Luca Gambardella

Prof. Dr. Luca Maria Gambardella

Vice Rector for Innovation and Corporate Relations, USI, Università della Svizzera italiana
Full Professor, Facoltà di scienze informatiche, USI, Università della Svizzera italiana
Artificial Intelligence Master director, USI, Università della Svizzera italiana
IDSIA, Istituto Dalle Molle di studi sull'intelligenza artificiale USI-SUPSI
Digital Artist and Novelist
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Artificialy sa, Lugano
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Biography:
since 2020	Vice Rector for Innovation and Corporate Relations, Innovation and Corporate Relations at USI Transfer, USI, Università della Svizzera italiana
since 2020	Co-founder and CTO at Artificialy sa in Lugano
since 2020	Full Professor, Facoltà di scienze informatiche, USI, Università della Svizzera italiana
since 2016	Member of the BRIDGE Discovery Evaluation Panel
since 2016	Director of the Artificial Intelligence Master, Facoltà di scienze informatiche, USI, Università della Svizzera italiana
2015	President of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award EEPA 2015
since 2015	Phd in Engineering Sciences and Technology, ULB, École Polytechnique de Bruxelles, BE
2012-2013	Jury member of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award EEPA 2012-2013
since 2012	Responsible of the SUPSI Master MSE Research Unit in Intelligent Systems, Manno
2012 2020	Director of IDSIA, Manno
since 2011	President of the Swiss Operations Research Society (SVOR/ASRO)
2007-2011	Director of the Intelligent System Master, USI, University of Lugano
2006-2020	Adjunct Professor, Informatics Faculty, USI, University of Lugano
since 2006	Lecture of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Informatics, USI, University of Lugano
since 2006	Technology consultant for TicinoTransfer and Fondazione Agire, Lugano. Interface between academic institutions and industrial partners to introduce and promote innovation
2003-2020	Professor SUPSI, University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland, Manno
since 2001	Chief Scientific Officer of AntOptima sa, a spin-off of IDSIA, Lugano
since 1998	Lecture of Advanced Algorithms, SUPSI Dep. of Technology and Innovation, Manno
1995-2012	co-Director of IDSIA, Lugano-Manno
1992	Visiting Senior Scientist at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
1988-1995	Research Director at IDSIA, Lugano
1986-1988	CEO of Archimede sas. Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Lisp, Italy
1985	Master in Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy

Current Research Topics:

Artificial Intelligence with focus on meta-heuristics algorithms, machine learning and swarm intelligence.

Operational Research and IT with focus on scheduling, vehicle routing and robust optimization.

Autonomous Devices/Robotics with focus on Robotics Swarms, mobile robots and drones.

Management Experiences:

He has been awarded more than 16.0 millions CHF in research funding for his research lab, (including other labs and partners the total amounts to more than 61 millions CHF).

He has been awarded 26 Swiss National Science Foundation projects (20 as principal investigator), 7 European Projects, 15 CTI Projects (13 as principal investigator), 1 Hasler Foundation Project, 8 Industrial projects (6 as principal investigator).

Supervisor of 14 PhD theses (four in progress).

Responsible SUPSI Master MSE Research Unit in Intelligent System.

Responsible USI Master in Artificial Intelligence.

Citations:

He has proposed and published several state of the art bio-inspired optimization algorithms for the travelling salesman problem, the vehicle routing problem with time windows, the quadratic assignment problem, the sequential ordering problems, and the flexible job shop problem.

He has published 300 papers .

The total number of citations to his papers is more than 50’000 (source: Google scholar). His h-number is 77.

His paper on Ant Colony Optimization (IEEE 1997) received more than 10'000 citations and it is the second most cited paper ever published by the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

His paper on Ant Colony Optimization (Artificial Life 1999) received more than 3,200 citations and it is the most cited paper ever published by the Artificial Life journal.

Patents:

European Patent Office. Designation as inventor. Patent n.: 13181909.6 – 1806. Date: 13.11.2013. Title: Method for recharging an accumulator of an electric vehicle.

Swiss Patent. Sistema di guida di un drone. Patent PAR006BCH, 0082/15.

Pending International Patent Application on Boiler application.

Pending European Patent Application on "Surface Interpreter”.

Recent Awards:

in 2021 he was ranked by Stanford University in the top 2% of scientists in the world in all disciplines.

