Publications

Selected scientific publications authored or co-authored by Igor Balaž, reflecting the scientific foundations of Neovivum's research and technology development.

Books

Cancer, Complexity, Computation (2022)

Editors: Igor Balaž, Andrew Adamatzky

This interdisciplinary volume explores cancer through the lenses of complexity science, computational biology, artificial intelligence, and systems modelling. The book brings together contributions from researchers working across oncology, mathematics, computer science, and nanomedicine.

Publisher: Springer Nature | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04379-6 | ISBN: 978-3-031-04378-9

Springer Nature

Selected publications

2026

Balaz, I (2026) Measuring Understanding Through Discrete Compositional Knowledge Structures in Hierarchical Automata. AGI-26: AGI-26: The 19th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States, July 27-30, 2026

2025

Alcaraz-Herrera, H., Tsompanas, MA., Balaz, I., Adamatzky, A. (2026). Evaluating Fitness Averaging Strategies in Cooperative NeuroCoEvolution for Automated Soft Actuator Design. In: Marcelloni, F., Madani, K., van Stein, N., Filipe, J. (eds) Computational Intelligence. IJCCI 2025. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2828. Springer, Cham.

Alcaraz-Herrera, H., Tsompanas M.A., Balaz, I., Adamatzky, A. (2025) Designing morphologies of soft medical devices using cooperative neuro coevolution. GECCO ’25 Companion: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Proceedings

Sochorakis, N., Ana Firanj Sremac, A., Constantinou, M., Balaz, I., Odysseos, A. (2025) Next Generation Combined -Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products in the Electrospinning and Computational Biophysics Landscape. The 8th European Symposium on Electrohydrodynamic Atomization and Electrospinning 2025 28 – 30 April, 2025, Nicosia, Cyprus. Book of Abstracts

Alcaraz-Herrera, H., Tsompanas M-A., Balaz, A., Adamatzky A. (2025) Optimizing the substrate for Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmented Topologies to design soft actuators. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 37(21-22), e70204

2024

Teti, R., Caggiano, A., & Balaz, I. (2024). Bio-intelligent manufacturing cell for bio-hybrid machines fabrication. Procedia CIRP, 126, 865-868

Alcaraz-Herrera, H., Tsompanas, M-A., Balaz, I., Adamatzky, A. (2024) Using neuroevolution for designing soft medical devices. Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics. 5(1): 100205

Tsompanas M-A and Balaz I (2024), Outline of an evolutionary morphology generator towards the modular design of a biohybrid catheter. Front. Robot. AI 11:1337722.

Alcaraz-Herrera, Hugo, Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Igor Balaz, and Andrew Adamatzky. “Neuroevolution algorithms applied in the designing process of biohybrid actuators.” In International Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing, pp. 3-19. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.

Babic J., Knezevic D., Savic M., Kurbalija V., Balaz I. (2024) Machine Learning Optimizations of BioMeld-Voxelyze Simulator. SQAMIA 2024 – Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications. Novi Sad, Serbia, September 9-11, 2024

Alcaraz, H. Tsompanas M-A., Balaz, I., Adamatzky A (2024) Control of Biohybrid Actuators using Neuroevolution. Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence – ECTA; ISBN 978-989-758-721-4; ISSN 2184-3236, SciTePress, pages 197-204

Balaz, I (2024) Towards Evolvable Conscious: Learning and Adaptation in Diverse Environments. MoC5 – Models of Consciousness conference, September 30 – October 4, 2024, Bamberg, Germany

2023

Martín-Asensio, A., Dávila, S., Cacheux, J., Lindstaedt, A., Dziadosz, A., Witt, D., Calero, M., Balaz, I., Rodríguez, I. (2023) Recapitulating solid stress on tumor on a chip for nanomedicine diffusive transport prediction. Advanced NanoBiomed Research. 3(6): 2200164.

