Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence: 6th International Conference, ANTS 2008, Brussels, Belgium, September 22-24, 2008. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
A Combined Ant Colony and Differential Evolution Feature Selection Algorithm....Pages 1-12
An Improved ACO Based Plug-in to Enhance the Interpretability of Fuzzy Rule Bases with Exceptions....Pages 13-24
Ant Colony Optimization for Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 25-36
Ant Colony Optimization for Genome-Wide Genetic Analysis....Pages 37-47
 c Ant-Miner: An Ant Colony Classification Algorithm to Cope with Continuous Attributes....Pages 48-59
Finding Minimum Spanning/Distances Trees by Using River Formation Dynamics....Pages 60-71
Gathering Multiple Robotic Agents with Crude Distance Sensing Capabilities....Pages 72-83
Integration of ACO in a Constraint Programming Language....Pages 84-95
Learning from House-Hunting Ants: Collective Decision-Making in Organic Computing Systems....Pages 96-107
Modeling Phase Transition in Self-organized Mobile Robot Flocks....Pages 108-119
Molecular Structure Elucidation Using Ant Colony Optimization: A Preliminary Study....Pages 120-131
Rigorous Analyses for the Combination of Ant Colony Optimization and Local Search....Pages 132-143
Simple Dynamic Particle Swarms without Velocity....Pages 144-154
Swarming in a Virtual World: A PSO Approach to Virtual Camera Composition....Pages 155-166
The Binary Bridge Selection Problem: Stochastic Approximations and the Convergence of a Learning Algorithm....Pages 167-178
Two-Level ACO for Haplotype Inference Under Pure Parsimony....Pages 179-190
What Hides in Dimension X? A Quest for Visualizing Particle Swarms....Pages 191-202
A Dynamic Swarm for Visual Location Tracking....Pages 203-210
A Simulation Study of Routing Performance in Realistic Urban Scenarios for MANETs....Pages 211-218
ACO-Based Scheduling of Parallel Batch Processing Machines with Incompatible Job Families to Minimize Total Weighted Tardiness....Pages 219-226
Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 227-234
Ant Based Heuristics for the Capacitated Fixed Charge Location Problem....Pages 235-242
Ant Colony Optimization and the Single Round Robin Maximum Value Problem....Pages 243-250
Artificial Ants to Extract Leaf Outlines and Primary Venation Patterns....Pages 251-258
Autonomous Reconfiguration in a Self-assembling Multi-robot System....Pages 259-266
Beanbag Robotics: Robotic Swarms with 1-DoF Units....Pages 267-274
BlåtAnt: Bounding Networks’ Diameter with a Collaborative Distributed Algorithm....Pages 275-282
Dependency by Concentration of Pheromone Trail for Multiple Robots....Pages 283-290
Dissemination of Information with Fair Load Distribution in Self-organizing Grids....Pages 291-298
Emergent Sorting in Networks of Router Agents....Pages 299-306
Enhancing the Cooperative Transport of Multiple Objects....Pages 307-314
Formal Modeling of BeeAdHoc : A Bio-inspired Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocol....Pages 315-322
Incorporating Heuristics in a Swarm Intelligence Framework for Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Gene Expression Time Series....Pages 323-330
Incorporating Preferences to a Multi-objective Ant Colony Algorithm for Time and Space Assembly Line Balancing....Pages 331-338
KANTS: Artifical Ant System for Classification....Pages 339-346
Lattice Formation in Space for a Swarm of Pico Satellites....Pages 347-354
Merging Groups for the Exploration of Complex State Spaces in the CPSO Approach....Pages 355-362
Parallel Ant Colony Optimization for the Quadratic Assignment Problems with Symmetric Multi Processing....Pages 363-370
Social Odometry in Populations of Autonomous Robots....Pages 371-378
The Architecture of Ant-Based Clustering to Improve Topographic Mapping....Pages 379-386
The Small World of Pheromone Trails....Pages 387-394
A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Multiuser Scheduling in HSDPA....Pages 395-396
AntLib v1.0: A Generic C++ Framework for Ant Colony Optimization....Pages 397-398
Applying a Distributed Swarm-Based Algorithm to Solve Instances of the RCPSP....Pages 399-400
bicACO: An Ant Colony Inspired Biclustering Algorithm....Pages 401-402
Dynamic Routing and Travel Time Prediction with Ant Based Control....Pages 403-404
Network Formation Using Ant Colony Optimization....Pages 405-406
On the Stability and the Parameters of Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 407-408
Regional Traffic Assignment by ACO....Pages 409-410
SwarmClass: A Novel Data Clustering Approach by a Hybridization of an Ant Colony with Flying Insects....Pages 411-412
The Differential Ant-Stigmergy Algorithm for Large Scale Real-Parameter Optimization....Pages 413-414
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