Günther Raidl's International Organizational Activities

This is an almost complete list of all my international organizational activities.

  • Program committee member of the 14th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), Konstanz, Germany, October 2024.
  • Program committee member of the Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2024), Lorient, France, June 2024.
  • Reviewer for the University of Leuven for positions of research professors, December 2023.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2024 (EvoCOP 2024), Aberystwyth, Wales, April 2024.
  • Reviewer for the journal IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC), August 2023.
  • Reviewer for the journal Int. Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR), June 2023.
  • Program committee member of the 9th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Grasmere, Lake District, England, September 2023.
  • Co-Chair of the Workshop on Theory and Applications of Metaheuristic Algorithms at the 19th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST), Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2024.
  • Reviewer for the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARRS), May 2023.
  • Reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), German Research Foundation), May 2023.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2023 (EvoCOP 2023), Brno, Czech Republic, April 2023.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2021 (EvoCOP 2022), Madrid, Spain, April 2022.
  • Reviewer for the Fund for Scientific Research - FNRS, Belgium, May 2023.
  • Reviewer for the Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium, January 2022.
  • Reviewer for the National Research and Development Agency, Chile, October 2021.
  • Program committee member for the 11th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), online conference, February 2022.
  • Program committee member of the 13th World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC), online, December 2021.
  • Program committee member of the International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), online, December 2021.
  • Reviewer for the journal Springer Nature Computer Science, August 2021.
  • Reviewer for the journal Neural Computing and Applications, July 2021.
  • Program committee member of the 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Grasmere, Lake District, England, October 2021.
  • Co-Chair of the Workshop on Theory and Applications of Metaheuristic Algorithms at the 18th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST), Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2022.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Computers & Operations Research, June 2021.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2021 (EvoCOP 2021), Seville, Spain, April 2021.
  • Reviewer for the journal Int. Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR), December 2020.
  • Reviewer for the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), November 2020.
  • Program committee member for the 10th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), online conference, February 2021.
  • Program Committee Member for the 8th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (ICVNS2020), Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., October 2020.
  • Program committee member of the 1st International Workshop on Heuristic Search (HSI20) in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Yokohama, Japan, July 2020.
  • Program committee member of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Yokohama, Japan, July 2020.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track at the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Cancun, Mexico, July 2020.
  • Program committee member of the 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Siena, Italy, July 2020.
  • Program committee member of the 16th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2020), Leiden, The Netherlands, September 2020.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2020 (EvoCOP 2020), Seville, Spain, April 2020.
  • Program committee member of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming (CPAIOR), Vienna, Austria, May 2020.
  • Program committee member for the 9th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), Valetta, Malta, Portugal, February 2020.
  • Program committee member of the 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), Barcelona, Spain, October 2020.
  • Reviewer for the journal Evolutionary Computation, August 2019.
  • Reviewer for the journal Constraints, July 2019.
  • Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization​, since June 2019.
  • Program Committee Member of the 11th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA), Vienna, Austria, September 2019.
  • Program committee member of the 5th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Siena, Italy, September 2019.
  • Co-Chair of the Metaheuristics Stream at Operations Research 2019 (OR 2019), Dresden, Germany, September 2019.
  • Program Committee Member for the 7th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (ICVNS2019), Rabat, Morocco, October 2019.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track at the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Prague, Czech Republic, July 2019.
  • Program committee member of the Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2019), Cartagena, Colombia, July 2019.
  • Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation, December 2018.
  • Reviewer for the 36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2019), Berlin, Germany, March 2019.
  • Reviewer for the journal OMEGA, September 2018.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2019 (EvoCOP 2019), Leipzig, Germany, April 2019.
  • Speaker at the Metaheuristcs Summer School 2018 (MESS), Acireale, Sicily, July 2018.
  • Co-Chair of the Workshop on Theory and Applications of Metaheuristic Algorithms at the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST), Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2018.
  • Program committee member of the 11th Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2019), Conception, Chile, January 2019.
