1992-2007
3. Manuel Amaral Fortes, Vitorino Ramos, Aldina Soares; Grain Growth in one Dimension: the Mean Field Approach, Materials Science Forum, Vol. 94-96, pp. 337-344, Trans Tech. Publications, Switzerland, 1992.

13. Vitorino Ramos, Fernando Muge; Less is More - Genetic Optimisation of Nearest Neighbour Classifiers, Proc. RecPad´98 - 10th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, F.Muge, C.Pinto and M.Piedade Eds., ISBN 972-97711-0-3, pp. 293-301, Lisbon, March 1998.

21. Vitorino Ramos, Pedro Pina, Fernando Muge; From Feature Extraction to Classification: A multidisciplinary Approach applied to Portuguese Granites, SCIA´99 – 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, ISBN 87-88306-42-9, Vol.2, pp. 817-824, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, 7-11 June 1999. 

24. Pedro Pina, Vitorino Ramos, Fernando Muge; Stochastic Geometry Simulation using Granulometrical Features, in Kleingeld W.J. & Krige D. (Eds.), GEOSTAT´2000 - 6th International Congress on GeoStatistics, 10-14 April 2000, volume 2, pp. 912-921, Geostatistical Association of Southern Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, 2000.

25. Vitorino Ramos, Fernando Muge; On Image Filtering, Noise and Morphological Size Intensity Diagrams, RecPad´2000 - 11th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, in Aurélio C. Campilho and A.M. Mendonça (Eds.), ISBN 972-96883-2-5, pp. 483-491, Porto, Portugal, May 11-12, 2000.

26. Vitorino Ramos, Fernando Muge; Image Colour Segmentation by Genetic Algorithms, RecPad´2000 - 11th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, in Aurélio C. Campilho and A.M. Mendonça (Eds.),  ISBN 972-96883-2-5, pp. 125-129, Porto, Portugal, May 11-12, 2000.

28. Richard Bouché, Hubert Emptoz, ...Vitorino Ramos, et al, DEBORA: Digital AccEss to BOoks of the RenAissance - Projet Européen NLB 5608 A, brochure presented at CIFED´2000 - 2éme Colloque Internacional Francophone sur l’écrit et le Document, (special session) related with DEBORA project, 157 pages, Lyon, France, June 2000.

29. Vitorino Ramos, Filipe Almeida, Artificial Ant Colonies in Digital Image Habitats - A Mass Behaviour Effect Study on Pattern Recognition, Proceedings of ANTS´2000 - 2nd International Workshop on Ant Algorithms (From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants), Marco Dorigo, Martin Middendorf & Thomas Stüzle (Eds.), pp. 113-116, Brussels, Belgium, 7-9 Sep. 2000. 

30. F. Muge, I. Granado, M. Mengucci, P. Pina, V. Ramos, N. Sirakov, J.R. Caldas Pinto, A. Marcolino, Mário Ramalho, P. Vieira, A. Maia do Amaral, Automatic Feature Extraction and Recognition for Digital Access of Books of the Renaissance, Proc. of  ECDL'´000 - 4th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, J. Borbinha and T. Baker (Eds.), ISBN 3-540-41023-6, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1923, pp. 1-13, Springer-Verlag -Heidelberg, Lisbon, Portugal, 18-20 Sep. 2000.

31. Vitorino Ramos, Fernando Muge, Map Segmentation by Colour Cube Genetic K-Mean Clustering, Proc. of  ECDL´2000 - 4th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, J. Borbinha and T. Baker (Eds.), ISBN 3-540-41023-6, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1923, pp. 319-323, Springer-Verlag -Heidelberg, Lisbon, Portugal, 18-20 Sep. 2000.

32. A. Marcolino, V. Ramos, M. Ramalho, J. Caldas Pinto, Line and Word Matching in Old Documents, Proc. of  SIARP´2000 - 5th IberoAmerican Symposium on Pattern Recognition, Fernando Muge, Moisés Piedade & R. Caldas Pinto (Eds.), ISBN 972-97711-1-1, pp. 123-135, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-13 Sep. 2000.

33. Vitorino Ramos, Genetic Clustering Towards Image Segmentation, Proc. of  SIARP´2000 - 5th IberoAmerican Symposium on Pattern Recognition, Fernando Muge, Moisés Piedade & R. Caldas Pinto (Eds.), ISBN 972-97711-1-1, pp. 61-68, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-13 Sep. 2000. 

