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Swarm Intelligence

8th International Conference, ANTS 2012, Brussels, Belgium, September 12-14, 2012, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Marco Dorigo

    1. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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  2. Mauro Birattari

    1. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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  3. Christian Blum

    1. ALBCOM, Department Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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  4. Anders Lyhne Christensen

    1. Instituto de Telecomunicações & Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal

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  5. Andries P. Engelbrecht

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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  6. Roderich Groß

    1. Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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  7. Thomas Stützle

    1. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Full Papers

    1. A Particle Swarm Embedding Algorithm for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction

      • Oliver Kramer
      Pages 1-12

    2. ABC-Miner: An Ant-Based Bayesian Classification Algorithm

      • Khalid M. Salama, Alex A. Freitas
      Pages 13-24

    3. Analysing Robot Swarm Decision-Making with Bio-PEPA

      • Mieke Massink, Manuele Brambilla, Diego Latella, Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari
      Pages 25-36

    4. Automatic Generation of Multi-objective ACO Algorithms for the Bi-objective Knapsack

      • Leonardo C. T. Bezerra, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Thomas Stützle
      Pages 37-48

    5. Bare Bones Particle Swarms with Jumps

      • Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie, Tim Blackwell
      Pages 49-60

    6. Hybrid Algorithms for the Minimum-Weight Rooted Arborescence Problem

      • Sergi Mateo, Christian Blum, Pascal Fua, Engin Türetgen
      Pages 61-72

    7. Improving the cAnt-MinerPB Classification Algorithm

      • Matthew Medland, Fernando E. B. Otero, Alex A. Freitas
      Pages 73-84

    8. Introducing Novelty Search in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics

      • Jorge Gomes, Paulo Urbano, Anders Lyhne Christensen
      Pages 85-96

    9. Measuring Diversity in the Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimizer

      • Adiel Ismail, Andries P. Engelbrecht
      Pages 97-108

    10. Multi-armed Bandit Formulation of the Task Partitioning Problem in Swarm Robotics

      • Giovanni Pini, Arne Brutschy, Gianpiero Francesca, Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari
      Pages 109-120

    11. Scalability Study of Particle Swarm Optimizers in Dynamic Environments

      • Barend J. Leonard, Andries P. Engelbrecht
      Pages 121-132

    12. Self-reconfigurable Modular e-pucks

      • Lachlan Murray, Jon Timmis, Andy Tyrrell
      Pages 133-144

    13. Task Partitioning via Ant Colony Optimization for Distributed Assembly

      • James Worcester, M. Ani Hsieh
      Pages 145-155

    14. The Self-adaptive Comprehensive Learning Particle Swarm Optimizer

      • Adiel Ismail, Andries P. Engelbrecht
      Pages 156-167

    15. Towards Swarm Calculus: Universal Properties of Swarm Performance and Collective Decisions

      • Heiko Hamann
      Pages 168-179

  3. Short Papers

    1. A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for the Open Vehicle Routing Problem

      • Yannis Marinakis, Magdalene Marinaki
      Pages 180-187

    2. A Self-adaptive Heterogeneous PSO Inspired by Ants

      • Filipe V. Nepomuceno, Andries P. Engelbrecht
      Pages 188-195

    3. A “Thermodynamic” Approach to Multi-robot Cooperative Localization with Noisy Sensors

      • Yotam Elor, Alfred M. Bruckstein
      Pages 196-203

    4. AcoSeeD: An Ant Colony Optimization for Finding Optimal Spaced Seeds in Biological Sequence Search

      • Dong Do Duc, Huy Q. Dinh, Thanh Hai Dang, Kris Laukens, Xuan Huan Hoang
      Pages 204-211
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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, held in Brussels, Belgium, in September 2012. This volume contains 15 full papers, 20 short papers, and 7 extended abstracts carefully selected out of 81 submissions. The papers cover various topics of swarm intelligence.

Editors and Affiliations

  • IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Thomas Stützle

  • ALBCOM, Department Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Christian Blum

  • Instituto de Telecomunicações & Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal

    Anders Lyhne Christensen

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Andries P. Engelbrecht

  • Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Roderich Groß

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