Marco Dorigo
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Marco Dorigo is a research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research (FNRS), and a co-director of IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence lab of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is the ambassador and the pioneer of the "Ant Colony Optimization" metaheuristic (see his book published by MIT Press in 2004), and one of the founders of the swarm intelligence research field. For these contributions, in 2003 he was awarded the "Marie Curie Research Excellence Award" by the European Commission and on November 22, 2005, he was presented the "FNRS - Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences" by the King of Belgium, Albert II.
[edit] Publications (selected)
- Ant Colony Optimization with Thomas Stützle, MIT Press, 2004. (ISBN 0-262-04219-3)
- Swarm Intelligence : From Natural to Artificial Systems with Eric Bonabeau and Guy Theraulaz, Oxford University Press, 1999. (ISBN 0-19-513159-2)
- Robot Shaping with Marco Colombetti, MIT Press, 1998. (ISBN 0-262-04164-2)
- Ant Algorithms for discrete optimization with Gianni Di Caro and Luca Maria Gambardella, Artificial Life, Vol. 5, N. 2, 1999.
[edit] References
- "First EU Marie Curie Awards in recognition of world-class achievements in Europe", Marie Curie Research Excellence Awards
- "Belgian FNRS -- Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences, 2005"
