(April 26th 2017) New paper A meta-grammatical evolutionary process for portfolio selection and trading. I Contreras, JI Hidalgo, L Nuñez-Letamendía- Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

(April 25th 2017) New paper Glucose Prognosis by Grammatical Evolution . JI Hidalgo, JM Colmenar, G Kronberger, SM Winkler - EUROCAST 2017

(April 24th 2017) – Ignacio Hidalgo has been elected as a member of the SPECIES (Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe and Surroundings) executive board

(October 4th 2016) – New paper accepted. A hybrid automated trading system based on multi.objective grammatical evolution. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

(July 4th 2016) – Ignacio Hidalgo arrived to University of applied sciences upper Austria

(June 24th 2016) – Ignacio Hidalgo has been granted by Spanish Ministry of Education for a 3 months research stay at University of applied sciences upper Austria, with a mark of 9.5/10. Congratulations!!

(May 30th-June 1st 2016) – Jose-Manuel Colmenar and Ignacio Hidalgo visited Professors Stephan Winkler and Gabriel Kronberger for 2nd Workshop Absys- University of applied sciences upper Austria.

(May 9th 2016) – Our final version of the paper “Predicting Glycemia in Diabetic Patients By Evolutionary Computation and Continuous Glucose Monitoring” was submitted for publication at Medical Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (MedGEC).

(April 20th 2016) – New Special Issue on “Evolutionary Algorithms on Parallel Architectures and Distributed Infrastructures” – International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications - SAGE Journals . The purpose of this special issue will be to provide a reference of the state-of-the-art in the synergies arising from two different but related fields: Parallel and Distributed Infrastructures and Evolutionary Computation. More info. You can also see the CFP.

(April 18th 2016) Francisco Fernández-de-Vega visited us and gave a nice talk about Automatic Generation of Video games contents using Genetic Programming.

(April 1st 2016) New paper available on-line: Compilable Phenotypes: Speeding-Up the Evaluation of Glucose Models in Grammatical Evolution.J. Manuel Colmenar, J. Ignacio Hidalgo , Juan Lanchares, Oscar Garnica, Jose-L. Risco, Iván Contreras, Almudena Sánchez, J. Manuel Velasco Applications of Evolutionary Computation Volume 9598 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 118-133

(March 2nd-3rd 2016) Ignacio Hidalgo has visited Professors Rafael Villanueva, Juan-Carlos Cortés, at the Instituto de Matématica Multidisciplinar of the Technical University of Valencia for working on the identification of parameters of Therapeutic models for Diabetics

(Feb 1st_2nd 2016) Thanks to Professor Sthephan Winkler, Almudena Sánchez-Sánchez Ph.D and Esther Maqueda M.D.for the great workshop at ABSYs

(Jan 27th 2016) Our Poster “COMPARING GENETIC PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES AND CLASSICAL METHODS ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF GLYCEMIA PREDICTION MODELS” has been accepted for E-POSTER VIEWING presentation at ATTD 2016.

(Jan 4th 2016) Our Paper “Compilable phenotypes: Accelerating the evaluation of individuals in Grammatical Evolution”, submitted to EvoAPP 2016, has been accepted for inclusion in the proceedings. The work has been selected for an interactive oral presentation

(Dec 1st 2015) New paper available on-line: Using Evolutionary Algorithms to determine the residual stress profile across welds of age-hardenable aluminum alloys. J.I. Hidalgo, F. Cioffi, J.M. Colmenar, R. Fernández, J.L. Risco, G. González-Doncel Applied Soft Computing Journal

(Sep 15th 2015) New paper available on-line: Modeling and predicting the Spanish Bachillerato academic results over the next few years using a random network model. J.C. Cortés, J.M. Colmenar, , J.I. Hidalgo, A. Sánchez-Sánchez, F.J. Santonja, R.J. Villanueva Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

(Sep 10th 2015) David Cuesta-Gómez has been awarded with the Best Ph.D. Thesis award from the Computer Science faculty of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, for his thesis "Thermal aware design techniques for multiprocessor architectures in three dimensions." developed at ABSys

(July 17th 2015) Thermal-aware floorplanner for 3D IC, including TSVs, liquid microchannels and thermal domains optimization. David Cuesta, José L. Risco-Martín, José L. Ayala, J. Ignacio Hidalgo Applied Soft Computing

Oscar Garnica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) visited University of Oslo from 1st of June to 31st of July of 2015, thanks to Project 014-ABEL IM-2014A –UCM-EEA Abel Extraordinary Chair– Coordinated Mobility of Researchers - NILS Science and Sustainability (ES07)

Our Project “Development of Adaptive and Bioinspired Systems for Glycemic Control using Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitors in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus” has been granted for the next 3 years by the Spanish Goverment. April 16th, 2015.

Iván Contreras Ph.D from MICELab group of the Universitat de Girona (Spain) will visit us from April 7th to April 10th 2015 and will give us a talk titled “Diabetes: Hidden Patterns in Time Series. (Diabetes: Patrones ocultos en series temporales).

Ignacio Hidalgo has visited Instituto de Matématica Multidisciplinar of the Technical University of Valencia for giving a talk on Multi-Objective Optimization with Evolutionary Algorithms on March 31st 2015.

Our group is organizing the seminar “Brief Introduction to R” to be held during the “Semana de la Informática” at the Computer Science School. April 8th, 2015

New paper available on-line: Optimizing L1 cache for embedded systems through grammatical evolution. Josefa Díaz Álvarez, J. Manuel Colmenar, José L. Risco-Martín, Juan Lanchares, Oscar Garnica. Soft Computing

Our Paper “Ajuste Probabilístico de Modelos de Glucosa obtenidos mediante Gramáticas Evolutivas” has been nominated to the Best Paper Award of Congreso nacional sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB) 2015

Professors Rafael Villanueva, Juan-Carlos Cortés, Francisco Santonja and Almudena Sánchez from the Instituto de Matématica Multidisciplinar of the Technical University of Valencia have visited us on a Workshop on Probabilistic Fitting on 29th and 30th January 2015.

New paper: Preface of our Special Issue at J of Grid Computing. Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms on the Grid and Cloud http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10723-014-9322-7

Professor Stephan Winkler from the Department for Medical and Bioinformatics, School of Informatics, Communications and Media at University of Applied Sciences in Upper Austria has visited us with a very interesting talk on 17th November 2014 about Identification of Virtual Tumor Markers and Tumor Diagnosis Predictors Using Evolutionary Algorithms

Our group will held and participate as Local Organization Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Gecco 2015, in Madrid July 11-15, 2015.

Our group is co-organizing EvoPar 2015, in conjunction with GEA Group at Universidad de Extremadura, to be held during Evo*. The main European Conference on Evolutionary Computation.

New Special Issue: “Special Issue on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms on the Grid and Cloud” Journal of Grid Computing, Springer , Wiley.