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  • JOURNALS
    1. Liao T., Molina D., Montes de Oca M. A., and Stützle T. A Note on Bound Constraints Handling for the IEEE CEC'05 Benchmark Function Suite. Evolutionary Computation., 22(2):351-359. 2014.
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    1. Liao T., Stützle T., Montes de Oca M. A., and Dorigo M. A Unified Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Continuous Optimization. European Journal of Operational Research, 243(3):597-609. 2014.
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    1. Liao T., Socha K., Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T., and Dorigo M. Ant Colony Optimization for Mixed-Variable Optimization Problems. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 18(4):503-518. 2014.
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    1. Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., and Stützle T. Computational Results for an Automatically Tuned CMA-ES with Increasing Population Size on the CEC'05 Benchmark Set. Soft Computing., 17(6):1031-1046. 2013.
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    1. Sambo F., Montes de Oca M. A., Di Camillo B., Toffolo G., and Stützle T. MORE: Mixed Optimization for Reverse Engineering. An application to modeling biological networks response via sparse systems of nonlinear differential equations. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 9(5):1459-1471. 2012.
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    1. Yuan Z., Montes de Oca M. A., Birattari M., and Stützle T. Continuous Optimization Algorithms for Tuning Real and Integer Parameters of Swarm Intelligence Algorithms. Swarm Intelligence, 6(1):49-75. 2012.
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    1. Dorigo M., Floreano D., Gambardella L. M., Mondada F., Nolfi S., Baaboura T., Birattari M., Bonani M., Brambilla M., Brutschy A., Burnier D., Campo A., Christensen A. L., Decugnière A., Di Caro G., Ducatelle F., Ferrante F., Fröster A., Martinez Gonzales J., Guzzi J., Longchamp V., Magnenat S., Mathews N., Montes de Oca M. A., O'Grady R., Pinciroli C., Pini G., Rétornaz P., Roberts J., Sperati V., Stirling T., Stranieri A., Stützle T., Trianni V., Tuci E., Turgut A. E. and Vaussard F. Swarmanoid: A Novel Concept for the Study of Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 20(4):60--71. 2013.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Ferrante E., Scheidler A., Pinciroli C., Birattari M., and Dorigo M. Majority-Rule Opinion Dynamics with Differential Latency: A Mechanism for Self-Organized Collective Decision-Making.. Swarm Intelligence, 5(3--4):305-327. 2011.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T., Van den Enden K., and Dorigo M. Incremental Social Learning in Particle Swarms. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, 41(2):368-384. 2011.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T., Birattari M., and Dorigo M. Frankenstein's PSO: A Composite Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(5):1120-1132. 2009.
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    1. Dorigo M., Montes de Oca M. A., and Engelbrecht A. Particle Swarm Optimization. Scholarpedia, 3(11):1486. 2008.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Garrido L., and Aguirre J.L. Efectos de la comunicación directa entre agentes en los algoritmos de agrupación de clases basados en el comportamiento de insectos sociales. Inteligencia Artificial, 3(25):59-69. 2005.
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  • BOOK CHAPTERS
    1. Montes de Oca M. A Incremental Social Learning in Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for Continuous Optimization. Computational Intelligence. Revised and Selected Papers of the International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2011. K. Madani et al. (Eds.) pp. 31-45. 2013. Springer. Berlin, Germany.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A, Cotta C., and Neri F. Local Search. Handbook of Memetic Algorithms. F. Neri, C. Cotta, and P. Moscato (Eds.) pp. 29-41. 2012. Springer. Berlin, Germany.
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    1. Stützle T., López-Ibañez M., Pellegrini P., Maur M., Montes de Oca M. A., Birattari M., and Dorigo M. Parameter Adaptation in Ant Colony Optimization. Autonomous Search. Y. Hamadi, E. Monfroy, and F. Saubion (Eds.) pp. 191-215. 2011. Springer. Berlin, Germany.
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    1. Dorigo M., Montes de Oca M. A., Oliveira S., and Stützle T. Ant Colony Optimization. Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. J. J. Cochran et al. (Eds.) Vol. 1, pp. 114-125. 2011. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York.
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  • PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS/ SYMPOSIA
    1. Montes de Oca M. A., and Rossi L. F. A Continuous-Time Binary Consensus Protocol with Hysteretic Units Applied to the Density Classification Problem. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. (ALIFE 2014). H. Sayama et al. (Eds.) New York, NY, USA. July-August 2014. pp. 934-940. MIT Press.
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    1. Kirby J., Montes de Oca M. A., Senger S., Rossi L. F., and Shen C. Tracking Time-dependent Scalar Fields with Swarms of Mobile Sensors. Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2013). T. Holvoet et al. (Eds.) Philadelphia, PA, USA. September 2013. pp. 159-168. Copyright IEEE Computer Society Press.
