Aleš Zamuda

Level of education: PhD Habilitation: Teaching assistant Membership in organizations: IEEE (CIS) Room: F-203 (lab), F-204 (cabinet) Phone: (+386 2) 220 7404 E-mail: ales.zamuda@{um,uni-mb}.si (pubkey) Personal website: http://www.aleszamuda.si/

Ales Zamuda received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from University of Maribor, Slovenia, in 2006, 2008, and 2012, respectively. As an affiliate of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Maribor he acts within research group Computer Architecture and Languages Laboratory and programme-funded unit Computer Systems, Methodologies, and Intelligent Services. His areas of interest include evolutionary algorithms, multicriterion optimization, artificial life, and computer animation. He has written over 30 scientific papers and among them several journal papers ranked in first quarter of computer science category such as Applied Soft Computing and Information Sciences and received several citations of his scientific works. He started programming in elementary school and since then won several national and international awards, such as international IEEE R8 SPC 2007 award for diploma work and from his dissertation, 2012 gold medal at international invention fair in Seoul. His biography is selected in Marquis Who is Who in the World and he is an IEEE and IEEE CIS member. He is also a regular reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and other prominent scientific journals. He has been a member of the program/technical committees of more than ten international conferences over the last few years including CEC since 2007 in Singapore.

(Curriculum vitae) Doctoral dissertation MSc thesis BSc thesis Bibliography

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Research Highlights

Research topics:

• Multiobjective optimization and evolutionary algorithms
• Artificial life and computer animation (programme EcoMod)
• Tree modeling: 3D morphologic reconstruction, evolutionary computer vision
• Oceanography and robotics: navigation for robotic underwater glider

A. Zamuda. Differential Evolution for Parameterized Procedural Woody Plant Models Reconstruction: PhD thesis. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012.

• gold medal at International invention fair SIIF 2012
• most important scientific result of year 2011 in national research programme P2-0041 Computer Systems, Methodologies, and Intelligent Services
• University of Maribor award for research work (Andrej Perlach's award) - at Rector's Day of University of Maribor '08 (ratification),
• faculty awards for research work - at Day of faculty 2006 (ratification), Day of faculty 2007 (ratification) and Day of FERI 2008 (4.12.2008),
• vice champion (2nd place) of the Student Paper Competition of the IEEE Region 8, which was held at the conference EUROCON 2007 in Poland, between 9th and 12th Sept. 2007 (certificate),
• ranking at IEEE CEC world competitions on performance assessment of evolutionary algorithms (Top 5, several times 2007-2010),
• victory at competition of student papers ERK '06 (certificate) and then invitation (2 March 2007) to compete with the 5 best papers on the Student Paper Competition of the IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Africa, Middle East), which was held in Poland, between 9th and 12th Sept. 2007 (IEEE site news),
• memorial gift of MVZT minister for visible results on international competitions, at reception for students, university and faculty leaders and public research institutions,
• first award and golden plaque at competition for most inventive and business oriented project Eureka! mladi 2008, Ljubljana, 22. 10. 2008.

Major publications of scientific research

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. D. Hernández Sosa. Differential Evolution and Underwater Glider Path Planning Applied to the Short-Term Opportunistic Sampling of Dynamic Mesoscale Ocean Structures. Applied Soft Computing, November 2014, vol. 24, pp. 95–108. DOI 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.06.048. BibTeX

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest. Vectorized Procedural Models for Animated Trees Reconstruction using Differential Evolution. Information Sciences, 2014, vol. 278, pp. 1-21. DOI 10.1016/j.ins.2014.04.037. BibTeX

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest. Environmental Framework to Visualize Emergent Artificial Forest Ecosystems. Information Sciences, 2013, vol. 220, pp. 522-540. DOI 10.1016/j.ins.2012.07.031. BibTeX

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. Differential Evolution for Parameterized Procedural Woody Plant Models Reconstruction. Applied Soft Computing, 2011, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 4904-4912. DOI 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.06.009. BibTeX

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest. Tree Model Reconstruction Innovization Using Multi-objective Differential Evolution. 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 2012, pp. 575-582. BibTeX

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. Differential Evolution with Self-adaptation and Local Search for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2009, 2009, pp. 195-202. BibTeX

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. Large Scale Global Optimization Using Differential Evolution with Self-adaptation and Cooperative Co-evolution. 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2008, pp. 3719-3726. BibTeX

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. Differential Evolution for Multiobjective Optimization with Self Adaptation. The 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC2007, 2007, pp. 3617-3624. BibTeX

(pdf) J. Brest, A. Zamuda, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. An Analysis of the Control Parameters’ Adaptation in DE. Advances in Differential Evolution, Studies in Computational Intelligence, (ISBN: 978-3-540-68827-3), Chakraborty, Uday K. (Ed.), 2008, vol. 143, pp. 89-110. BibTeX

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. Študija samoprilagajanja krmilnih parametrov pri algoritmu DEMOwSA. Elektrotehniški vestnik, 2008, vol. 75, no. 4, pp. 223-228. BibTeX

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, N. Guid, V. Žumer. Modelling, Simulation, and Visualization of Forest Ecosystems. The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2007: International conference on 'Computer as a tool', September 9-12, 2007, Warsaw, Poland, 2007, pp. 2600-2606. BibTeX

Bibliography

• bibliography accessible with the system COBISS
• selected papers accessible from common archive of LabRAJ bibliography; send me any request for paper to email
• citations in Engineering Village and Google Scholar
• researcher profile at SICRIS and evaluation of bibliographic indicators of research efficiency with ARRS method
• biography at Marquis Who's Who in the World

