capable of recognizing the user’s voice and providing information on how to recycle in Madrid, something essential for sustainability, which is one of the corner stones of the Bio4Res project.

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Carlos Cotta abril 26, 2024
Evolutionary Algorithms

Keynote at the IDEAL 2023 Conference

The 24th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2023) took place in Évora, Portugal, November 22-24, 2023. Locally organized by Paulo Quaresma, Vítor Nogueira and Teresa Gonçalves and chaired by Paulo Quaresma, David Camacho and Hujun Yin, the conference brought together researchers interested in intelligent data analysis, data mining and their associated learning systems and paradigms. Carlos Cotta, member of the Bio4Res Team was honored to be a Keynote Speaker at this conference.

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Carlos Cotta febrero 5, 2024
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Bio4Res at HAIS 2023

The 18th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2023) took place in the historical city of Salamanca (Spain), on September 5th-7th. This is a long running event whose current edition has been co-chaired by Emilio Corchado and Héctor Quintián. It was held in the historical building of the Colegio Mayor de Fonseca, a magnificient college founded in 1519, in conjunction with two other related scientific conferences, namely SOCO 2023 and CISIS 2023, as well as with a entrepeneurship event, the Startup OLE 2023.

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Carlos Cotta septiembre 26, 2023
GECCO 2023
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Bio4Res at GECCO 2023

The GECCO 2023 conference took place in Lisbon (Portugal) from July 15th to July 19th. This year, the event was locally organized by Sara Silva as General Chair, Luís Paquete as Editor-in-Chief, and Leonardo Vanneschi as Local Chair. GECCO is currently the top world conference in the area of evolutionary comutation, and this edition certainly lived up to the expectations, bringing together both the world’s most recognized researchers in this field as well as younger researchers who are bringing new blood, ideas and enthusiasm to the community.

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Carlos Cotta julio 21, 2023
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Bio4Res at EvoStar 2023

The EvoStar 2023 conference took place in Brno (Czech Republic) from April 12th to April 14th, in the premises of the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) of the Brno University of Technology (BUT). Held under the auspices of the SPECIES society and locally organized by Jiří Jaroš and Lukáš Sekanina, the conference gathered a lively mixture of young and experienced researchers from all over the world and provided the friendly environment and socially cohesive atmosphere that has become one of the trademarks of this event.

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Carlos Cotta abril 18, 2023