  • Steering committee member of EvoAPPS, the Int. Conference Series on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, since March 2018.
  • Reviewer for the Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium, March 2018.
  • Reviewer for the Central European Journal of Operations Research (CJOR), March 2018.
  • PhD examiner for the Unviersity of Antwerp, Belgium, May 2018.
  • Program committee member of the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Volterra, Italy, September 2018.
  • Program committee member of the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2018.
  • Program committee member of the 11th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), Rome, Italy, October 2018.
  • Program committee member of the 12th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Time Tabling (PATAT 2018), Vienna, Austria, August 2018.
  • Program committee member of the 15th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2018), Coimbra, Portugal, September 2018.
  • Editorial board member of the Metaheuristics journal, Springer, since January 2018.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track at the 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Kyoto, July 2018.
  • Program committee member of Matheuristics 2018, the International Workshop on Model Based Metaheuristics, Tours, France, June 2018.
  • Research proposal evaluator for the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation (RPF), September 2017.
  • Program Committee Member for the 6th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (ICVNS2018), Sithonia, Greece, October 2018.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2018 (EvoCOP 2018), Parma, Italy, April 2017.
  • Program committee member for the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), Madeira, Portugal, January 2018.
  • Local Organization Committee member of the ALGO 2017 congress, Vienna, September 2017.
  • Reviewer for the 8th Int. Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL 2017), Southampton, UK, October 2017.
  • Reviewer for the EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting, Budapest, September 2017.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Discrete Algorithms, April 2017.
  • Reviewer for the Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium, April 2017.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, April 2017.
  • PhD examiner for the University of Adelaide, Australia, March 2017.
  • Reviewer for Int. Conf. on Optimization and Decision Science (ODS 2017), XLVII Meeting of AIRO, Sorrento, Italy, September 2017.
  • Program committee member of the Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2017), Barcelona, Spain, July 2017.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Computers & Operations Research, January 2017.
  • Program committee member of the 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2017), San Sebastian, Basque Country, June 2017.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2017 (EvoCOP 2017), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2017.
  • Reviewer for the Journal International Transactions in Operational Research, November 2016.
  • Program committee member of the Generally Evolutionary Computation and Hybrids Track at the 2017 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Berlin, Germany, July 2016.
  • Reviewer for the 11th Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM), Hsinchu, Japan, March 2017.
  • Referee for the Austrian Exchange Service (Österreichischen Austauschdienst), September 2016.
  • Reviewer for the Central European Journal of Operations Research, September 2016.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Heuristics, August 2016.
  • Reviewer for the European Journal of Operational Research, August 2016.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Computers & Operations Research, August 2016.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Parallel and Distributed Systems, June 2016.
  • Program Committee Member for the 4nd International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS2016), Malaga, Spain, October 2016.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Heuristics, May 2016.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Transportation Research Part B, May 2016.
  • Program committee member for the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), Porto, Portugal, February 2017.
  • Program committee member of the 5th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2016.
  • Reviewer for the Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium, March 2016.
  • Reviewer for 4th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO), Salerno, Italy, May 2016.
  • Program committee member of the 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Vancouver, Canada., July 2016.
  • Program committee member of the 10th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), Brussels, Belgium, September 2016
  • Program committee member of the 6th International Workshop on Model Based Metaheuristics (Matheuristics), Brussels, Belgium, September 2016
  • Management Board Member of the EU COST Action CA15140 Improving Applicability of Nature-Inspired Optimisation by Joining Theory and Practice (ImAppNIO), since January 2016
  • Co-Chair of the Workshop on Theory and Applications of Metaheuristic Algorithms at the 16th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST), Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2017.
  • Reviewer for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), January 2016
  • Program committee member of the 6th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (META'2016), Marrakech, Morocco, October 2016
  • Program committee member of the Second International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data (MOD 2016), Volterra, Italy, August 2016
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary and Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristic Track at the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Denver, Colorado, July 2016.
  • PhD referee for the Tel Aviv University, Israel, December 2015
  • Reviewer for the 2016 European Control Conference (ECC 2016), Aalborg, Denmark, December 2016
  • Reviewer for The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Research Council), September 2015.
