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Conferences, Workshops & Symposia organized

   

The CIS research group has an extensive experience in organizing many successful international scientific events.

Each event represents an important milestone achieved for individual team members and for the entire group, as well as a valuable opportunity for a professional growth, sharing experiences, innovation, future vision, and promoting the development of international networks collaboration.

Below you can have a look on the list of all the conferences, workshops, symposia, and special sessions organized by the team.

   

Upcoming Event

“Learning and Optimization under Uncertainty for Dynamic Autonomous Navigation”, special session at the 20th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (LION 2026), 15-19 June 2026, Milan , Italy.

Organizers:
Carolina Crespi - carolina.crespi @ unict.it;
Alessio Mezzina - alessio.mezzina @ unict.it,
Mario Pavone - mpavone @ dmi.unict.it.



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Upcoming Event

“International Conference in Optimization and Learning” (OLA 2026), Technical University of Crete, 28-30 April 2026, Chania, Crete, Greece.

Organizers:
Yannis I. Marinakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France
Magdalene Marinaki, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Bernabé Dorronsoro, University of Cadiz, Spain
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy


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Upcoming Event

“7 th International Conference on Computational Intelligence” (ICCI 2026), December 2026, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India.

Organizers:
Sankita J Patel, NIT-Surat, Surat, India
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Mukesh Saraswat, JIIT, Noida, India
Ritu Tiwari, NIT-Surat, Surat, India

Co-organized with Soft Computing Research Society.


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International Conferences

   

  1. 3rd Decision Science Alliance International Summer Conference (DSA-ISC 2025) - "Intelligent Systems & Decision Making: Human Insights in the Era of AI", Department of Economics & Business, University of Catania, 19-20 June 2025, Catania, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Raffaele Cerulli, Salvatore Greco, Vincenzo Cutello
    • Program Chairs: Angel A. Juan, Carlos A. Coello Coello, El-Ghazali Talbi, Giovanni Righini, Mario Pavone


  2. International Conference in Optimization and Learning (OLA 2025), Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai Silicon Oasis, 23-25 April 2025, Dubai.

    • General Chair: El-Ghazali Talbi
    • Program Chair: Bernabe Dorronsoro
    • Workshop Chair: Mario Pavone


  3. 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI 2025), Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, 27-28 December 2025, Surat, India.

    • General Chairs: Sankita J Patel, Mario Pavone, Mukesh Saraswat, Ritu Tiwari


  4. 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI 2024), Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, 24-26 December 2024, Surat, India.

    • General Chairs: Mukesh Zaveri, Mario Pavone, Mukesh Saraswat, Ritu Tiwari


  5. International Conference in Optimization and Learning (OLA 2023), University of Málaga (UMA), 3-5 May 2023, Málaga, Spain.

    • General Chairs: Francisco Chicano, El-Ghazali Talbi
    • Program Chair: Grégoire Danoy
    • Workshop Chair: Mario Pavone


  6. 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI 2024), Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, 4-5 November 2023, Surat, India.

    • General Chairs: Anupam Shukla, Mario Pavone, Mukesh Saraswat, Ritu Tiwari


  7. 14th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2022), Department of Architecture, University of Catania, 11-14 July 2022, Ortigia-Syracuse, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Luca Di Gaspero, Paola Festa, Amir Nakib, Mario Pavone


  8. International Conference in Optimization and Learning (OLA 2022), Department of Architecture, University of Catania, 18-20 July 2022, Ortigia-Syracuse, Italy.

    • Steering Committee Chair: El-Ghazali Talbi
    • General Chairs: Mario Pavone, Lionel Amodeo
    • Program Chairs: Bernabe Dorronsoro, Amir Nakib


  9. International Conference in Optimization and Learning (OLA 2021), University of Catania, 21-23 June 2021, Catania, Italy. (virtual mode)

    • Steering Committee Chair: El-Ghazali Talbi
    • General Chairs: Mario Pavone, Lionel Amodeo
    • Program Chairs: Bernabe Dorronsoro, Vincenzo Cutello


  10. International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science (ODS 2018), XLVIII Annual Meeting of AIRO (Italian Operations Research Society), 10-13 September 2018, Taormina, Italy.

    • Local Organizing: Mario Pavone


  11. International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS 2018), 8-10 April 2018, South Padre Island, USA.

    • Publicity Chair: Mario Pavone


  12. 10th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2016), Plymouth Lecture Theatre, University of Plymouth, 8-10 June 2016, Plymouth, UK.

