Tutorials

• IEEE WCCI 2010 Tutorial: Hyper-heuristics: Towards Automated Heuristic Design. Organisers: Gabriela Ochoa, Matthew Hyde, and Edmund Burke.
• IEEE WCCI 2010 Tutorial: Fitness Landscapes And Graphs: Multimodularity, Ruggedness and Neutrality. Organisers: Sébastien Verel and Gabriela Ochoa

Special sessions

• 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

• Workshop on 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.
• Workshop on Automated Heuristic Design: Crossing the Chasm for Search Methods (2009) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009). Organisers: Gabriela Ochoa, Ender Ozcan, and Marc Shoenauer
• Workshop on Hyper-heuristics - Automated Heristic Design (2008) 10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN X). Organisers: Gabriela Ochoa and Ender Ozcan
  

Journal editorship

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

Journal reviews

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Journal
• Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press
• 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
  

Committee programmes

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO, 2002, 2003,
  2006, 2009, 2010.
• Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN - LION,  2010.
• European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial
  Optimisation -  EvoCOP, part of Evo* Workshops, 2008, 2009, 2010.
• 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.

Online contributions

• G. Ochoa (1998) An Introduction to Lindenmayer Systems, Botany online, The Internet Hypertextbook, University of Hamburg, Germany.
  
• A bibliography of hyper-heuristics and related approaches