Special Swiss ICT Award 2016: "Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale" it represents one of the best research institutes at the international level in the field of bio-inspired artificial intelligence. (with Juergen Schmidhuber).

"Watt d'Or", Swiss award for best energy projects 2015, category "Energy technologies", Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana & Alpiq InTec Gruppe with project GridSense.

Artistic Production:

My NFT Production

lucagambardella.ch, my digital artistic production

"Neuralrope#1, Inside an Artifical Brain", 2019, Lugano-Besso pedestrian tunnel. A permanent interactive urban installation of 100 meters reproducing an artificial neural networks.

"Sei Vite", Novel, Zerounoundici Edizioni, 2013.

"Il suono dell'alba", Novel, La Feluca Edizioni, 2019.

International Publications

UJ Mele, LM Gambardella, R Montemanni, A New Constructive Heuristic Driven by Machine Learning for the Traveling Salesman Problem Algorithms 14 (9), 267, 2021
X Chou, D Loske, M Klumpp, LM Gambardella, R Montemanni, In-Store Picking Strategies for Online Orders in Grocery Retail Logistics Optimization and Decision Science, 181-189, 2021
M Nava, LM Gambardella, A Giusti, State-Consistency Loss for Learning Spatial Perception Tasks From Partial Labels, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 6 (2), 1112-1119, 2021
J Guzzi, RO Chavez-Garcia, M Nava, LM Gambardella, A Giusti, Path Planning With Local Motion Estimations, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5 (2), 2586-2593, 2020
X Chou, LM Gambardella, R Montemanni, Monte Carlo sampling for the tourist trip design problem, Millenium, 83-90, 2019
Jeffrey Delmerico, Stefano Mintchev, Alessandro Giusti, Boris Gromov, Kamilo Melo, Tomislav Horvat, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter, Auke Ijspeert, Dario Floreano, Luca M. Gambardella, Roland Siegwart, Davide Scaramuzza, “The Current State and Future Outlook of Rescue Robotics”, Journal of Field Robotics, 2019
M Nava, J Guzzi, R. Chavez-Garcia, L M Gambardella and A Giusti: “Learning Long-range Perception using Self-Supervision from Short-Range Sensors and Odometry”. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4 (2), 1279-1286, 2019
J. Banfi, J. Guzzi, , F. Amigoni, E. Feo-Flushing, A. Giusti, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. An integer linear programming model for fair multitarget tracking in cooperative multirobot systems. Autonomous Robots, Issue 43 (3), 665-680, 2019
R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, J. Guzzi, L. M. Gambardella, A. Giusti: “Learning Ground Traversability from Simulations”. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters vol 1 n.23, pp. 1279-1286, 2019
R Montemanni, LM Gambardella, A Study on Pupils Transportation, Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering Vol 6 (1), 2018
Xiaochen Chou, Luca Maria Gambardella, Roberto Montemanni, “Monte Carlo Sampling for the Probabilistic Orienteering Problem”, New Trends in Emerging Complex Real Life Problems, pp. 169-177, 2018
M Andries, RO Chavez-Garcia, R Chatila, A Giusti, LM Gambardella, “Affordance equivalences in robotics: a formalism” Frontiers in neurorobotics 12, 26, 2018
BS Ahmed, LM Gambardella, W Afzal, KZ Zamli, “Handling constraints in combinatorial interaction testing in the presence of multi objective particle swarm and multithreading” Information and software Technology 86, 20-36, 2017
L Nespoli, A Giusti, N Vermes, M Derboni, AE Rizzoli, LM Gambardella, “Distributed demand side management using electric boilers”, Computer Science-Research and Development 32 (1-2), 35-47, 2017
Giusti, J. Guzzi, D. Ciresan, F. Lin, J. P. Rodriguez, F. Fontana, M. Faessler, C. Forster, J. Schmidhuber, G. A. Di Caro, D. Scaramuzza, L. Gambardella, A machine learning approach to the visual perception of forest trails for mobile robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 1, n. 2, pp. 661-667, 2016
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Mouayad A. Sahib, Luca M. Gambardella, Wasif Afzal, and Kamal Z. Zamli "Optimum Design of PIλDμ Controller for an Automatic Voltage Regulator System Using Combinatorial Test Design", PLoS One 11(11), 2016