  • Steering committee and program committee member of the 10th Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2016), Plymouth, UK, June 2016.
  • Reviewer for a staff promotion at the University of Adelaide, Australia, August 2015.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2015 (EvoCOP 2016), Porto, Portugal, March 2016.
  • PhD examiner for the University of Adelaide, Australia, April 2015.
  • Program committee member for the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), Rome, Italy, February 2016.
  • Program committee member for the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), Dubai, January 2015.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary and Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristic Track at the 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Madrid, Spain, July 2015.
  • Program committee member of the 6th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL), Delft, The Netherlands, September 2015.
  • Reviewer for the International Journal of Soft Computing and Networking (IJSCN), October 2014.
  • Reviewer for the journal Computers & Operations Research (COR), August 2014.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2015 (EvoCOP 2015), Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2015.
  • Co-Chair of the Workshop on Theory and Applications of Metaheuristic Algorithms at the 15th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2015.
  • Reviewer for the Slovenian Research Agency, August 2014.
  • Reviewer for the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF-YDUN), July 2014.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Optimization Methods and Software, June 2014.
  • Program committee member of the 3rd Int. IFToMM Conference on Graph Modelling in Engineering (GME), Bielsko-Biala, Poland, September 2015.
  • Program committee member of the 5th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL), Valparaíso, Chile, September 2014.
  • Program committee member of the Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION9), Lille, France 2015.
  • Member of the advisory board of the Memetic Computing Lab (McLab) at the School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, since March 2014.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Transportation Science, April 2014.
  • Reviewer for the European Journal on Operational Research (EJOR), October 2014.
  • Program committee member for the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), Dubai, UAE, January 2015.
  • Steering committee and program committee member of the 9th Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2014), Hamburg, Germany, June 2014.
  • Reviewer for the 22nd European Conference for Information Systems (ECIS), Tel Aviv, June 2014.
  • Program Committee Member for the 3nd International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search Metaheuristic, Djerba, Tunisia, October 2014.
  • Program committee member of the 4th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (META 14), Marakkech, Morocco, October 2014.
  • Program committee member of the 5th International Conference on Computational Logistics, September 2014.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2014 (EvoCOP 2014), Baeza, Spain, April 2014.
  • Program committee member of the Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION8), Gainsville, Florida 2014.
  • Co-editor of the special issue on Metaheuristics of the Journal of Heuristics, August 2013.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Heuristics, August 2013.
  • Co-Chair of the Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track at the 2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Vancouver, Canada July 2014.
  • Reviewer for the journal BISE / Wirtschaftsinformatik, August 2013.
  • Reviewer for Computers & Operations Research, July 2013.
  • Program committee member for the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), Angers, France, March 2014.
  • Reviewer for Networks, June 2013.
  • Executive Board member of ÖGOR, the Austrian Society of Operations Research, since January 2013.
  • Reviewer for the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, March 2013.
  • Reviewer for the University of Antwerp for academic staff promotion, March 2013.
  • Reviewer for Transportation Science, March 2013.
  • Reviewer for the European Journal on Operational Research (EJOR), February 2013.
  • Reviewer for Networks, February 2013.
  • Program committee member of the 8th Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2010), Ischia, Italy, May 2013.
  • Program committee member of The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Architecture, Design, Deployment and Management of Networks & Applications (ADMNET) at the 37th Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference, Kyoto, Japan, July 2013.
  • Local Co-Organizer of EvoStar 2013, The Leading European Event on Bioinspired Computation, Vienna, Austria, April 2013.
  • Program Chair of the 10th Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC) 2013, Singapore, August 2013.
  • Co-Chair of the Workshop on Theory and Applications of Metaheuristic Algorithms at the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2013.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Global Optimization, January 2013.
  • Reviewer for the International Network Optimization Conference (INOC) 2013, Tenerife, Spain, May 2013.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary & Metaheuristic Combinatorial Optimization Track at the 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2013.
