Events

Upcoming Events

• IEEE WCCI 2018, 8-13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• GECCO 2018, 14-18 July 2018, Kyoto, Japan
  • Paper submission: 2018-04-14
• StuCoSReC '18, 9. 10. 2018, University of Ljubljana, The Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Slovenia, Ljubljana - Student Computer Science Research Conference
• IEEE SSCI 2018, 18-21 November 2018, Bangalore, India
• PPSN 2018, Coimbra, Portugal
• IWSSIP 2018, 20-22 June 2018, Maribor
  • hosting Special Session on Differential Evolution, chaired by Aleš Zamuda

2018 - Past Events

• Short-term scientific mission (STSM) for action COST cHiPSet (doc. dr. Aleš Zamuda), 5.-23. 2. 2018, EII ULPGC

2017

• IEEE SSCI 2017, 27 November - 1 December, 2017, Honolulu, HI USA
  • Presented 1 paper
• Conference IEEE CEC 2017: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2017 (Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain, 5-8 June 2017)
  • Presented 4 papers including optimization algorithms
  • At competition "on Real-Parameter Single Objective Optimization" the winner entry algorithm was jSO.
  • The jSO algorithm was developed by Janez Brest, Mirjam Sepesy Maučec, and Borko Bošković and this entry won in the competition of 12 algorithms. The jSO algorithm is an improved version of L-SHADE and iL-SHADE algorithms, which are seen as "state-of-the-art" algorithms for single-objective optimization. CONGRATULATIONS!
• Lecture "Differential Evolution and Chemistry", at UCT Prague, 19.5.2017 (Aleš Zamuda)
• MC meting on project COST cHiPSet in Palermo (High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications), 27.3.2017
• Lecture "Differential evolution and applied optimization domains" (Aleš Zamuda), Aberystwyth University, 20 February 2017.
  • As part of 1-month STSM mobility in the framework of ImAPPNIO.

2016

• Danube Rectors` Conference (DRC) Annual Meeting 2016 “Vision / Knowledge / Prosperity. The Universities' Contribution to EUSDR. Good Practices and Challenges”
  • conference organizers: Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy
  • venue: Danube University Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems/Donau, 9-10 November 2016
  • the Danubius Young Scientist Award for Slovenia received by Aleš Zamuda
• Symposium of Differential Evolution (SDE), 6-9 December 2016, Athens, Greece
• ImAppNIO COST Action CA15140 - Workshop and 2nd Management Committee Meeting, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 17-18 October 2016
  • Aleš Zamuda participated in working groups as member of the Management Committee for Action CA15140
• Ghent University Lecture: Workshop on Methods for Self-Organizing Distributed Systems (MeSoDiSy) 2016
  • Aleš Zamuda lectured at MeSoDiSy 2016, Ghent, Belgium, 13-14 October 2016
• UTB ERASMUS TS Mobility Lecture 2016
  • Tomas Bata University in Zlín - Aleš Zamuda Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Lecture, 19-23 September 2016
  • Lecture given: "Differential Evolution and Complexities in Understanding Large-Scale Collective Intelligence: from Underwater robotics, Energetics, Ecosystem simulation, and Tree design, to Socio-Technical hybrids, with Big Data, Remote sensing, Cloud computing, Computer vision, and Computer animation"
• IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI) 2016, 25-29 July 2016, Vancouver, Canada
  • includes IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)
• ULPGC ERASMUS TS Mobility Lecture 2016
  • University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Aleš Zamuda Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Lecture, 4 April - 6 Maj 2016
  • Lecture given: "Engineering Collective Intelligence for Large-scale Systems: from Underwater robotics, Energetics, Ecosystem simulation, and Tree design, to Hybrid societies, with Big Data and Differential Evolution, Remote sensing, Cloud computing, Computer vision, and Computer animation"
• Lecture at University of Iceland, NFM TS Mobility 2016 - Aleš Zamuda, Reykjavik, Iceland, 28 March - 1 April 2016
  • Lecture: "Introduction to Differential Evolution and Large-scale Optimization"