M. Veta, P. J. van Diest, S. M. Willems, H. Wang, A. Madabhushi, A. Cruz-Roa, F. Gonzalez, A. B. L. Larsen, J. S. Vestergaard, A. B. Dahl, D. C. Cireșan, J. Schmidhuber, A. Giusti, L. M. Gambardella, F. B. Tek, T. Walter, C. W. Wang, S. Kondo, B. J. Matuszewski, F. Precioso, V. Snell, J. Kittler, T. de Campos, A. M. Khan, N. M. Rajpoot, E. Arkoumani, M. M. Lacle, M. A. Viergever, J. P.W. Pluim, Assessment of algorithms for mitosis detection in breast cancer histopathology images, Medical Image Analysis, 20(1):237-48, 2015
F. Mastromatteo, R. Montemanni, L.M. Gambardella and A.E. Rizzoli, An exact algorithm for the k-robust shortest paths problem with interval data, Journal of Applied Operations Research, 11(1), 5-17,2016
V. Papapanagiotou, R. Montemanni and L.M. Gambardella, Objective function evaluation methods for the Orienteering problem with stochastic travel and service times, Journal of Applied Operational Research 6(1):16–29, 2014
Giusti, M. Salani, G. A. Di Caro, A. E. Rizzoli, L. Gambardella, Restricted neighborhood communication improves decentralized demand-side load management, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, n. 1, pp. 92-101, 2014
F. Ducatelle,G. A. Di Caro, A. Förster, M. Bonani, M. Dorigo, S. Magnenat, F. Mondada, R. O’Grady, C. Pinciroli, P. Rétornaz, V. Trianni, L. M. Gambardella, Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms, Swarm Intelligence, vol. 8, n. 1, pp. 1-33, 2014
Dorigo M., D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, S. Nolfi, T. Baaboura, M. Birattari, M. Bonani, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, D. Burnier, A. Campo, A. L. Christensen, A. Decugnière, G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, E. Ferrante, A. Förster, J. Guzzi, V. Longchamp, S. Magnenat, J. Martinez Gonzales, N. Mathews, M. Montes de Oca, R. O’Grady, C. Pinciroli, G. Pini, P. Rétornaz, J. Roberts, V. Sperati, T. Stirling, A. Stranieri, T. Stützle, V. Trianni, E. Tuci, A. E. Turgut, and F. Vaussard. Swarmanoid: A Novel Concept for the Study of Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 20(4): 60–71, 2013.
M. Kudelski, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, RoboNetSim: An integrated framework for multi-robot and network simulation, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 61, n.5, pp. 483-496, 2013
Weyland, R. Montemanni and L.M. Gambardella, Heuristics for the probabilistic traveling salesman problem with deadlines based on quasi-parallel Monte Carlo sampling, Computers & Operations Research, Volume 40, Issue 7, July 2013, Pages 1661–1670
G. Corani, M.C. Magli, A. Giusti, L. Gianaroli, L. Gambardella, “A Bayesian Network model for predicting pregnancy after in vitro fertilization”, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2013, 43(11), 1783–-1792. (doi).
L. Gianaroli, M.C. Magli, L. Gambardella, A. Giusti, C. Grugnetti and G. Corani, “Objective way to support embryo transfer: a probabilistic decision”, Human Reproduction, (2013) 28 (5): 1210-1220.
D. Weyland, M. Salani, R. Montemanni and L.M. Gambardella Vehicle routing for exhausted oil collection Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering 1(1):5-8, 2013
D. Weyland, R. Montemanni and L.M. Gambardella A Metaheuristic Framework for Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization Problems based on GPGPU with a Case Study on the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem with Deadlines Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 73(1), 74-85, 2013
M. Montemanni, M. Mojana, G. A. Di Caro, L. Gambardella, A decomposition-based exact approach for the Sequential Ordering Problem, Journal of Applied Operational Research (JAOR), vol. 5, 2013
L. M. Gambardella, R. Montemanni, and D. Weyland. Coupling ant colony systems with strong local searches. European Journal of Operational Research, 220(3), 831-843, 2012
C. Pinciroli, V. Trianni, R. O'Grady, G. Pini, A. Brutschy, M. Brambilla, N. Mathews, E. Ferrante, G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, M. Birattari, L. M. Gambardella, M. Dorigo, ARGoS: A Modular, Parallel, Multi-Engine Simulator for Multi-Robot Systems, Swarm Intelligence Journal, Volume 6, Issue 4, pp. 271-295, 2012