  • Program committee member of LION 7, the 7th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference, Catania, Italy, January 2013.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Soft Computing, September 2012
  • Reviewer for the Journal Flexible Services and Manufacturing, June 2012
  • Reviewer for the French Research National Agency (SPAHI), June 2012
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, June 2012
  • Program committee member of Matheuristics 2012, the Fourth International Workshop on Model Based Metaheuristics, Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2012
  • EvoStar Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe, April 2012
  • Reviewer for the French Research National Agency (SPAHI), March 2012
  • External PhD reviewer for the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, February 2012
  • Program committee member of the 9th Int. Conf. on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL 2012), Hanoi, Vientam, December 2012
  • Reviewer for a PhD thesis at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, February 2012.
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Emergent Technology Technical Committee Member (IEEE CIS ETTC), 2012.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary & Metaheuristic Combinatorial Optimization Track at the 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Philadelphia, July 2012.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2012, Malaga, Spain, April 2012.
  • Reviewer for the Journal RAIRO - Operations Research, October 2011.
  • Program committee member of the 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2012), Taormina, Italy, September 2012.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, October 2011.
  • Program committee member of LION 6, the 6th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference, Paris, January 2012.
  • Program committee member of ANTS 2012, the 8th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, September 2012.
  • Program Committee Member for the 2nd International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search Metaheuristic, Montenegro, October 2012.
  • Reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), September 2011.
  • Reviewer for the Austrian Exchange Service (Österreichischen Austauschdienst), September 2011.
  • Committee member of the ÖGOR Bank Austria Unicredit Dissertationspreis (PhD dissertation award of the Austrian Operations Research Society), August 2011.
  • Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, July 2011.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Natural Computing, June 2011.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Discrete Applied Mathematics, February 2011.
  • Program committee member of the 11th IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, Munich, Germany, July 2011.
  • Reviewer for the 10th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms, Chania, Greece, May 2011.
  • Co-Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET 2011) in conjunction with the 11th IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications & the Internet (SAINT 2011), Munich, Germany, July 2011.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Mathematical Programming Computation, January 2011.
  • Reviewer for the journal Mathematical Problems in Engineering, November 2010.
  • Reviewer for the Central European Journal of Operations Research, October 2010.
  • Advisory board member of the 25th (Jubilee) European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS) 2011, Cracow, Poland, June 2011.
  • Program committee member of the 9th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC) 2011, Udine, Italy, July 2011.
  • Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, August 2010.
  • Guest-Editor of the Special Issue on Intelligent Computational Tools for Routing in Distribution Planning of the Journal Advances in Decision Science, 2010.
  • Co-Chair of the Third International Workshop on Information Network Design at the International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS 2010), Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2010.
  • Co-Chair of the Evolutionary & Metaheuristic Combinatorial Optimization Track at the 2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Dublin, Ireland, July 2011.
  • Co-Chair of the Workshop on Heuristic Problem Solving at the 13th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2011.
  • Reviewer for the Central European Journal of Operations Research, July 2010.
  • Program committee member of the Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION5), Rome, Italy, January 2011.
  • Reviewer for a PhD thesis at the Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic, March 2010
  • Program committee member of the International Network Optimization Conference (INOC) 2011, Hamburg, Germany, 2011
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Heuristics, April 2010.
  • Reviewer for the journal Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, March 2010.
  • Reviewer for the journal OR Spectrum, February 2010.
  • Reviewer for the journal Information Sciences, February 2010.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, November 2009.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, October 2009.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Computers and Operations Research, October 2009.
  • Program committee member of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN), Krakow, Poland, September 2010.
  • Program committee member of the Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 2010.
  • Program committee member of the International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (META10), Djerba Island, Tunisia, October 2010.
  • Program committee member of the International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (WIND09), Barcelona, Spain, November 2009.
  • Program committee member of the Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION4), Venice, Italy, January 2010.
  • Reviewer for Optimization Methods and Software, February 2008.