    • General Chairs: Vincenzo Cutello, Alessandro Di Nuovo
    • Program Chairs: Christian Blum, Mario Pavone, El-Ghazali Talbi


  13. International IEEE Congress on Systems Immunology, Immunoinformatics & Immune computation - Immunology without Borders - (ICSI3 2015), Hotel Villa Diodoro Congress Center, 17-18 July 2015, Taormina, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Carlos A. Coello Coello, Vincenzo Cutello, Doheon Lee, Mario Pavone, Luca Zammataro


  14. 18th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry - Applied Mathematics meets Industry and New Technologies - (ECMI 2014), Hotel Villa Diodoro Congress Center, 9-13 June 2014, Taormina, Italy.

    • Local Organizing: Mario Pavone


  15. 12th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2013), Hotel Villa Diodoro Congress Center, 2-6 September 2013, Taormina, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Pietro Liò, Orazio Miglino, >Giuseppe Nicosia, Stefano Nolfi, Mario Pavone


  16. 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2012), Hotel Villa Diodoro Congress Center, 1-5 September 2012, Taormina, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Vincenzo Cutello, Mario Pavone
    • Program Chairs: Carlos A. Coello Coello, Kalyanmoy Deb, Stephanie Forrest, Giuseppe Nicosia


  17. 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2012), San Domenico Palace Hotel, 28-31 August 2012, Taormina, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Carlos A. Coello Coello, Julie Greensmith, Natalio Krasnogor, Pietro Liò, Giuseppe Nicosia, Mario Pavone


  18. 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2011), Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 18-21 July 2011, Cambridge, UK.

    • Publicity Chair: Mario Pavone


  19. 3rd International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2004), University of Catania, 13-16 September 2004, Catania, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Giuseppe Nicosia, Vincenzo Cutello, Peter J. Bentley, Jon Timmis
    • Local Organizer: Mario Pavone

   

International Workshops

   

  1. International Workshop on Big Optimization (WBO 2025), Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Catania, 31 July - 1 August 2025, Catania, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Claudia Cavallaro, Carolina Crespi
    • Publicity Chair: Alessio Mezzina


  2. The Distributed Ghost: Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and Their Applications to Intelligence, Workshop as part of the Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2023), 27 July 2023, Sapporo, Japan.

    • General Chairs: Stefano Nichele, Hiroki Sayama, Chrystopher Nehaniv, Eric Medvet, Mario Pavone


  3. ACM 12th International Workshop on Data & Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO 2018), in conjunction with ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), 22-26 October 2018, Lingotto, Turin, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Sangwoo Kim, Mario Pavone


  4. International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization & big Data (MOD 2015), Hotel Villa Diodoro Congress Center, 21-24 July 2015, Taormina, Italy.

    • Program Chairs: Panos Pardalos, Mario Pavone, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Vincenzo Cutello


  5. 2nd International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2007), 8-10 November 2007, Acireale-Catania, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Natalio Krasnogor, Giuseppe Nicosia, Mario Pavone, David Pelta


  6. Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE 2007), 5-7 September 2007, Baia Samuele, Sampieri-Ragusa, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Giuseppe Nicosia, Mario Giacobini, Mario Pavone, Leonardo Vanneschi

   

International Symposia

   

  1. IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life and Cooperative Intelligent Systems (IEEE ALIFE-CIS 2025), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), 17-20 March 2025, Trondheim, Norway.

    • General Chair: Stefano Nichele
    • Technical Chairs: Hiroki Sayama, Chrystopher Nehaniv
    • Industry Chairs: Mario Pavone, Eric Medvet


  2. IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation (IEEE IComputation 2023), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), 5-8 December 2023, Mexico City, Mexico.

    • General Chairs: Wenjian Luo, Mario Pavone, Uwe Aickelin, Licheng Jiao


  3. IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation (IEEE IComputation 2022), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), 4-7 December 2022, Singapore.

    • General Chairs: Wenjian Luo, Mario Pavone, Uwe Aickelin, Licheng Jiao


  4. IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation (IEEE IComputation 2021), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), 5-7 December 2021, Orlando, Florida, USA.

    • General Chairs: Wenjian Luo, Mario Pavone, Uwe Aickelin, Licheng Jiao


  5. IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation (IEEE IComputation 2020), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), 1-4 December 2020, Canberra, Australia.