34. Vitorino Ramos, Artificial Neoteny in Evolutionary Image Segmentation, Proc. of  SIARP´2000 -  5th IberoAmerican Symposium on Pattern Recognition, Fernando Muge, Moisés Piedade & R. Caldas Pinto (Eds.), ISBN 972-97711-1-1, pp. 69-78, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-13 Sep. 2000.

35. Vitorino Ramos, The Biological Concept of Neoteny in Evolutionary Colour Image Segmentation - Simple Experiments in Simple Non-Memetic Genetic Algorithms, in Applications of Evolutionary Computation, (Eds.), EvoIASP´01 - 3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing [helded by EuroGP´01 - European Conference on Genetic Programming], Lake Como, Milan, Italy, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2037, pp. 364-378, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, April 18-20, 2001.

36. Vitorino Ramos, The MC2 Project [Machines of Collective Conscience]: A possible walk, up to Life-like Complexity and Behaviour, from bottom, basic and simple bio-inspired heuristics – a walk, up into the morphogenesis of information, UTOPIA Biennial Art Exposition, Cascais, Portugal, July 12-22, 2001.

37. Vitorino Ramos, On the Implicit and on the Artificial - Morphogenesis and Emergent Aesthetics in Autonomous Collective Systems, in ARCHITOPIA Book, Art, Architecture and Science, INSTITUT D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, J.L. Maubant et al. (Eds.), pp. 25-57, Chapter 2, ISBN 2905985631 - EAN 9782905985637, France, Feb. 2002.

38. M.H. Simões, M. Caetano, V. Ramos, J. Almeida, Darwinismo Sináptico e Geostatística em Modelação Espacial da Biodiversidade, in ESIG´2002 - VII Encontro de Utilizadores de Sistemas de Informação Geográfica, USIG, Tagus Park, Oeiras, 13-15 de Novembro 2002.

39. Vitorino Ramos, Fernando Muge, Pedro Pina, Self-Organized Data and Image Retrieval as a Consequence of Inter-Dynamic Synergistic Relationships in Artificial Ant Colonies, in Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Ajith Abraham and Mario Köppen (Eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Soft Computing Systems - Design, Management and Applications, 2nd Int. Conf. on  Hybrid Intelligent Systems, IOS Press, Vol. 87, ISBN 1 5860 32976, pp. 500-509, Santiago, Chile, Dec. 2002.

40. Stefano Bonduà, Vitorino Ramos, Evolution, Neoteny, and Semi-Variogram Model Fitting Search, in Sanchez-Vila, Xavier; Carrera, Jesus; Gómez-Hernández, Jaime (Eds.),  Kluwer, Vol.  13, ISBN: 1-4020- 2114-3, pp.500-502, GeoENV´2002 - Fourth European Conference on GeoStatistics for Environmental Applications, Nov. 27-29, 2002, Barcelona, Spain.

41. J.R. Caldas Pinto, P. Pina, V. Ramos, M. Ramalho, Clustering Techniques for Marbles Classification, in Proc. of RecPad´2002 -12th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, CD-ROM Ed., ISBN 972-789-067-9, Aveiro, Portugal, June 27-28, 2002.

42. Vitorino Ramos, Juan J. Merelo, Self-Organized Stigmergic Document Maps: Environment as a Mechanism for Context Learning, in AEB´2002 – 1st Spanish Conference on Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Algorithms, E. Alba, F. Herrera, J.J. Merelo et al. (Eds.), pp. 284-293, Centro Univ. de Mérida, Mérida, Spain, 6-8 Feb. 2002.

45. Vitorino Ramos, Ajith Abraham, Swarms on Continuous Data, in CEC´03 - Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, ISBN 078-0378-04-0, pp.1370-1375, Canberra, Australia, 8-12 Dec. 2003.

47. Vitorino Ramos, Self-Organizing the Abstract: Canvas as a Swarm Habitat for Collective Memory, Perception and Cooperative Distributed Creativity, in 1st Art & Science Symposium – Models to Know Reality, J. Rekalde, R. Ibáñez and Á. Simó (Eds.), pp. 59, Facultad de Bellas Artes EHU/UPV, Universidad del País Vasco, 11-12 Dec., Bilbao, Spain, 2003.

48. Ajith Abraham, Vitorino Ramos, Web Usage Mining Using Artificial Ant Colony Clustering and Genetic Programming, in CEC´03 - Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, ISBN 078-0378-04-0, pp. 1384-1391, Canberra, Australia, 8-12 Dec. 2003.

51. Vitorino Ramos, Ajith Abraham, Evolving a Stigmergic Self-Organized Data-Mining, in ISDA-04, 4th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Systems, Design and Applications, Budapest, Hungary, ISBN 963-7154-30-2, pp. 725-730, August 26-28, 2004.