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    1. Yuan Z., Stützle T., Montes de Oca M. A., Lau H.-C., and Birattari M. An Analysis of Post-Selection in Automatic Configuration. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013). C. Blum (Ed.) Amsterdam, The Netherlands. July 2013. pp. 1557-1564. Copyright ACM.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Ferrante E., Scheidler A., and Rossi L. F. Binary Consensus via Exponential Smoothing. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (COMPLEX 2012). K. Glass et al. (Eds.) Santa Fe, NM, USA. December 2012 pp. 244-255. LNICTS 126. Copyright Springer.
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    1. Liao T., Molina D., Stützle T., Montes de Oca M. A., and Dorigo M. An ACO Algorithm Benchmarked on the BBOB Noiseless Function Testbed. Proceedings of the Workshop on Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012). A. Auger, N. Hansen, V. Heidrich-Meisner, O. Mersmann, P. Posik, and M. Preuss (Eds.) Philadelphia, PA, USA. July 2012 pp. 159-166. Copyright ACM.
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    1. Kirby J., Montes de Oca M. A., Senger S., Rossi L. F., and Shen C. Swarm Interpolation Using an Approximate Chebyshev Distribution. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2012). M. Dorigo et al. (Eds.) Brussels, Belgium. September 2012 pp. 324-331. LNCS 7461. Copyright Springer.
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    1. Aydin D., Liao T, Montes de Oca M. A., and Stützle T. Improving Performance via Population Growth and Local Search: The Case of the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA2011). J-K. Hao et al. (Eds.) Angers, France. October 2011. pp. 85-96. LNCS 7401. Copyright Springer.
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    1. Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., and Stützle T. Tuning Parameters across Mixed Dimensional Instances: A Performance Scalability Study of Sep-G-CMA-ES. Proceedings of the Workshop on Scaling Behaviours of Landscapes, Parameters and Algorithms of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011). E. Özcan, A. J. Parkes, and J. Rowe. (Eds.) Dublin, Ireland. July 2011. pp. 703-706. Copyright ACM.
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    1. Liao T., Montes de Oca M. A., Aydin D., Stützle T., and Dorigo M. An Incremental Ant Colony Algorithm with Local Search for Continuous Optimization. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011). N. Krasnogor et al. (Eds.) Dublin, Ireland. July 2011. pp. 125-132. Copyright ACM. [Winner of the best paper award in the Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence track]
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T., Birattari, M., and Dorigo M. Incremental Social Learning Applied to a Decentralized Decision-Making Mechanism: Collective Learning Made Faster. Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2010). I. Gupta et al. (Eds.) Budapest, Hungary. September-October 2010. pp. 243-252. Copyright IEEE Computer Society Press.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Ferrante E., Mathews N., Birattari, M., and Dorigo M. Opinion Dynamics for Decentralized Decision-Making in a Robot Swarm. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010). M. Dorigo et al. (Eds.) Brussels, Belgium. September 2010. pp. 252-263. LNCS 6234. Copyright Springer.  [Nominated for the best paper award]
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    1. Yuan Z., Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T., and Birattari M. Modern Continuous Optimization Algorithms for Tuning Real and Integer Algorithm Parameters. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010). M. Dorigo et al. (Eds.) Brussels, Belgium. September 2010. pp. 204-215. LNCS 6234. Copyright Springer.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Ferrante E., Mathews N., Birattari, M., and Dorigo M. Optimal Collective Decision-Making through Social Influence and Different Action Execution Times. Proceedings of the Workshop on Organisation, Cooperation and Emergence in Social Learning Agents of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2009). D. Curran and C. O'Riordan (Eds.) Budapest, Hungary. September 2009.
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    1. Spanevello P. and Montes de Oca M. A. Experiments on Adaptive Heterogeneous PSO Algorithms. Proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms. SLS-DS'09. F. Hutter and M. A. Montes de Oca (Eds.) Brussels, Belgium. September 2009. pp. 36-40.
