Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence: 4th International Workshop, ANTS 2004, Brussels, Belgium, September 5-8, 2004. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
A Comparison Between ACO Algorithms for the Set Covering Problem....Pages 1-12
A VLSI Multiplication-and-Add Scheme Based on Swarm Intelligence Approaches....Pages 13-24
ACO for Continuous and Mixed-Variable Optimization....Pages 25-36
An Ant Approach to Membership Overlay Design....Pages 37-48
An Ant Colony Optimisation Algorithm for the Set Packing Problem....Pages 49-60
An Empirical Analysis of Multiple Objective Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms for the Bi-criteria TSP....Pages 61-72
An External Memory Implementation in Ant Colony Optimization....Pages 73-82
BeeHive: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm Inspired by Honey Bee Behavior....Pages 83-94
Competition Controlled Pheromone Update for Ant Colony Optimization....Pages 95-105
Cooperative Transport of Objects of Different Shapes and Sizes....Pages 106-117
Deception in Ant Colony Optimization....Pages 118-129
Evolution of Direct Communication for a Swarm-bot Performing Hole Avoidance....Pages 130-141
Gathering Multiple Robotic A(ge)nts with Limited Sensing Capabilities....Pages 142-153
Improvements on Ant Routing for Sensor Networks....Pages 154-165
Integrating ACO and Constraint Propagation....Pages 166-177
Logistic Constraints on 3D Termite Construction....Pages 178-189
Modeling Ant Behavior Under a Variable Environment....Pages 190-201
Multi-type Ant Colony: The Edge Disjoint Paths Problem....Pages 202-213
On the Design of ACO for the Biobjective Quadratic Assignment Problem....Pages 214-225
Reasons of ACO’s Success in TSP....Pages 226-237
S-ACO: An Ant-Based Approach to Combinatorial Optimization Under Uncertainty....Pages 238-249
Time-Scattered Heuristic for the Hardware Implementation of Population-Based ACO....Pages 250-261
Ad Hoc Networking with Swarm Intelligence....Pages 262-269
An Ant Colony Heuristic for the Design of Two-Edge Connected Flow Networks....Pages 270-277
An Experimental Analysis of Loop-Free Algorithms for Scale-Free Networks....Pages 278-285
An Experimental Study of the Ant Colony System for the Period Vehicle Routing Problem....Pages 286-293
An Extension of Ant Colony System to Continuous Optimization Problems....Pages 294-301
Ant Algorithms for Urban Waste Collection Routing....Pages 302-309
Ants Can Play Music....Pages 310-317
Backtracking Ant System for the Traveling Salesman Problem....Pages 318-325
Colored Ants for Distributed Simulations....Pages 326-333
Dynamic Routing in Mobile Wireless Networks Using ABC-AdHoc....Pages 334-341
Fuzzy Ant Based Clustering....Pages 342-349
How to Use Ants for Hierarchical Clustering....Pages 350-357
Inversing Mechanical Parameters of Concrete Gravity Dams Using Ant Colony Optimization....Pages 358-365
Large Pheromones: A Case Study with Multi-agent Physical A*....Pages 366-373
Near Parameter Free Ant Colony Optimisation....Pages 374-381
Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Permutation Flowshop Sequencing Problem....Pages 382-389
Search Bias in Constructive Metaheuristics and Implications for Ant Colony Optimisation....Pages 390-397
Task Oriented Functional Self-organization of Mobile Agents Team: Memory Optimization Based on Correlation Feature....Pages 398-405
Towards a Real Micro Robotic Swarm....Pages 406-413
A Hybrid Ant Colony System Approach for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem....Pages 414-415
A Swarm-Based Approach for Selection of Signal Plans in Urban Scenarios....Pages 416-417
Ant Colony Behaviour as Routing Mechanism to Provide Quality of Service....Pages 418-419
Applying Ant Colony Optimization to the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem....Pages 420-421
Dynamic Optimization Through Continuous Interacting Ant Colony....Pages 422-423
Dynamic Routing in Traffic Networks Using AntNet....Pages 424-425
First Competitive Ant Colony Scheme for the CARP....Pages 426-427
Hypothesis Corroboration in Semantic Spaces with Swarming Agents....Pages 428-429
Mesh-Partitioning with the Multiple Ant-Colony Algorithm....Pages 430-431
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