I am a doctoral researcher at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.
I am part of the research group working at the EPSRC funded project "Evolutionary Approximation Algorithms for Optimisation: Algorithm Design and Complexity Analysis" under the supervision of Prof. Xin Yao. My research focuses on the use of EAs as approximation algorithms in the context of routing problems.
More information about this project are available on the CERCIA (Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications) website.
Pietro Consoli

Short bio

I was born in Catania, Sicily, Italy, in 1984.
In 2008 I obtained a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy.
Between 2010 and 2011 I was an Erasmus Student at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
I received my Postgraduate Degree in Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy, in 2012. The title of my master thesis was "A Colony of Artificial Bees for the Graph Coloring Problem".

Research Interests

My research interests include but are not limited to:
Combinatorial Optimization, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence, Nature Inspired Metaheuristics, Artificial Immune Systems, Complex Systems, Computational Biology.

Publications

  • P.Consoli, A. Collerà, and M. Pavone, Swarm Intelligence Heuristics for Graph Coloring Problem, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Cancún, México, June 20-23, 2013.

Other activity

I was member of the local organizing committee for the following conferences:
  • ICARIS 2012 - 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, August 28-31 2012, Taormina - Sicily, Italy,[link]
  • PPSN 2012 - 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, September 1-5 2012, Taormina - Sicily, Italy, [link]
  • ECAL 2013 - 21th European Conference on Artificial Life, September 2-6 2013, Taormina - Sicily, [link]

Awards

I received a nominee for Premio Archimede (Archimede Award) for Academic Year 2012/2013 from University of Catania for best graduates in Computer Science.

Address

Pietro Consoli
Room 125
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, West Midlands
B15 2TT, UK

E-mail

p.a.consoli {at} cs.bham.ac.uk

Skype

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