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    1. Sambo F., Montes de Oca M. A., Di Camillo B., and Stützle T. On the Difficulty of Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks: A Study of the Fitness Landscape Generated by Relative Squared Error. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Evolution. EA'09. P. Collet et al. (Eds.) Strasbourg, France. October 2009. pp 74-85. LNCS 5975. Copyright Springer.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Peña J., Stützle T., Pinciroli C., and Dorigo M. Heterogeneous Particle Swarm Optimizers. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. CEC 2009. P. Haddow et al. (Eds.) Trondheim, Norway. May 2009. pp. 698-705. Copyright IEEE.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Van den Enden K., and Stützle T. Incremental Particle Swarm-Guided Local Search for Continuous Optimization. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics. M. J. Blesa et al. (Eds.) HM 2008. Málaga, Spain. October 2008. pp 72-86. LNCS 5296. Copyright Springer.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A. and Stützle T. Towards Incremental Social Learning in Optimization and Multiagent Systems. Proceedings of the Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation Workshop of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. W. Rand, S. G. Ficici, and R. Riolo (Eds.) ECoMASS - GECCO 2008. Atlanta, GA, USA. July 2008. pp 1939--1944. Copyright ACM.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A. and Stützle T. Convergence Behavior of the Fully informed Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. M. Keijzer et al. (Eds.) GECCO 2008. Atlanta, GA, USA. July 2008. pp 71-78. Copyright ACM.  [Nominated for the best paper award in the Ant Colony Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, and Artificial Immune Systems track]
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A. Exposing a Bias Toward Short-Length Numbers in Grammatical Evolution. Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on Genetic Programming. M. O'Neill, L. Vanneschi, S. Gustafson, A. I. Esparcia-Alcázar, I. De Falco, A. Della Cioppa, and E. Tarantino (Eds.) EuroGP 2008. Naples, Italy. March 2008. pp 278-288. LNCS 4971. Copyright Springer.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle, Birattari M., and Dorigo M. Composing Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms. Proceedings of Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms. SLS-DS'07. E. Ridge and T. Stützle and M. Birattari and H. H. Hoos (Eds.) Brussels, Belgium. September 2007. pp. 6-10. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles Technical Report No. TR/IRIDIA/2007-014
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    1. Iqbal M. and Montes de Oca M. A. An Estimation of Distribution Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence.M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, and T. Stützle (Eds.) ANTS 2006. Brussels, Belgium. September 2006. pp 72-83. LNCS 4150. Copyright Springer.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T., Birattari M., and Dorigo M. A Comparison of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms Based on Run-Length Distributions. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence. M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, and T. Stützle (Eds.) ANTS 2006. Brussels, Belgium. September 2006. pp 1-12. LNCS 4150. Copyright Springer.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Garrido L., and Aguirre J.L. Effects of Inter-agent Communication in Ant-based Clustering Algorithms: A Case Study on Communication Policies in Swarm Systems. Proceedings of the Fourth Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. A. Gelbukh, A. de Albornoz, and H. Terashima (Eds.) MICAI 2005. Monterrey, N.L. México. November 2005. pp 254-263. LNAI 3789. Copyright Springer.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Garrido L., and Aguirre J.L. A hybridization of an ant-based clustering algorithm with growing neural gas networks for classification tasks. 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Santa Fe, N.M. USA. March 2005. pp 9-13. Copyright ACM.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Garrido L., and Aguirre J.L. A first approach to study the effects of direct information exchange between agents in ant-based clustering. Proceedings of the First World Congress on Lateral Computing. Bangalore, India. December 2004. World Federation on Lateral Computing.  [Winner of the best paper award in the Swarm Intelligence/Evolutionary Computing session]
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Garrido L., and Aguirre J.L. On the effects of direct communication between agents in ant-based clustering algorithms. Fifth Iberoamerican Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems. Iberagents 2004. Puebla, México. November 2004.
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  • THESES
    1. Montes de Oca M. A. Incremental Social Learning in Swarm Intelligence Systems. Ph.D. thesis. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. July 2011.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A. On the Performance of Particle Swarm Optimizers. Diplôme d'Études Approfondies en Sciences Appliquées Thesis. Université Libre de Bruxelles. Brussels, Belgium. September 2006.
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    1. Montes de Oca M. A. Effects on clustering quality of direct and indirect communication among agents in ant-based clustering algorithms. Master's Thesis. Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. Campus Monterrey. Monterrey, N.L. México. May 2005.
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  • WORK IN PROGRESS (SUBMITTED ARTICLES)
    1. Montes de Oca M. A. and Rossi L. Density Classification with a Continuous-Time Binary Consensus Protocol with Hysteretic Units. Submitted.
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  • OTHERS
    1. Montes de Oca M. A. Social Reinforcement for Collective Decision-Making Over Time. Abstract Proceedings of the 1st Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making. RLDM 2013. Princeton, NJ. To appear.
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    1. Dorigo M., Birattari M., O'Grady R., Gambardella L. M., Mondada F., Floreano D., Nolfi S., Baaboura T., Bonani M., Brambilla M., Brutschy A., Burnier D., Campo A., Christensen A., Decugnière A., Di Caro G., Ducatelle F., Ferrante E., Martinez Gonzales J., Guzzi J., Longchamp V., Magnenat S., Mathews N., Montes de Oca M. A., Pinciroli C., Pini G., Rétornaz P., Rey F., Roberts J., Rochat F., Sperati V., Stirling T., Stranieri A., Stützle T., Trianni V., Tuci E., Turgut A. E., and Vaussard F. Swarmanoid, The Movie. AAAI-11 Video Proceedings 2011. [Winner of the best video award] Play the video
    1. Brutschy A., Montes de Oca M. A., and Pinciroli C. ANTS 2008 KI - Zeitschrift Künstliche Intelligenz 23(2) 2009. pp. 64.  Download the entry here
    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Stützle T., Birattari M. and Dorigo M. On the Performance Analysis of Particle Swarm Optimisers AISB Quarterly No. 124. The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour. Brighton, United Kingdom. Autumn/Winter 2006. pp. 6-7.  Download the issue here
    1. Montes de Oca M. A., Garrido L. and Aguirre J.L. A first approach to study the effects of direct information exchange between agents in ant-based clustering Abstract Compilation of the XXXV Congreso de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico. Tecnológico de Monterrey. Monterrey, N. L. México. January 2005. pp. 280.  Not available online.