R. Montemanni and L.M. Gambardella A note on the article “A robust branch-and-cut approach for the minimum-energy symmetric network connectivity problem” Omega 40, 817, 2012
A. Giusti, P. Taddei, C. Magli, G. Corani, L. Gambardella, L. Gianaroli, Artificial Defocus for Displaying Markers in Microscopy Z-Stacks. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol 17, Issue 12, 1757-1764, 2011.
D. Anghinolfi, R. Montemanni, M. Paolucci and L.M. Gambardella, A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization approach for the Sequential Ordering Problem Computers and Operations Research 38(7), 1076-1085, 2011
A. Giusti, C. Magli, G. Corani, L. Gambardella, L. Gianaroli, Observing the 3-Dimensional Morphology of 4-Cell Embryos using Computer Analysis of Image Z-Stacks. Human Reproduction (Supplement: Abstract book) vol.26 2011.
Ducatelle F., Di Caro G.A., Pinciroli C., Gambardella L., Self-organized cooperation in robotic swarms, Swarm Intelligence Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 73-96, 2011
M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, G. A. Di Caro, R. Doursat, A. Engelbrecht, L. M. Gambardella, R. Gross, E. Sahin, T. Stuetzle (Eds.), Editorial, ANTS 2010 Special Issue , Swarm Intelligence, Springer, Vol. 5, N. 3-4, 2011
Ciresan, D. C., U. Meier, L. M. Gambardella & J. Schmidhuber. 2010. Deep Big Simple Neural Nets For Handwritten Digit Recognition. Neural Computation 22(12): 3207-3220.
A. de Moura Meneses, L. M. Gambardella, R. Schirru, A Class-Based Search for the In-Core Fuel Management Optimization of a Pressurized Water Reactor, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Volume 37, Issue 11, November 2010, Pages 1554-1560
Ducatelle F., Di Caro G.A., Gambardella L.M., Principles and applications of swarm intelligence for telecommunications networks, Swarm Intelligence Journal, Vol. 4, N. 3, pp. 173-198, 2010
A. de Moura Meneses,, C. J. G. Pinheiro, P. Rancoita, T. Schaul, L. M. Gambardella, R. Schirru, Assessment of neural networks training strategies for histomorphometric analysis of synchrotron radiation medical images. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 621, Issues 1-3, 1 September 2010-21 September 2010, Pages 662-669
A de Moura Meneses, L.M. Gambardella, R. Schirru. A new approach for heuristics-guided search in the In-Core Fuel Management Optimization, Progress in Nuclear Energy 52 (2010) 339–351
R. Montemanni, D.H. Smith, A.E. Rizzoli and L.M. Gambardella. Sequential Ordering Problems for Crane Scheduling in Port Terminals. International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, Volume 5, Number 4 / 2009 pp. 348 – 361.
A de Moura Meneses, L.M. Gambardella, R. Schirru. A new approach for heuristics-guided search in the In-Core Fuel Management Optimization, Progress in Nuclear Energy 52 (2010) 339–351
R. Montemanni and L.M. Gambardella. Ant Colony System for Team Orienteering Problems with Time Windows. Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences 34, 2009.
Engelbrecht, A., Li, X., Gambardella, L. and Middendorf, M. (2009), Guest editorial: "Special Issue: Swarm Intelligence", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(13): 676-677, August 2009.
Montemanni R.,Smith D.H., Gambardella L.M, A heuristic manipulation technique for the sequential ordering problem, Computers and Operations Research, Volume 35, Number 12, December 2008, 3931-3944
L.M. Gambardella, A. Hertz, F. Maffray, M. Widmer, 2009, Sixth International Conference on Graphs and Optimization 2007: Foreward, Discrete Applied Mathematics 157(17), 3495-3496.
Bianchi L., Dorigo M., Gambardella L.M., and Gutjahr W.j, A survey on metaheuristics for stochastic combinatorial optimization.. Natural Computing, July 2008.
Donati A.V., Montemanni R., Casagrande N., Rizzoli A.E. and Gambardella L.M.. Time dependent vehicle routine problem with a multi ant colony system, European Journal of Operational Research, 185 (3), p.1174-1191, March 2008
A.E. Rizzoli, R. Montemanni, E. Lucibello and L.M. Gambardella. Ant Colony Optimisation for real world vehicle routing problems: from theory to applications. Swarm Intelligence, Vol. 1, No 2, p. 135-151, December 2007.
