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Swarm Intelligence

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

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7461)

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

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

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Full Papers

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

      • Khalid M. Salama, Alex A. Freitas
      Pages 13-24
    2. Analysing Robot Swarm Decision-Making with Bio-PEPA

      • Mieke Massink, Manuele Brambilla, Diego Latella, Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari
      Pages 25-36
    3. Automatic Generation of Multi-objective ACO Algorithms for the Bi-objective Knapsack

      • Leonardo C. T. Bezerra, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Thomas Stützle
      Pages 37-48
    4. Bare Bones Particle Swarms with Jumps

      • Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie, Tim Blackwell
      Pages 49-60
    5. Hybrid Algorithms for the Minimum-Weight Rooted Arborescence Problem

      • Sergi Mateo, Christian Blum, Pascal Fua, Engin Türetgen
      Pages 61-72
    6. Improving the cAnt-MinerPB Classification Algorithm

      • Matthew Medland, Fernando E. B. Otero, Alex A. Freitas
      Pages 73-84
    7. Introducing Novelty Search in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics

      • Jorge Gomes, Paulo Urbano, Anders Lyhne Christensen
      Pages 85-96
    8. Measuring Diversity in the Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimizer

      • Adiel Ismail, Andries P. Engelbrecht
      Pages 97-108
    9. 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
    10. Scalability Study of Particle Swarm Optimizers in Dynamic Environments

      • Barend J. Leonard, Andries P. Engelbrecht
      Pages 121-132
    11. Self-reconfigurable Modular e-pucks

      • Lachlan Murray, Jon Timmis, Andy Tyrrell
      Pages 133-144
    12. The Self-adaptive Comprehensive Learning Particle Swarm Optimizer

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

    1. A Self-adaptive Heterogeneous PSO Inspired by Ants

      • Filipe V. Nepomuceno, Andries P. Engelbrecht
      Pages 188-195
    2. 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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