Memberships and Services

• member of the scientific and industrial advisory board for CERCIA at the University of Birmingham
• member of the CTA committee of the University of Birmingham
• senior member of the IEEE
• member of the Arbeitskreis PII (Physik, Informatik, Informationstechnik) of the DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft)
• member of the VDI Fachausschuss 5.14 Computational Intelligence
• member of the ACM, the ENNS and the DPG

Invited talks

• Evolutionary System Design. Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006.
• Evolutionary System Design. Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Applications, University of Birmingham, 2006.
• Natürlich Optimieren. Die Evolution im Windtunnel. Beitrag zur Ringvorlesung Bionik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt.
• Intelligente Systeme und der Honda Humanoide Roboter ASIMO. Gastvortrag in der Vorlesung Computational Intelligence, Prof. Dr. J. Adamy, Technischen Universität Darmstadt.
• Evolutionäre Optimierung in der Anwendung: Vom Turbinendesign zum visuellen System. 7. AIK-Symposium "Natürlich optimieren!" Karlsruhe, Germany.
• Evolution Strategies for Design Optimisation. Prof.Dr. Obayashi, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Conference activities

• Organization Commitee
  • International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 1996, Bochum, Germany

• Co-Chairing
  • Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, Singapore, Industrial Liaison Chair
  • 8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 2004 (PPSN VIII), Best Paper Chair
    
  • Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2003, Canberra, Australia, Competition Co-Chair
    
  • Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2002, Hawai, USA, Competition Co-Chair
  • Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2001, Seoul, Korea, Competition Co-Chair,
    Results of the Evolutionary Art Competition

• Member of Program Commitees
  • European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN 2006
  • Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006, 2005, 2004
  • IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, CIS 2006, 2005, 2004
  • Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN 2004, Birmingham, England; PPSN 2002, PPSN 2006
  • International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, CIRAS 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003.
  • Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2003, Hongkong, China.
  • Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, SEAL 2002, Singapore
  • Special track on NN in applications, 16th Int. Conference FLAIR 2003, ST.Augustine, FL, USA.
  • International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 1998
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000.

• Organisation of Special Sessions
  • European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN 2005, Brugge
    Special Session (together with Prof. Dr. C.Igel): Evolutionary and neural computation.
  • Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2003, Canberra, Australia
    Special Session: Evolutionary Design Optimization.
  • International Conference on Neural Information processing, ICONIP 2001, Taejon, Korea
    Special Session: The interaction between evolution and learning
    More info, accepted paper with abstracts
  • Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2001, Seoul, Korea
    Special Session: Surface and Curve Modelling & Optimisation with Evolutionary Computation

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