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Prof. Enrique Alba

''University of Málaga, SPAIN ''

Dr. Enrique Alba is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Málaga, Spain. He got his Ph.D. degree on designing and analyzing parallel and distributed genetic algorithms. His current research interests involve the design and application of evolutionary algorithms, ant colonies, particle swarm optimization, and other bio-inspired systems to real problems including telecommunications, software engineering, combinatorial optimization, and bioinformatics among others. The main focus of all his work is on parallelism and multiobjective approaches for complex problems.

Prof. Alba leads the Networking and Emerging Optimization group NEO at the university of Málaga, Spain.

Part of his ongoing research lies in the fields of ad hoc metropolitan network optimization, optimal design of GSM networks, logistics, vehicle routing, natural language tagging, software engineering, DNA fragment assembly, gene microarrays, cutting/packing, software testing and validation, and in general combinatorial problems lying in the base of real world problems.

New fields like multiobjective techniques with high scalability, grid/P2P/Internet platforms, dynamic optimization of problems whose definition change in time, and heterogeneous algorithms are dealt with as part both of basic and applied research. In these last years, Prof. Alba has been involved in several projects and PhD theses dealing with the construction and utilization of car wireless networks or VANETs.

As to the techniques, Prof. Alba and his group are dealing mainly with metaheuristics, either bio-inspired or not, and also hybridization with other (possibly exact) methods. In concrete, genetic algorithms, particle swarm, ant colonies, simulated annealing, branch and bound, differential evolution, variable neighbourhood search, and related solvers are used. Prof. Alba has published 7 books on metaheuristics and bio-inspired techniques, more than 50 papers indexed in ISI impact journals, and more than 200 conference papers. He has coordinated several Spanish national research projects like TRACER, OPLINK, M*, DIRICOM and the new roadME initiative. The internationalization of the work of Prof. Alba is very strong, by participating in billateral projects with INRIA like PERFOM, MOID or Robust&Green and European CELTIC projects like CARLINK or FP7 COADVISE. Prof. Alba holds active collaborations (join publications, visits, and exchanges) with more than 20 international universities and labs, and his research in Málaga is also provoking industrial transferences to several companies like TARTEC S.A., OPTIMI, Arelance, NOVASOFT, ETRA I+D, Moviquity, VTT, Synergiums, etc. Prof. Alba works in the program committee of well-known important conferences in several fields, like ACM GECCO, IEEE CEC, PPSN, Evo*, IPDPS and many more, as well has he organizes international events frequently. He also works as reviewer for journals like IEEE Transactions on: Evolutionary Computation, Education, and Parallel and Distributed Systems. Besides, he is an active reviewer to SMC, JPDC, PARCO, Journal of Heuristics, JMMA, EJOR, Computer Communications, MIT Evolutionary Computation, Software Practice and Experience, Information Sciences, etc.