  • Editor-in-Chief and Program Chair of GECCO 2009, the 11th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, ACM, Montreal, Canada, July 2009.
  • Co-Chair of the Workshop on Heuristic Problem Solving at the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Gran Canaria, Spain, February 2009.
  • Co-Chair of the Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET 2008) at the 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, Turku, Finland, July 2008.
  • Program committee member of the 6th Int. Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, Udine, Italy, October 2009.
  • Reviewer for the European Journal on Operational Research (EJOR), January 2008.
  • Program committee member of the workshop SLS 2009, Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms - Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics, Brussels, Belgium, September 2009.
  • Member of the editorial board of the Internatianal Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications, Hindawi Publishing, invited November 2008.
  • Program committee member of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Track, Hawaii, March 2009.
  • Program committee member of the World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC), Orissa, India, February 2009
  • Reviewer for the journal Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier, August 2008.
  • Reviewer for the journal Algorithmica, June 2008.
  • Program Committee member of the International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, Tunisia, October 2008
  • Program committee member of the Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION3), Trento, January 2009.
  • Program committee member of the Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, Malaga, Spain, October 2008.
  • Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, January 2008.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Annals of Operations Research, January 2008.
  • Program committee member of the International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Dortmund, Germany, September 2008.
  • Program committee member of the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong Kong, June 2008.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Swarm Intelligence, November 2007.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Information Systems and Operational Research (INFOR), November 2007.
  • Program committee member of the European Workshop on Intelligent Computational Methods and Applied Mathematics (ICMAM2008), Cracow, March 2008.
  • Reviewer for the journal Algorithmica, November 2007.
  • Program committee member of the International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'08), Barcelona, Spain, September 2008.
  • Reviewer for the Computers & Operations Researc Journal, November 2007.
  • Reviewer for the INFORMS Journal on Computing, October 2007.
  • Program committee member of EvoPhD 2008, the second European Graduate Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Napels, Italy, April 2008.
  • Program committee member of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2008 (EvoCOP 2008), Naples, Italy, April 2008.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Engineering Optimization, September 2007.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications, September 2007.
  • Associate editor of the International Journal of Metaheuristics, Inderscience, since October 2007.
  • Editorial board member of the journal Memetic Computing, Springer, since October 2007.
  • Reviewer for the Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) Journal, September 2007.
  • Program committee member of the 23. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Forteleza, Brazil, March 2008.
  • Program committee member of Matheuristics 2008, the Second International Workshop on Model Based Metaheuristics, Bertinoro, Italy, June 2008.
  • Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, July 2007.
  • Program committee member of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2008, July 2008.
  • Reviewer for the European Journal of Operational Research, May 2007.
  • Program committee member of the 4th Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2007), Dortmund, Germany, October 2007.
  • Reviewer for the Evolutionary Computation Journal, April 2007.
  • Program committee member for the special session Analysis of Genetic Representations and Operators (AGRO 2007) at the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Singapore, September 2007.
  • Program committee member of MIC 2007, the 7th Metaheuristics International Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2007.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Heuristics, February 2007.
  • Program committee member of the 2nd Int. Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2007), November 2007.
  • Program committee member of the Evolution Artificielle conference, Tours, France, October 2007.
  • Reviewer for the Evolutionary Computation Journal, January 2007.
  • Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications, Hindawi Publishing, since January 2007.
  • Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, January 2007.
  • Reviewer for the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithms, December 2006.
  • Reviewer for the Slovak Research and Development Agency, December 2006.
  • Reviewer for the INFORMS Journal on Computing, October 2006.
  • Reviewer for the European Journal on Operational Research (EJOR), October 2006.
  • Reviewer for Networks (journal), special issue on trees, September 2006.
  • Program committee member of the Formal Theory Track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2007, London, U.K., July 2007.
  • Program committee member of the workshop SLS 2007, Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms - Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics, Brussels, Belgium, September 2007.
  • Program committee member of the 1st IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI'07), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007.
  • Referee for the Austrian Exchange Service (Österreichischen Austauschdienst), since September 2006.