Service to the profession

• member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• member of Slovenian group on nature inspired algorithms and Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society

• reviewer for scientific journals with great SCI factor:
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; IF=3.736 (2008), 4.589 (2009), 4.371 (2010)),
  • IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part B. Cybernetics (2009-2010, 2012, 2013; IF=2.361 (2008), 3.007 (2009)),
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (2012)
  • Information Sciences -- Elsevier (2011, IF=3.291, 2012, 2013)
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence -- Elsevier (2010, IF=1.444)
  • European Journal of Operational Research (2013, IF=1.815)
  • International Journal of Systems Science (Taylor & Francis) (2010, IF=0.918)
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • Soft Computing -- Springer (2013)
  • Computational Optimization and Applications -- Springer (2013)
  • Journal of industrial and management optimization (2008, IF=1.181 (2008), 1.12 (2009)),
  • IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (2009, IF=5.468 (2008), 4.678 (2009))
• reviewer for scientific journals not yet under SCI:
  • Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (2010, 2011, 2012), Memetic Computing (2012), Informatica (2010)
• reviewer for international scientific Congresses on Evolutionary Computation, member of program committees
  • 11th International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems (EUROGEN-2015), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK), 14-16 September, 2015, Technical Advisory Panel member
  • IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (IEEE SPICES) 2015, Kozhikode, India
  • IEEE SSCI 2014, Orlando, Florida, ZDA
  • BIOMA 2014 (The International Student Workshop on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications), Ljubljana, Slovenia (part of PPSN 2014), member of organizing committee, chair
  • FUTURE COMPUTING 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications, May 25 - 29, 2014, Venice, Italy
  • PPSN 2014, 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, September 13-17, 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) 2014, 24.-27. september, Delhi, India - PC member
  • IACIET-2014, International Academic Conference on Innovation Engineering & Technology” (IACIET-2014), 26-27 September, 2014, Jaipur, India
  • 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing ICAISC 2014, Zakopane, Poland
  • 2nd ScienceOne International Conference on Information Technology ---- ICIT 2014, Dubai, U.A.E
  • 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2013) Symposium on Differential Evolution (SDE)
  • 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2012) Symposium on Swarm Intelligence and Differential Evolution (SIDE), Zakopane,
  • IEEE SSCI 2011 Symposium on Differential Evolution (SDE), Paris,
  • CEC 2011 (New Orleans, ZDA),
  • WCCI 2010 (Barcelona),
  • IEEE CEC 2009 (Trondheim),
  • IEEE WCCI 2008 (Hong Kong), and
  • IEEE CEC2007 (Singapore)
• other expertises
  • reviewer for other international scientific conferences: International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO), Chennai, Indija (SEMCCO 2010, 16.-18. December 2010, SEMCCO 2011), International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM) (ICEM 2010, Rome, Italy, 6.-8. September 2010, ICEM 2012, 2-5. September 2012, Marseille, France), IEEE ERK 2010
  • reviewer for journal Informatica
  • section chair at Artificial Intelligence, IEEE ERK 2010

Expert knowledge

• programming languages C, C++, C# (ASP.NET), Java (Eclipse, JBuilder), Delphi, PHP, Ruby, C for CUDA
• web technologies HTML, CSS, XHTML, RSS, Web 2.0
• utilities Qt4, Win32 API, MySQL,
• office utilities OpenOffice.Org (Writer, Calc, Presentation), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), LaTeX, programming PDF
• Linux, BSD, KDE, GNOME
• CMS: MediaWiki, Joomla, Moodle
• OpenGL, AI in games, evolutionary optimization algorithms
• Unix (Linux and Mac OS X) administration

Past projects/hacks

Computer games programming: board games (QuTeChess - 2004, Reversi GUI & engine - 2003, four in a row - 1994 (in elementary school)), card games (šnops - 1996), arcade games (BlowUp, Wheel of Fortune) Genetic algorithm for tunning of evaluation functions in board games (matefind -- pdf, code - 2003) Distributed system for caching, filtering and presentation of RSS feeds (2005) Other topics of interest: computer security, linux, Mac OS X

International travels

• Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, invited lecture at ULPGC, 2013
• COST YR Forum and Forest-based Platform Technology Congress 2013, Barcelona, Spain
• Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, invited lecture at ULPGC, 2012
• Zakopane, Poland, conference ICAISC, 2012
• Trondheim, Norway, congress IEEE CEC, 2009
• Singapore, congress IEEE CEC, 2007
• Warsaw, Poland, conference EUROCON, 2007

Events and other activities AVN IJS'2007 BIOMA 2010 CeBIT 2007 COST YR Forum and Forest-based Platform Technology Congress 2013 Conferences IEEE: Conference EUROCON 2007, CEC 2007, CEC 2008, CEC 2009, CEC 2010, WCCI 2012, CEC 2013 Day of faculty '06 EcoMod International invention fair SIIF 2012 Masters thesis defence (Aleš Zamuda) PhD Thesis Defence (Aleš Zamuda) Presentation: EcoMod screencast Multiobjective optimization and evolutionary algorithms SIDE 2012 ULPGC ERASMUS TS Mobility Lecture 2012 and 2013 VIPSI-2006 Slovenia

Selected recommended scientific literature Introduction to Linux The Complete FreeBSD Thinking In C++ Volume 1 Thinking In C++ Volume 2 Computer Programming as an Art Paul Graham on Great Hackers (text, 2004) Debugging 101 How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp Version Control with Subversion The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2ε The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters Realistic modeling and rendering of plant ecosystems A Review of Multiobjective Test Problems and a Scalable Test Problem Toolkit Differential Evolution: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art