52. Srinivas Mukkamala, Andrew H. Sung, Ajith Abraham, Vitorino Ramos, Intrusion Detection Systems using Adaptive Regression Splines, in Enterprise Informations Systems VI, Seruca, I.; Cordeiro, J.; Hammoudi, S.;  Filipe, J. (Eds.), ISBN 1-4020-3674-4, Spinger-Verlag, 2005.

53. Vitorino Ramos, Jonathan Campbell, John Slater, John Gillespie, Ivan F. Bendezu and Fionn Murtagh, Swarming around Shellfish Larvae Images, in WCLC-05, 2nd World Congress on Lateral Computing, Bangalore, India, 16-18 Dec., 2005.

54. Vitorino Ramos, Ajith Abraham, ANTIDS: Self-Organized Ant-based Clustering Model for Intrusion Detection Systems,  in Swarm Intelligence and Patterns special session at WSTST-05 - 4th IEEE Int. Conf. on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology - Japan, LNCS series, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 977-986, May 2005.

55. Vitorino Ramos, Pedro Pina, Exploiting and Evolving Rⁿ Mathematical Morphology Feature Spaces, in Ronse Ch., Najman L., Decencière E. (Eds.), Mathematical Morphology: 40 Years On, pp. 465-474, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2005.

56. Carlos Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos, Agostinho C. Rosa, Varying the Population Size of Artificial Foraging Swarms on Time Varying Landscapes, in W. Duch, J. Kacprzyk, E. Oja, S. Zadrozny (Eds.), Artificial Neural Networks: Biological Inspirations, Proc. ICANN´05: 15th Int. Conf., Warsaw, Poland, LNCS series, Vol. 3696, Part I, pp. 311-316, Springer-Verlag, Sept. 2005.

57. Crina Grosan, Ajith Abraham, Sang Yong Han, Vitorino Ramos, Stock Market Prediction using Multi Expression Programming, in ALEA´05, Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms at EPIA´05 - Proc. of the 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, C. Bento, A. Cardoso and G. Dias (Eds.), IEEE Press, pp. 73-78, 2005.

58. Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes and Agostinho C. Rosa, On Ants, Bacteria and Dynamic Environments, in NCA-05, Natural Computing and Applications Workshop, Timisoara, Romania, Sep. 25-29, 2005.

59. Carlos Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos and Agostinho C. Rosa, Self-Regulated Artificial Ant Colonies on Digital Image Habitats, in Int. Journal of Lateral Computing, IJLC, vol. 2, nº 1, pp. 1-8, ISSN 0973-208X, Dec. 2005.

60. Abraham, Ajith; Grosan, Crina; Ramos, Vitorino (Eds.), Stigmergic Optimization, Studies in Computational Intelligence (series), Vol. 31, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-34689-9, 295 p., Hardcover, 2006.

61. Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa, On Self-Regulated Swarms, Societal Memory, Speed and Dynamics, in Artificial Life X - Proc. of the Tenth Int. Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, L.M. Rocha, L.S. Yaeger, M.A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R.L. Goldstone and A. Vespignani (Eds.), MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-68162-5, pp. 393-399, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, June 3-7, 2006.

62. Abraham, Ajith; Grosan, Crina; Ramos, Vitorino (Eds.), Swarm Intelligence in Data Mining, Studies in Computational Intelligence (series), Vol. 34, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-34955-3, 267 p., Hardcover, 2006.

63. Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa, Social Cognitive Maps, Swarm Collective Perception and Distributed Search on Dynamic Landscapes, submitted to A. Porto, A. Pazos, W. Buno (Eds.), Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Biological Process Applications, IDEA Group Inc., 2007.

64. Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa, Societal Implicit Memory and his Speed on Tracking Extrema over Dynamic Environments using Self-Regulatory Swarms, to appear soon.

65. Fernandes, C., Ramos, V., Rosa, A.C., Stigmergic Optimization in Dynamic Binary Landscapes, in SAC´07 - 22nd ACM Symp. on Applied Computing, ACM/ SIGAPP press, pp. 747-748, Seoul, Korea, March 2007.

69. Fernandes, C., Rosa, A.C., Ramos V., Binary Ant Algorithm, in Dirk Thierens et al. (Eds.), GECCO´07 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 41-48, ACM Press, London, UK, 7-11 July, 2007.

70. Ramos, V., Fernandes, C., Rosa, A.C., Abraham, A., Computational Chemotaxis in Ants and Bacteria over Dynamic Environments, in CEC´07 - Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, USA, ISBN 1-4244-1340-0, pp. 1009-1017, Sep. 2007.