2015

• IBS Workshop on Methods for Self-Organizing Distributed Systems (MeSoDiSy) 2015, 5-7 October 2015, IBS, Laubusch, Germany
• ULPGC ERASMUS TS Mobility Lecture 2015
  • University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Aleš Zamuda Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Lecture, 9 - 20 February 2015
  • Lecture given: "Large Scale Optimization and Differential Evolution Applications"
• Fifteenth International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST 2015).
  • EUROCAST 2015, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 8-13 February 2015
  • Fifteenth International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory
  • includes the Workshop on Marine Sensors and Manipulators
  • presented publication: Underwater Glider Path Planning and Population Reduction in Differential Evolution
• EUROGEN 2015
  • 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
  • Aleš Zamuda member of Technical Advisory Panel

2014

• IEEE SSCI 2014, 9-12 December 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA
• PPSN2014 (13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature)
  • GR - Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenija, 13 - 17 September 2014
• BIOMA 2014 (The International Student Workshop on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications)
  • 13 September 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • part of PPSN 2014, paper submission date 30 May 2014
  • chairs: Jurij Šilc, Aleš Zamuda
  • organizing committee: Gregor Papa, Jurij Šilc, Aleš Zamuda

2013

• UA ERASMUS TS Mobility Lecture 2013
  • University of Alicante - Aleš Zamuda ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility Lecture, 16 - 20 December 2013
  • Lecture given: "Differential Evolution and Document Summarization"
• Conference IEEE CEC 2013, June 20-23 2013, Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel, Cancun, Mexico
  • two presented papers
• ULPGC ERASMUS TS Mobility Lecture 2013
  • University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Aleš Zamuda ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility Lecture, 13.- 17 May 2013
  • Lecture given: "General-purpose Parallel Processing on Graphics Processing Units and Meta-optimization"
• 2013 IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution (SDE 2013)
  • part of 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2013), 16 - 19 April 2013, Singapore
• COST YR Forum and Forest-based Platform Technology Congress 2013, Barcelona, Spain (11-14 March 2013)
  • Young Researchers direct the way to Innovation in the Forest-based sector - COST Young Researchers' Forum at the Forest-based Platform Technology Congress 2013 (8th FTP Conference)
  • Aleš Zamuda received COST grant to present at YR Forum

2012

• International invention fair SIIF 2012, 13. december 2012
  • SIIF (Seoul International Invention Fair), largest invention fair in Asia market
  • Aleš Zamuda received gold medal for invention
• IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012)
  • June 10.-15. 2012, Brisbane, Australia
  • Paper submission deadline: December 19 2011
• BIOMA 2012
  • The 5th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications, 24-25 May 2012, Bohinj, Slovenia
  • Paper submission: 18 January 2012
• PhD Thesis Defence (Aleš Zamuda)
• ULPGC ERASMUS TS Mobility Lecture 2012
  • Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Aleš Zamuda ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility Lecture, 7. - 11. 5. 2012
  • Lecture given: "Heterogeneous Computer Systems in the View of Ubiquitous Computing and Connectible Intelligent Services"
• SIDE 2012
  • Symposium on Swarm Intelligence and Differential Evolution (SIDE 2012), see conference website
  • April 29 - May 3, 2012, organized in as part of the ICAISC 2012
  • Janez Brest served as a symposium chair, Aleš Zamuda, Borko Bošković, and Iztok Fister served in the program commitee
  • 2 papers accepted

2011

• Conference ERK 2011
• High citation of a paper in TEC journal
• SDE @ IEEE SSCI 2011 (CFP)
  • 2011 IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution (SDE 2011)
  • April 11 - 15 2011, Halle aux Farines, Paris, France
  • Chairs: Janez Brest, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Swagatam Das, Jadavpur University, India. Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Aleš Zamuda and Borko Bošković are Program Committee members

2010

• Conference ERK 2010
  • International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference.
  • 20. - 22. september, grand hotel Metropol, Portorose, Slovenija
  • Aleš Zamuda was president of section Artificial inteligence
  • Iztok Fister ml. won the IEEE Student Competition
  • 5 accepted papers
• WCCI 2010
  • IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2010)
  • July 18 - 23 2010, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2 accepted papers
• BIOMA 2010, 20 - 21 may 2010
  • The 4th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications BIOMA 2010
• PhD Thesis Defence (Borko Bošković), April 13 2010
• On 25th. january in 2010 we presented our laboratory on an in-house fair.

