Bio4Res
Novel Bioinspired Optimization Techniques for Resilience and Sustainability
News
New Paper on Memetic Algorithms
We are excited to share our latest research paper, “Harnessing Memetic Algorithms: A Practical Guide”, has just been published in Springer’s TOP journal. This work aims to provide a clear and practical guide to memetic algorithms (MAs) and how they can be applied to optimization problems. The paper is open access (thanks are due to the University of Málaga/CBUA), so everyone can read and benefit from it freely.
GECCO 2025 comes to Málaga!
As you may know, the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2025 will take place in Málaga this July. Gabriel Luque and I are proud to serve as Local Chairs, working alongside an amazing team led by Bogdan Filipič as General Chair and Gabriela Ochoa as Editor-in-Chief. Hosting a conference of this stature is an exciting challenge, and we are all working hard to ensure it lives up to the highest standards.
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.
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.
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.
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.