Editor of the book Swarm Intelligence Introduction and Appication (together with C. Blum). To be published in the Natural Computing series by Springer, scheduled for publication for end of 2007 / beginning of 2008.

Editor of a special issue of the Springer journal Swarm Intelligence on the topic Ant Colony Optimization, scheduled for publication end of 2008. (together with Dr. Karl Doerner, University of Vienna, Austria and Dr. Thomas Stützle, University Libre Brussels, Belgium)

Conference Organization: German Workshop on Artificial Life 2008 (GWAL-8). probably end of July 2008, Leipzig, Germany (together with Dr. Konstantin Klemm, University of Leipzig and Dr. Eckehard Olbrich, MPI Leipzig)

Conference Organization: Molecular Docking, Complexity, and Optimization (MDCO07), October 4-5, Dresden, Germany, Satellite workshop of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2007. (together with Dr. Carsten Baldauf, University of Dresden, Germany)

Workshop Organization: Special Session Swarm Intelligence and Computational Biologyat the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (2007) (together with Dr. Christian Blum, Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Editor of a special issue on Swarm Intelligence in the journal Künstliche Intelligenz, the journal of the AI section of the German Society for Informatics (vol 4, 2005) (together with C. Blum)