Professional Activities

Journal Editorships

• Evolutionary Computation Journal (MIT Press)

Guest Editor

• Special Issue:  Automated Design and Assessment of Heuristic Search Methods. (2011) Guest Editors: Gabriela Ochoa, Mike Preuss, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Marc Schoenauer. Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ), MIT Press,
• Special Issue: Hyper-heuristics in Search and Optimisation (2009) Journal of Heuristics

Conference Organisation

• EvoCOP 2014 - 14th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation. Granada, Spain. Chairs: Christian Blum and Gabriela Ochoa 
• GECCO 2013, 2012 - Tutorial Chair Message

Conference Tracks and Special Session

• GECCO 2013  - Track Chair: Self-* Search
  
• CEC 2013 - Session Chair: Hyper-heuristics
• LION 5 Special Session (2011) "Self-tuning, Self-configuring and Self-generating Evolutionary Algorithms" (Self* EAs). Jan 17-21, 2011, Rome, Italy. Organisers: Gabriela Ochoa and  Marc Schoenauer.
• Meta'10 Special Session: Fitness Landscapes and Metaheuristics. Organisers: Sébastien Verel and Gabriela Ochoa
• IEEE WCCI 2010 Special Session: "Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms, Hyper-Heuristics and Memetic Computation" (HHMC2010),  Jul 18-23, 2010, Barcelona, Spain. Organisers: Gabriela Ochoa, Shaheen Fatima, Ferrante Neri, Yew-Soon Ong.
• LION 4 Special Session (2010) "Crossing the Chasm for Evolutionary Computation" (LION-CCEC). Jan 18-22, 2010, Venice, Italy. Organisers: Gabriela Ochoa and  Marc Schoenauer.

Workshops

• GECCO 2014 Workshop Organisation
  
• PURO
  
• Women@GECCO
• Autonomous Search, SiCSA SEABIS Workshop, University of Stirling: May 1st, 2013
• Self-tuning, self-configuring and self-generating search heuristics (Self* 2010) 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2010). Organisers: Gabriela Ochoa, Marc Schoenauer, and Darrell Whitley.
• Automated Heuristic Design: Crossing the Chasm for Search Methods (2009) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009).
  
• Hyper-heuristics - Automated Heristic Design (2008) 10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN X). 

Journal Reviews

• Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Journal
• Information Sciences
  
• Journal of Scheduling
• Journal of Heuristics
• Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
  
• Soft Computing Journal
• Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Journal
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B Journal

Programme Committees

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO, 2002, 2003,
  2006, 2009-2015.
  
• Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN - LION,  2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
• European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial
  Optimisation -  EvoCOP, part of Evo* Workshops, 2008-2015.
• European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Numerical
  Optimisation -  EvoNUM, part of Evo* Workshops, 2008, 2009, 2010.
• Workshop on Emergent Computing (WEC), Jornadas Chilenas de Computacion, 2009.
• International Conference on Artificial Evolution - EA, 2007, 2009.
• International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for
  Optimization - NICSO, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
• Workshop on Evolutionary Computation (EC2AI), to held concurrently
  with European Conference on AI - ECAI, 2006.
• Workshop on Parameter setting in Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms,
  Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms Conference - GECCO'05, 2005.
• Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence - MICAI, 2002, 2005.
• Congreso Mexicano de Computacion Evolutiva (Mexican Congress on
  Evolutionary Computing) - COMCEV'03, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2003.
• Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (Latinoamerican Conference
  on Informatics) - CLEI'03, La Paz, Bolivia, 2003.
• 4Th Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, 2002.