  • Program committee member of the 2006 International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), Auckland, New Zealand, December 2006.
  • Program committee member of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Track, Seoul, Korea, March 2007.
  • Program committee member of EvoPhD 2007, the second European Graduate Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Valencia, Spain, April 2007.
  • Member of the scientific committee of IWINAC-2007, the 2nd Int. Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, 2007.
  • Reviewer for the Special Issue on Variable Neighborhood Search of the European Journal of Operational Research, 2006.
  • Reviewer for the post-conference publications of the Applications of Operational Research for Development (ORPA) 2005 Conference, 2006.
  • Founder and steering committee member of EvoCOP, the series of European Conferences on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, since 2001.
  • Reviewer for the journal Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier, since April 2006.
  • Advisory board member of the ECAI Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Riva del Garda, August 2006.
  • Review panel member of the Academy of Finland, Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, in the fields of computer science, since March 2006.
  • Reviewer for the the special issue "Bio-inspired Metaheuristics for Compbinatorial Optimization Problems" of the journal Computers and Operations Research, January 2006.
  • Reviewer for The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Research Council), since February 2006.
  • Reviewer for the journal Computers & Industrial Engineering, Elsevier, since February 2006.
  • Reviewer for the First Conference on Operational Research Practice in Africa, ORPA 2005, post conference proceedings, 2005.
  • Program committee member of the 3rd Int. Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, Gran Canaria, Spain, October 2006.
  • Reviewer for the Int. Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, since December 2005.
  • Reviewer for the journal Natural Computing, since October 2005.
  • Chair of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Conference 2006 (EvoCOP 2006), Budapest, Hungary, April 2004.
  • Program committee member of EvoPhD 2006, the first European Graduate Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Budapest, Hungary, April 2006.
  • Program committee member of EvoComNet 2006, the third Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Communications, Networks, and Connected Systems, Budapest, Hungary, April 2006.
  • Program committee member of the Ninth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Reykjavic, Iceland, September 2006.
  • Program committee member of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Track, Dijon, France, April 2006.
  • Program committee member of the 2005 International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2005.
  • Reviewer for the Journal Discrete Optimization, since April 2003.
  • Program committee member of the International Conference on Machine Intelligence (ACIDCA-ICMI) 2005, Tozeur, Tunisia, November 2005.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Operational Research Society (JORS), since March 2005.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, since March 2005.
  • Referee for the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 2005.
  • Program committee member of the 10th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, Cranfield University, U.K., September 2005.
  • Program committee member of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Track, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2005.
  • Reviewer for the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms 2005, Bancouver, British Columbia, January 2005.
  • Associate editor of the Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press, since January 2006.
  • Program committee member of the 4th EU/ME Workshop on Design and Evaluation of Advanced Hybrid Metaheuristics, Nottingham. U.K., November 2004.
  • Program committee member of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, Lille, France, October 2005.
  • Program committee member of EvoComNet 2005, the second Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Communications, Networks, and Connected Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2006.
  • Chair of the Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization Track at the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Washington D.C., June 2005.
  • Technical co-chair of the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Edinburgh, U.K., September 2005.
  • Chair of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization 2005 Conference (EvoCOP 2005), Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2004.
  • Program committee member of the 2004 International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), Kitakyushu, Japan, December 2004.
  • Reviewer for the journal Machine Graphics & Vision, March 2004.
  • Program committee member of MIC 2005, the 6th Metaheuristics International Conference, Vienna, ia, August 2005.
  • Reviewer for the special issue of Computers and Operations Research on Logistics of Health Care Management, December 2003.
  • Reviewer for the INFORMS Journal on Computing, since December 2003
  • Program committee member of the Eigth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Birmingham, U.K., September 2004.
  • Program committee member of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2004, Portland, Oregon, June 2004.
  • Reviewer for the European Journal of Operational Research, since August 2004.
  • Program committee member of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Track, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 2004.
  • Program committee member of EvoComNet 2004, the first Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Communications, Networks, and Connected Systems, Coimbra, Portugal, April 2004.