2009

• On 25th november in 2009 we got a plaque at competition Eureka! mladi 2009 for our chess program BBChess
• On 18th september 2009 we did execute a course on open source software for Prva Gimnazija Maribor pictures
• Conference ERK 2009
  • International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference.
  • 21. - 23. september, grand hotel Metropol, Portorose, Slovenija
• Linux/UNIX začetni tečaj (4.,5., 10.-12. junij 2009)
• Conference IEEE CEC 2009
  • international scientific conference Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway, 18th - 21th May 2009.
  • Competition ECiDUE'09.
  • Competition CEC 2009 MOO (Test framework).
  • Janez Brest, Borko Bošković, and Aleš Zamuda are International Program Committee members.
• Bachelor thesis defence (Štefan Brest), 28 january 2009

2008

• BBChess v 1.3.a chess engine has beaten all other engines in group B of 4th division of WBEC Ridderkerk. Congratulations to Borko for qualifing for championships! More about event. 8. december 2008
• Paper in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation has been highly cited, 04. november 2008.
• BIOMA 2008
• ERK 2008
  • Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications
• Bachelor thesis defence (David Bombek), 19. august 2008
• Masters thesis defence (Aleš Zamuda), 11. july 2008
• Conference WCCI2008
  • 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), composed of the:
    • International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN),
    • IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) and
    • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)
  • Janez Brest, Aleš Zamuda in Borko Bošković are International Technical Committee members.
• Presentation of BBchess program for visiting high-school students (15th February 2008).

2007

• Institutes and laboratories fair 2007
• Scattered Context Grammars research
  • Jiří Techet researching Scattered Context Grammars
  • Danube Rectors Conference Scholarship for Post-graduate Students
• Conference IEEE CEC2007
  • international scientific conference Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Singapore, 25th - 28th September 2007.
  • Borko Bošković, Janez Brest, and Aleš Zamuda are International Program Committee members.
  • Results of competition CEC2007-MO.
• Researches in Europe 2007
  • Opportunity to introduce the work of researchers and their acchievements to broader audience in an amusing and ralaxing manner.
• Conference ERK'2007 with AVN workshop
  • Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference.
• Conference EUROCON 2007
  • International conference on computer as a tool (Poland, between 9th and 12th Sept. 2007)
  • the work of Aleš Zamuda et. al. has won the 2nd place of the Student Paper Competition of the IEEE Region 8, which was held at the conference.
• AVN IJS'2007
  • Workshop on algorithms inspired by nature.
  • Scientific collaboration among LabRAJ and LPM from FERI UM and the Department of Intelligent Systems, IJS.
• Dan inovacij in tehnologije 2007
  • Faculty of electrical engineering and computer science presenting it's research work.
• CeBIT 2007
  • Centrum der Büro- und Informationstechnik
  • the world's greatest computer expo held each spring in Hanover, Germany

2006

• Day of faculty '06
  • ceremony with cultural programme and granting of awards.
• VIPSI-2006 Slovenia
  • VIP Symposia on Internet related research with elements of M+I+T++.
• Institutes and laboratories fair
  • Institutes and laboratories fair (29.11.2006).
• Sport events (University of Maribor)
  • Second place of FERI team.
• Hevreka!06
  • Key national event on innovation.
• Conference BIOMA '06
  • International conference on bioinspired optimization and their application.
• Conference ERK '06
  • International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference.
  • Best student paper award won by Aleš Zamuda.
• Researches in Europe 2006
  • Opportunity to introduce the work of researchers and their acchievements to broader audience in an amusing and ralaxing manner.
• Conference CEC '06
  • International conference on evolutionary computation.
  • Canada.