Montemanni R., Barta J., Mastrolilli M. and Gambardella L.M., The robust traveling salesman problem with interval data, Transportation Science, Vol . 41, No 3, pp. 366-381, August 2007.
Babaoglu O., Canright G., Deutsch A., Di Caro G., Ducatelle F., Gambardella L.M., Ganguly N., Jelasity M., Montemanni R., Montresor A. and Urnes T.. Design patterns from biology for distributed computing . ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol.1, No.1, 26-66, September 2006.
Montemanni R., Gambardella L.M., Rizzoli A.E. and Donati A.V. Ant colony system for a dynamic vehicle routing problem . Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 10, 327-343, December 2005.
Di Caro G.A., Ducatelle F., Rizzoli A., Gambardella L.M., Building blocks from biology for the design of algorithms for the management of modern dynamic networks European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) News, Special Issue on Emergent Computing, N. 64, January 2006
Di Caro G.A., Ducatelle F., Gambardella L.M., BISON: Biology-Inspired techniques for Self-Organization in dynamic Networks, Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Special Issue on Swarm Intelligence, Vol.4 November 2005
Ducatelle, F. and Gambardella, L. M. Survivable Routing in IP-over-WDM Networks: An Efficient and Scalable Local Search Algorithm. Optical Switching and Networking , Volume 2, Pages 86-99, 2005.
Montemanni R and Gambardella L.M. The robust shortest path problem with interval data via Benders decomposition, 4OR, 3(4), 315-328, December 2005.
Di Caro, G., Ducatelle, F. and Gambardella, L. M. AntHocNet: An Adaptive Nature-Inspired Algorithm for Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT), Special Issue on Self Organization in Mobile Networking, Volume 16, Number 5, Pages 443-455, September-October 2005.
Mondada, F., Gambardella, L.M., Floreano, D., Nolfi, S., Deneubourg, J-L., Dorigo, M., The Cooperation of Swarm-bots: Physical Interactions in Collective Robotics. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol. 12, No 2, 21-28, June 2005.
Ducatelle F., Di Caro G., Gambardella L.M., Using Ant Agents to Combine Reactive and Proactive Strategies for Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, International Journal on Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA), Special Issue on Nature-Inspired Approaches to Networks and Telecommunications, Volume 5, Number 2, Pages 169-184, June 2005.
Gambardella L.M, Martello S., Metaheuristics and worst-case guarantee algorithms: relations, provable properties and applications, European Journal of Operation al Research, 166, 1-2, 2005.
Mastrolilli M. Gambardella L.M. Maximum satisfiability: How good are tabu search and plateau moves in the worst-case?. European Journal of Operational Research, 166, 63-76, 2005.
Montemanni R. and Gambardella L.M.. Exact algorithms for the minimum power symmetric connectivity problem in wireless networks. Computers and Operations Research, 32(11), 2891-2904, November 2005.
Montemanni, R., Gambardella L.M. A branch and bound algorithm for the robust spanning tree problem with interval data. European Journal of Operational Research, 161(3), 771-779, March 2005.
Dorigo, M., Trianni, V., Sahin, E., Labella, T., Grossy R., Baldassarre, G., Nolfi, S., Deneubourg J-L., Mondada, F., Floreano D., Gambardella, L.M., Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-bot, Swarm Robotics special issue of the Autonomous Robots journal, 17(2-3), 223-245, 2004.
Mondada F., Pettinaro G., Guignard A., Kwee I., Floreano D., Deneubourg J-L., Nolfi S., Gambardella L.M., Dorigo M., Swarm-Bot: a New Distributed Robotic Concept, Swarm Robotics special issue of the Autonomous Robots journal, v. 17(2-3), p. 193-221, 2004.
Montemanni, R Gambardella, L.M. and Donati A.V., A branch and bound algorithm for the robust shortest path problem with interval data. Operations Research Letters, 32(3), 225-232, May 2004.
Montemanni, R., Gambardella L.M. An exact algorithm for the robust shortest path problem with interval data, Computers and Operations Research, 31(10), 1667-1680, September 2004.
Gambardella, L.M., Rizzoli E. Funk P, Agent-based Planning and Simulation of Combined Rail/Road Transport, Simulation, Vol. 78, Issue 5, pp. 293-303, May 2002.