Balaz, I (2023) Computational tools in designing biohybrid robots. LivingMachines Conference 2023, Genova | Workshop 1: Biohybrid actuators and enabling technologies: step-by-step towards futuristic machines 10. July 2023

2021

Tsompanas M-A, Bull L, Adamatzky A, Balaz I (2021) Evolutionary Algorithms Designing Nanoparticle Cancer Treatments with Multiple Particle Types. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 16(4):85-99

Stillman N, Balaz I, Tsompanas M-A, Kovacevic M, Azimi S, Lafond S, Adamatzky A, Hauert S. (2021) Evolutionary computational platform for the automatic discovery of nanocarriers for cancer treatment. npj Comput Mater. 7, 150

Balaz I, Petric T, Stillman N (2021) Towards open-ended evolutionary simulator for developing novel tumour drug delivery systems. In Jitka Čejková, Silvia Holler, Lisa Soros, Olaf Witkowski; July 19–23, 2021. “The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (full proceedings pdf).” Proceedings of the ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life. ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life. Online. (pp. 119). ASME.

Balaz I, Sawa K, Petric T (2021) Evolution of functionality as the emergence of logical structures. IS4SI 2021 – The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (September 12-19, 2021)

Balaz I, Hauert S, Adamatzky A (2021) Editorial: Computational approaches in cancer modelling. BioSystems. 204: 104385

Tsompanas M-A, Bull L, Adamatzky A, Balaz I (2021) Metameric Representations on Optimization of Nano Particle Cancer Treatment. Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering. 4: 352-361

Balaz, I., Petric T., Kovacevic M.,Tsompanas, M-A., Stillman, N.R. (2021) Harnessing Adaptive Novelty for Automated Generation of Cancer Treatments. Biosystems. 199: 104290

Kovacevic, M., Balaz, I., Marson, D., Laurini, E., Jovic, B. (2021) Mixed-monolayer functionalized gold nanoparticles for cancer treatment: atomistic molecular dynamics simulations study. Biosystems. 202: 104354

2020

Stillman, N.R., Kovacevic, M., Balaz, I. Hauert S (2020) In silico modelling of cancer nanomedicine, across scales and transport barriers. npj Comput Mater 6, 92

Tsompanas, M-A., Bull, L., Adamatky, A., Balaz, I (2020) Novelty search employed into the development of cancer treatment simulations. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked. 19, 100347

Tsompanas, M-A., Bull, L., Adamatky, A., Balaz, I (2020) In silico optimization of cancer therapies with multiple types of nanoparticles applied at different times. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Ivanovic M, Balaz I (2020) Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Personalized Medical Predictions, Interventions and Quality of Life Issues. ICSTCC 2020 – 24th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, ICSTCC 2020, Sinaia, Romania, October 8-10, 2020. IEEE 2020, ISBN 978-1-7281-9809-5: 445- 450

2018

Gunji Y.-P., Balaz. I (2018) Embryogenic remodeling of global chromatin and its role on structure of corresponding lattice representation. Biosystems 173, 273-280.

2016

Mihailovic, DT, Kostic V, Balaz I, Kapor V (2016) Computing the Threshold of the Influence of Intercellular Nanotubes on Cell-to-Cell Communication Integrity. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 91, 174-179.

2014

Mihailović, D.T., Kostić, V., Balaz, I. Cvetković, Lj. (2014) Complexity and asymptotic stability in the process of biochemical substance exchange in a coupled ring of cells. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 65, 30-43.

2012

Mihailović, D.T., Budinčević, M., Perišić, D., Balaž, I. (2012): Maps Serving the Combined Coupling for use in Environmental Models and their Behavior in the Presence of Dynamical Noise. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 45, 156-165.

Mihailović, D. T., & Balaž, I. (2012). Synchronization in biochemical substance exchange between two cells. Modern Physics Letters B, 26(05), 1150031.

2011

Mihailović, D.T., Budinčević, M., Balaž, I., Mihailović, A. (2011): Stability of Intercellular Exchange of Biochemical Substances Affected by Variability of Environmental Parameters. Modern Physics Letters B Vol.25(32), 2407-2417