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Swarm Intelligence

12th International Conference, ANTS 2020, Barcelona, Spain, October 26–28, 2020, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 12421)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

Conference series link(s): ANTS: International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

Conference proceedings info: ANTS 2020.

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Table of contents (28 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Full Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. A Blockchain-Controlled Physical Robot Swarm Communicating via an Ad-Hoc Network

      • Alexandre Pacheco, Volker Strobel, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 3-15
    3. Ant Colony Optimization for Object-Oriented Unit Test Generation

      • Dan Bruce, Héctor D. Menéndez, Earl T. Barr, David Clark
      Pages 29-41
    4. Branched Structure Formation in a Decentralized Flock of Wheeled Robots

      • Antoine Gaget, Jean-Marc Montanier, René Doursat
      Pages 42-54
    5. Construction Task Allocation Through the Collective Perception of a Dynamic Environment

      • Yara Khaluf, Michael Allwright, Ilja Rausch, Pieter Simoens, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 82-95
    6. Grey Wolf, Firefly and Bat Algorithms: Three Widespread Algorithms that Do Not Contain Any Novelty

      • Christian Leonardo Camacho Villalón, Thomas Stützle, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 121-133
    7. HuGoS: A Multi-user Virtual Environment for Studying Human–Human Swarm Intelligence

      • Nicolas Coucke, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Axel Cleeremans, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 161-175
    8. Memory Induced Aggregation in Collective Foraging

      • Johannes Nauta, Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf
      Pages 176-189
    9. Modeling Pathfinding for Swarm Robotics

      • Sebastian Mai, Sanaz Mostaghim
      Pages 190-202
    10. Motion Dynamics of Foragers in Honey Bee Colonies

      • Fernando Wario, Benjamin Wild, David Dormagen, Tim Landgraf, Vito Trianni
      Pages 203-215
    11. Multi-robot Coverage Using Self-organized Networks for Central Coordination

      • Aryo Jamshidpey, Weixu Zhu, Mostafa Wahby, Michael Allwright, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 216-228

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2020, held online -due to COVID-19- in Barcelona Spain, in October 2020. The 20 full papers presented , together with 8 short papers and 5 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions.

ANTS 2020 contributions are dealing with any aspect of swarm intelligence. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Marco Dorigo, Thomas Stützle, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Volker Strobel

  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Maria J. Blesa

  • Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Bellaterra, Spain

    Christian Blum

  • University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Heiko Hamann

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