Rizzoli, A.E., Fornara, N., Gambardella, L.M. A simulation tool for combined rail/road transport in intermodal terminals. Mathematics and Computer in Simulation. Vol 59, pp. 57-71 2002.
Gambardella, L.M, Mastrolilli M., Rizzoli A.E., Zaffalon M., Managing resource allocation, scheduling and simulation for an intermodal container terminal, JORBEL, Journal of the Belgian Operations Research Society, Special Issue on OR Models in a Harbour and Maritime Environment vol. 40, no. 3-4, pp. 195-209, 2002.
Dorigo M., Gambardella L. M, Middendorf M. and Stützle T. Guest Editorial -- Special Section on Ant Colony Optimization, IEEE Transactions On Evolutionary Computation, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 317-320, 2002.
Gambardella, L.M, Mastrolilli M., Rizzoli A.E., Zaffalon M., An optimization methodology for intermodal terminal management, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 12 (5/6):521-534, October 2001
Ijspeert A.J., Martinoli A., Billard A., Gambardella L.M., Collaboration through the exploitation of local interactions in autonomous collective robotics: the stick pulling experiment, Autonomous Robots, Nr 11(2), pp 149-171, 2001.
Taillard E.D., Gambardella L.M., Gendreau M., Potvin J.-Y. Adaptive memory programming: A unified view of metaheuristics, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 135, Nr 1, pp. 1-16, 2001.
Gambardella L.M, Dorigo M., An Ant Colony System Hybridized with a New Local Search for the Sequential Ordering Problem, INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol.12(3), pp. 237-255, 2000, HAS-SOP PAGE
Mastrolilli, M., Gambardella, L.M., Effective Neighborhood Functions for the Flexible Job Shop Problem,, Journal of Scheduling, vol.3(1), pp. 3-20, 2000 FJSP WWW PAGE
Gambardella L.M, Taillard E., Dorigo M., Ant colonies for the Quadratic Assignment Problem, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 50, pp.167-176,1999
Dorigo M., G. Di Caro and L. M. Gambardella. Ant Algorithms for Discrete Optimization. Artificial Life, 5,2, pp. 137-172, 1999.
Gambardella L.M., Rizzoli A.E., Zaffalon M. Simulation and Planning of an Intermodal Containers Terminals, Special Issue of Simulation Journal in Harbour and Maritime Simulation, Vol. 21, No 2, pp. 107-116, August 1998.
Taillard É. D., Gambardella L., Gendreau M., Potvin J.Y., "La Programmation à mémoire adaptative ou l'évolution des algorithmes évolutifs", Calculateurs Paralèlles, v.10 n°2/1998.
Dorigo M., Gambardella L.M, Ant Colony System: A Cooperative Learning Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Vol. 1,No. 1,pp. 53-66, 1997
Dorigo M., Gambardella L.M, Ant Colonies for Traveling Salesman Problem , BioSystems,No. 43,pp. 73-81, 1997

Adwards

Nomination for best conference paper - Awarded to the paper “Connectivity-aware planning of search and rescue missions”, E. Feo, M. Kudelski, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, 11th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Linkoping, Sweden, October 21-26, 2013.
Best conference paper - Awarded to the paper “Bioinspired obstacle avoidance algorithms for robot swarms”, J. Guzzi, A. Giusti, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS), Lugano, Switzerland, December 10-11, 2012.
Best conference research paper - Awarded to the paper “An algorithm combining linear programming and an ant system for the sequential ordering problem”, M. Mojana, R. Montemanni, G.A. Di Caro and L.M. Gambardella, Second Annual International Conference on Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (ATAI), Singapore, November 24-25, 2011.
Best conference poster - Awarded to the paper “Distributed motion planning for ground objects using a network of robotic ceiling cameras”, A. Reina, G.A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, L.M. Gambardella, 12th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Sheffield, UK, August 31-September 2, 2011.
Best conference paper - Awarded to the paper “AntHocNet: an Ant-Based Hybrid Routing Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle and L.M. Gambardella, 8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII) , Birmingham, UK, 18-22 September 2004.

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