  • Chair of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization 2004 (EvoCOP 2004), Coimbra, Portugal, April 2004.
  • Chair of EvoWorkshops 2004, Coimbra, Portugal, April 2004.
  • Chair of the Fourth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization 2004 (EvoCOP 2004), Coimbra, Portugal, April 2004.
  • Program committee member of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2003, Canberra, Australia, December 2003.
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, since Mai 2003.
  • Program committee member of the 30th Int. Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2003), Workshop on Fundamentals of Evolutionary Algorithms, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 2003.
  • Referee for the 7th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 2003.
  • Reviewer for the IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, March 2003.
  • Program committee member of the 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2003), Melbourne, Australia, December 2003.
  • Program committee member of the 2003 Workshop on Analysis and Design of Representations and Operators (ADoRO), Chicago, USA, July 2003.
  • Member of the organizing committee of the 2003 Workshop on Application of Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms to NP-Complete Problems (EvoHybridNP), Chicago, USA, July 2003.
  • Program committee member of the 4th International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA IV), Chicago, USA, July 2003.
  • Reviewer for the GRAPHIT2003 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and South East Asia, Melbourne, Australia, February 2003.
  • Chair of EvoWorkshops 2003, proceedings editor, and chair of the Third European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization 2003, Essex, U.K., April 2003.
  • Reviewer for the jubilee fund of the Austrian national bank (Jubiläumsfond der Österreichischen Nationalbank), 2002.
  • Program committee member of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Track, Melbourne, FL, March 2003.
  • Reviewer for the Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC) 2001 book, May 2002.
  • Program committee member of the 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'02), Santiago, Chile, December 2002.
  • Program committee member of the Mendel 2002 International Conference on Soft Computing, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2002.
  • Reviewer for the Science Foundation Ireland, since November 2001.
  • Program committee member of the Workshop on Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms 2002, New York, July 2002.
  • Program committee member of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2002, New York, July 2002.
  • Referee for the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lyon, France, July 2002.
  • Referee for the Journal of Heuristics, since September 2001.
  • Referee for Applied Mathematics Letters (journal), since June 2001.
  • Chair and proceeding's editor of the Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization 2002, Kinsale, Ireland, April 2002.
  • Referee for Operations Research (INFORMS journal), since May 2001.
  • Program committee member of the Seventh International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Granada, Spain, September 2002.
  • Program committee member of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Hawaii, May 2002.
  • Co-chair of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Track, Madrid, Spain, March 2002.
  • Chair and proceeding's editor of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization 2001, Como, Italy, April 2001.
  • Referee for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (journal), IEEE Press, since March 2001.
  • Referee for the European Symposium on Algorithms 2001, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2001
  • Referee for the 5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 2001.
  • Referee for the Information Processing Letters (journal), Elsevier, since December 2000.
  • Program committee member of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001, San Francisco, CA, July 2001.
  • Program committee member of the Workshop on Representations and Operators for Network Problems at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001, San Francisco, CA, July 2001.
  • Scientific board member of the 6th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, September 2001.
  • Program committee member of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Seoul, Korea, May 2001.
  • Referee for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (journal), IEEE Press, since September 2000.
  • Co-chair of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Track, Las Vegas, NV, March 2001.
  • Program committee member of the International Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Kosice, Slovakia, September 2000.
  • Program committee member of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, July 2000.
  • Referee for Information Science (journal), Elsevier Science, since May 2000.
  • Co-chair of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Track, Como, Italy, March 2000.
  • Referee for The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, since Dezember 1999.
  • Program committee member of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Orlando, Florida, July 1999.
  • Program committee member of the 3rd Int. Mendel Conference on Genetic Algorithms, Brno, Czech Republic, June 1999.
  • Referee for the Computer Animation 99 conference, 1999.
  • Associated node member of EvoNet (European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation), since 1999.
  • Co-editor of the proceedings of the Int. Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology, Las Vegas, NV, July 1998.
  • Program committee member of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Paris, France, July 1998.