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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2016 - Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For seminal contributions to the foundations of swarm intelligence, including ant colony optimization and swarm robotics
  • 2015 - IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
  • 2010 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence.

Overview

Marco Dorigo is a researcher affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research focuses primarily on fields intersecting computer science and engineering, with notable contributions in the subfields of computer networks and communications, mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence, information systems, and sociology and political science.

Their work covers several main topics including modular robots and swarm intelligence, distributed control of multi-agent systems, blockchain technology applications and security, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, metaheuristic optimization algorithms research, advanced multi-objective optimization algorithms, and challenges related to optimization and search problems.

Marco Dorigo has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • Science Robotics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Among the recent papers published by Dorigo are:

  • Swarm Robotics: Past, Present, and Future [Point of View], 2021, Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Reflections on the future of swarm robotics, 2020, Science Robotics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Marco Dorigo include Mary Katherine Heinrich, Volker Strobel, Andreagiovanni Reina, Alexandre Pacheco, and Thomas Stützle.

In the domain of book publications, Marco Dorigo has contributed to titles published by Springer Science+Business Media, including editions of "Swarm Intelligence" from 2020 and 2022.

Marco Dorigo has received multiple awards and recognitions over the course of their career, including:

  • Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2016)
  • Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2015), recognized for contributions to the foundations of swarm intelligence, including ant colony optimization and swarm robotics
  • IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award (2015)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (2010)
  • IEEE Fellow (2006), acknowledged for contributions to ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence

Best Publications

  • Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents

    M. Dorigo;V. Maniezzo;A. Colorni

  • Ant colony optimization: artificial ants as a computational intelligence technique

    Marco Dorigo;Mauro Birattari;Thomas Stützle

  • Ant Colony Optimization

    M. Dorigo;M. Birattari;T. Stutzle

  • Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem

    M. Dorigo;L.M. Gambardella

  • Ant Colony Optimization.

    Marco Dorigo;Mauro Birattari

  • Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems

    Eric Bonabeau;Marco Dorigo;Guy Theraulaz

  • Optimization, Learning and Natural Algorithms

    M. Dorigo

  • Distributed Optimization by Ant Colonies

    Alberto Colorni;Marco Dorigo;Vittorio Maniezzo;Francisco Varela

  • Ant colony optimization: a new meta-heuristic

    M. Dorigo;G. Di Caro

  • Ant algorithms for discrete optimization

    Marco Dorigo;Gianni Di Caro;Luca M. Gambardella

  • Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem

    Marco Dorigo;Luca Maria Gambardella

  • Ant colony optimization theory: a survey

    Marco Dorigo;Christian Blum

  • AntNet: distributed stigmergetic control for communications networks

    Gianni Di Caro;Marco Dorigo

  • The ant colony optimization meta-heuristic

    Marco Dorigo;Gianni Di Caro

  • Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective

    Manuele Brambilla;Eliseo Ferrante;Mauro Birattari;Marco Dorigo

  • Ant colony optimization for continuous domains

    Krzysztof Socha;Marco Dorigo

  • The Ant Colony Optimization Metaheuristic: Algorithms, Applications, and Advances

    Marco Dorigo;Thomas Stützle

  • Ant algorithms and stigmergy

    Marco Dorigo;Eric Bonabeau;Guy Theraulaz

  • Inspiration for optimization from social insect behaviour

    Eric Bonabeau;Eric Bonabeau;Marco Dorigo;Guy Theraulaz

  • New Ideas In Optimization

    David Corne;Marco Dorigo;Fred Glover;Dipankar Dasgupta

Frequent Co-Authors

Mauro Birattari
Mauro Birattari Université Libre de Bruxelles
Thomas Stützle
Thomas Stützle Université Libre de Bruxelles
Luca Maria Gambardella
Luca Maria Gambardella Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
Vito Trianni
Vito Trianni National Research Council (CNR)
Francesco Mondada
Francesco Mondada École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gianni A. Di Caro
Gianni A. Di Caro Carnegie Mellon University
Stefano Nolfi
Stefano Nolfi National Research Council (CNR)
Vittorio Maniezzo
Vittorio Maniezzo University of Bologna
Christian Blum
Christian Blum Spanish National Research Council
Andries P. Engelbrecht
Andries P. Engelbrecht Stellenbosch University

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