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Scientific Boards Membership

  • Member of the Editorial Board for the Memetic Computing Journal published by Springer.
  • Member of the Editorial Board for the Neural Computing and Applications Journal published by Springer.
  • Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College.
  • Referee for the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
  • Referee for the Newton Fund Programme (British Council).
  • International referee for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
  • International referee for the Belgium Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).
  • International referee for the Council of Physical Sciences of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
  • Guest Co-editor (with Jens Gottlieb, Nysret Musliu and Eric Soubeiga) of feature cluster in Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms (JMMA) Vol. 7(1) on selected papers from the 4th EU/ME International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of Advanced Hybrid Metaheuristics, Nottingham, November 2004.

    Programme/Technical Committees Membership

  • International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD 2018 to LOD 2023).
  • Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (from LION 2010 to LION 2023).
  • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (from CEC 2004 to CEC 2023).
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (from GECCO 2006 to GECCO 2020).
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (from IJCAI 2019 to IJCAI 2020).
  • International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (from ICORES 2012 to ICORES 2020).
  • International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (from HAIS 2010 to HAIS 2020).
  • International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (from ECTA 2013 to ECTA 2019).
  • International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (from ICAPS 2017 to ICAPS 2019).
  • IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (from SSCI 2009 to SSCI 2018).
  • Conferencia de la Asociacion Espanola para la Inteligencia Artificial (CAEPIA 2009, CAEPIA 2018).
  • International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (from EMO 2005 to EMO 2013, EMO 2017).
  • International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (from PPSN 2012 to PPSN 2016).
  • Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (from MICAI 2013 to MICAI 2016).
  • 38 Congreso Internacional de Ingeneria Electronica (ELECTRO 2016).
  • Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (from UKCI 2013 to UKCI 2015).
  • Congreso Espanol sobre Metaheuristicas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (from MAEB 2009 to MAEB 2015).
  • Taller Latino-Ibero-Americano de Investigacion de Operaciones (TLAIO 2013)
  • Congreso de la Sociedad Mexicana de Investigacion de Operaciones (SMIO 2012, SMIO 2013).
  • International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (from NWeSP 2011 to NWeSP 2013).
  • International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (from CASoN 2011 to CASoN 2013).
  • World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2011, NaBIC 2013).
  • International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2010, NICSO 2011, NICSO 2013).
  • Special Session 'Cross-Fertilisation of Parallel and Metaheuristics Techniques' at the 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (PDP 2012).
  • Simulated Evolution and Learning (from SEAL 2010 to SEAL 2012).
  • IEEE International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST 2011, iCAST 2012).
  • Special Session on EMO at the 21st International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM 2011).
  • 6th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC 2011).
  • IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI 2011).
  • 2nd International Symposium on Aware Computing (ISAC 2010).
  • Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG 2006).
  • First Conference on OR Practice in Africa (ORPA 2005).
  • 4th EU/ME International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of Advanced Hybrid Meta-heuristics, Nottingham, November 2004.
  • 2nd EU/ME Workshop on Multiobjective Metaheuristics, Paris, November 2002.

    Reviewer for Scientific Journals

  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
  • Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Annals of Operations Research
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Applied Mathematics and Computation
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • Cogent Engineering
  • Computational Optimization and Applications
  • Computers and Industrial Engineering
  • Computers and Mathematics with Aplications
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • European Journal of Industrial Engineering
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Evolutionary Computation
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
  • Information Sciences
  • International Journal of Production Research
  • International Journal of Systems Science
  • International Transactions on Operational Research
  • Journal on Computing (INFORMS)
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Journal of Global Optimization
  • Journal of Heuristics
  • Journal of Multi-criteria Decision Analysis
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • Journal of Scheduling
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Journal of Vehicle Routing Algorithms
  • Memetic Computing
  • Neural Computing and Applications
  • Operations Research for Healthcare
  • Operations Research Perspectives
  • Soft Computing
  • Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
  • The Computer Journal
  • TOP Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research

    Book Reviews

  • Design of Modern Heuristics By F. Rothlauf -- Review
  • Practical Goal Programming By D. Jones and M. Tamiz -- Review
  • Artificial Ants By N. Monmarche, F. Guinand and P. Siarry -- Review
  • Cellular Genetic Algorithms By E. Alba and B. Dorronsoro -- Review
  • Linear Programming and its Applications By H.A. Eiselt and C.L. Sandblom -- Review
  • Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services By M. Pinedo -- Review
  • Operations Management By T. Hill -- Review
  • Project Management: A Strategic Planning Approach By P. Gardiner -- Review
  • An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal History By S.I. Gass and A.A. Assad -- Review
  • Spanning Trees and Optimization Problems By K-M Chao -- Review
  • Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms By F. Rothlauf -- Review
  • A First Systems Book: Technology and Management By M. Myers and A. Kaposi -- Review

    Sessions and Streams Organisation

  • Chair of the Stream on "Timetabling and Rostering", IFORS 2014, Barcelona, July 2014.
  • Co-chair (with Rong Qu and Kay Chen Tan) of the Special Session on "Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization", CEC 2013, Cancun, July 2013.
  • Co-chair (with Nysret Musliu and Tim Curtois) of the Stream on "Timetabling and Rostering", EURO/INFORMS 2013, Rome, July 2013.
  • Co-chair (with Frank Neumann) of the Track on "Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimisation", GECCO 2012, Philadelphia, July 2012.
  • Co-chair (with Nysret Musliu and Tim Curtois) of the Stream on "Timetabling and Rostering", EURO 2012, Vilnius, July 2012.
  • Co-chair (with Carlos Coello Coello) of the Track on "Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimisation", GECCO 2011, Dublin, July 2011.
  • Chair of the Cluster on "Timetabling", ALIO/EURO 2011, Lisbon, May 2011.
  • Co-chair (with Qingfu Zhang, Hui Lu, and Dave Corne) of the Special Session on "Intelligent Multiobjective OptimzatioN" (LION-IMON)", LION 5, Rome, January 2011.
  • Chair of the Stream on "Timetabling and Rostering", EURO 2010, Lisbon, July 2010.
  • Co-chair (with Qingfu Zhang, Hui Lu, and Dave Corne) of the Special Session on "Multiobjective Metaheuristics (LION-MOME)", LION 4, Venice, January 2010.
  • Chair of the Stream on "Timetabling and Rostering", EURO 2009, Bonn, July 2009.
  • Co-chair (with Hana Rudova) of the Stream on "Timetabling and Rostering", EURO 2007, Prague, July 2007.
  • Chair of the Special Invited Session on "Heuristics for Timetabling and Rostering", EURO 2006, Reykjavik, July 2006.
  • Chair of the Special Invited Session on "Heuristic Methods for Timetabling and Rostering", INFORMS 2005, San Francisco, November 2005.
  • Co-chair (with Patrick De Causmaecker) of the 7th WATT workshop on "Multi-objective Timetabling and Rostering", IFORS 2005, Hawaii, July 2005.
  • Co-chair (with Eric Soubeiga) of the 4th EU/ME International Workshop on "Design and Evluation of Advanced Hybrid Metaheuristics", Nottingham, UK, November 4-5, 2004.

    Conferences Organisation

  • 4th EU/ME International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of Advanced Hybrid Meta-heuristics, Nottingham, 2004.
  • 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2003), Nottingham, 2003.
  • International Simposium of Information and Computational Technology SIINCO 97, Chihuahua Mexico.
  • International Congress in Electronic Engineering, ELECTRO 1992, ELECTRO 1993 and ELECTRO 1995, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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