    • General Chairs: Wenjian Luo, Mario Pavone, Uwe Aickelin, Licheng Jiao


  6. IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation (IEEE IComputation 2019), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), 6-9 December 2019, Xiamen, China.

    • General Chairs: Wenjian Luo, Mario Pavone, Pierre Parrend, Licheng Jiao


  7. IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation (IEEE IComputation 2018), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), 18-21 November 2018, Bengaluru, India.

    • General Chairs: Wenjian Luo, Mario Pavone, Soumya Banerjee, Licheng Jiao


  8. IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation (IEEE IComputation 2017), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI), 27 November - 1 December 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

    • General Chairs: Carlos A. Coello Coello, Licheng Jiao, Wenjian Luo, Mario Pavone, Ramit Meher

   

Special Sessions

   

  1. The Distributed Ciphers: Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and Their Applications to Intelligence, special session at international conference on Artificial Life (ALife), 6-10 October 2025, Kyoto, Japan.

    • General Chairs: Stefano Nichele, Hiroki Sayama, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Eric Medvet, Mario Pavone


  2. The Distributed Viking: Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and Their Applications to Intelligence, special session at international conference on Artificial Life (ALife), 22-26 July 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark.

    • General Chairs: Stefano Nichele, Hiroki Sayama, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Eric Medvet, Mario Pavone


  3. Advanced methods for anomalies forecasting and detection, special session at international conference on Optimization & Learning (OLA), 13-15 May 2024, Dubrovnik, Croazia.

    • General Chairs: Claudia Cavallaro, Vincenzo Cutello, Mario Pavone, Francesco Zito


  4. Advanced methods for anomalies forecasting and detection, special session at international conference on Optimization & Learning (OLA), 3-5 May 2023, Malaga, Spain.

    • General Chairs: Claudia Cavallaro, Vincenzo Cutello, Francesco Zito


  5. Artificial Immune Systems, special session at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), 18-23 July 2022, Padua, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Wenjian Luo, Zaineb Chelly Dagdia, Mario Pavone, Sławomir T. Wierzchoń


  6. Artificial Immune Systems, special session at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), 28 June - 1 July 2021, Krokow, Poland.

    • General Chairs: Wenjian Luo, Zaineb Chelly Dagdia, Mario Pavone, Sławomir T. Wierzchoń


  7. Artificial Immune Systems, special session at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), 19–24 July 2020, Glasgow, UK.

    • General Chairs: Wenjian Luo, Mario Pavone, Yong Wang


  8. Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory, special session at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), 8-13 July 2018, Riode Janeiro, Brazil.

    • General Chairs: Guilherme P. Coelho, Zaineb Chelly Dagdia, Grazziela Figueredo, Mario Pavone


  9. Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory, special session at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), 5-8 June 2017, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain.

    • General Chairs: Thomas Jansen, Mario Pavone, Jon Timmis


  10. Bio-inspired Fuzzy Logic Approaches - Interdisciplinary Emergent Technologies, special session at the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 9-12 July 2017, Naples, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Rabie A. Ramadan, Valentina E. Balas, Camelia Pintea, Mario Pavone, Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin, Ahmad Taher Azar


  11. Rough sets and Fuzzy Rough Hybridization with bio-inspired optimization techniques, special session at the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 9-12 July 2017, Naples, Italy.

    • General Chairs: Ahmad Taher Azar, Valentina E. Balas, Camelia Pintea, Rabie A. Ramadan, Mario Pavone, Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin


  12. Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, special session at the 28th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO), 3-6 July 2016, Poznan, Poland.

    • co-Chair: Mario Pavone


  13. Bio-inspired Fuzzy Logic Approaches - Interdisciplinary Emergent Technologies, special session at the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 25-29 July 2016, Vancouver, Canada.

    • General Chairs: Rabie A. Ramadan, Valentina E. Balas, Camelia Pintea, Mario Pavone, Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin, Ahmad Taher Azar


  14. Recent Developments in Swarm Intelligence, special session at 5th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (META), 27-31 October 2014, Marrakech, Morocco.

    • General Chairs: Christian Blum, Mario Pavone


  15. Natural Computation in BioInformatics (NCB 2010), special session at the 28th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO), 11-14 July 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.

    • Chair: Mario Pavone

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