Marco Dorigo
Encyclopedia
Marco Dorigo is a research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research (FNRS), a professor in the computer science department of the University of Paderborn
and a co-director of IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence lab of the Université Libre de Bruxelles
.
He is the proponent 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. Recently he got involved with research in "swarm robotics
": he is the coordinator of "Swarm-bots: Swarms of self-assembling artefacts" and of "Swarmanoid: Towards humanoid robotic swarms" two swarm robotics projects funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies Program of the European Commission
.
For these contributions, in 2003 he was awarded the "Marie Curie
Research Excellence Award" by the European Commission; on 22 November 2005, he was presented the "FNRS - Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences" by the King of Belgium, Albert II
; and in 2007 he received the "Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing", awarded by the "Foundation for the Advancement of Soft Computing". He his the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant (2010).
University of Paderborn
The University of Paderborn in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany was founded in 1972. 15,228 students were enrolled at the university as of December 2010....
and a co-director of IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence lab of the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Université Libre de Bruxelles
The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...
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He is the proponent of the "ant colony optimization
Ant colony optimization
In computer science and operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm ' is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs....
" metaheuristic
Metaheuristic
In computer science, metaheuristic designates a computational method that optimizes a problem by iteratively trying to improve a candidate solution with regard to a given measure of quality. Metaheuristics make few or no assumptions about the problem being optimized and can search very large spaces...
(see his book published by MIT Press
MIT Press
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in 2004), and one of the founders of the swarm intelligence
Swarm intelligence
Swarm intelligence is the collective behaviour of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence...
research field. Recently he got involved with research in "swarm robotics
Swarm robotics
Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multirobot systems which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. It is supposed that a desired collective behavior emerges from the interactions between the robots and interactions of robots with the environment...
": he is the coordinator of "Swarm-bots: Swarms of self-assembling artefacts" and of "Swarmanoid: Towards humanoid robotic swarms" two swarm robotics projects funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies Program of the European Commission
European Commission
The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
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For these contributions, in 2003 he was awarded the "Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...
Research Excellence Award" by the European Commission; on 22 November 2005, he was presented the "FNRS - Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences" by the King of Belgium, Albert II
Albert II of Belgium
Albert II is the current reigning King of the Belgians, a constitutional monarch. He is a member of the royal house "of Belgium"; formerly this house was named Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...
; and in 2007 he received the "Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing", awarded by the "Foundation for the Advancement of Soft Computing". He his the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant (2010).
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 GambardellaLuca Maria GambardellaLuca Maria Gambardella has been co-director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA since 1995. Together with former IDSIA senior researcher Marco Dorigo and others he made substantial contributions to the rapidly growing research field of ant colony optimization, a set of multi-agent methods inspired by the...
, Artificial Life, Vol. 5, N. 2, 1999.