Swarm Intelligence: 11th International Conference, ANTS 2018, Rome, Italy, October 29–31, 2018, Proceedings

Front Matter ....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 A Study on Force-Based Collaboration in Flying Swarms  (Chiara Gabellieri, Marco Tognon, Lucia Pallottino, Antonio Franchi)....Pages 3-15
 Automatic Design of Communication-Based Behaviors for Robot Swarms  (Ken Hasselmann, Frédéric Robert, Mauro Birattari)....Pages 16-29
 Behavior Trees as a Control Architecture in the Automatic Modular Design of Robot Swarms  (Jonas Kuckling, Antoine Ligot, Darko Bozhinoski, Mauro Birattari)....Pages 30-43
 Guidance of Swarms with Agents Having Bearing Only and Limited Visibility Sensors  (Rotem Manor, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 44-56
 Hybrid Control of Swarms for Resource Selection  (Marco Trabattoni, Gabriele Valentini, Marco Dorigo)....Pages 57-70
 Local Communication Protocols for Learning Complex Swarm Behaviors with Deep Reinforcement Learning  (Maximilian Hüttenrauch, Adrian Šošić, Gerhard Neumann)....Pages 71-83
 Morphogenesis as a Collective Decision of Agents Competing for Limited Resource: A Plants Approach  (Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl)....Pages 84-96
 Negative Updating Combined with Opinion Pooling in the Best-of-n Problem in Swarm Robotics  (Chanelle Lee, Jonathan Lawry, Alan Winfield)....Pages 97-108
 On Mimicking the Effects of the Reality Gap with Simulation-Only Experiments  (Antoine Ligot, Mauro Birattari)....Pages 109-122
 Optimization of Swarm Behavior Assisted by an Automatic Local Proof for a Pattern Formation Task  (Mario Coppola, Guido C. H. E. de Croon)....Pages 123-134
 Quality-Sensitive Foraging by a Robot Swarm Through Virtual Pheromone Trails  (Anna Font Llenas, Mohamed S. Talamali, Xu Xu, James A. R. Marshall, Andreagiovanni Reina)....Pages 135-149
 Search in a Maze-Like Environment with Ant Algorithms: Complexity, Size and Energy Study  (Zainab Husain, Dymitr Ruta, Fabrice Saffre, Yousof Al-Hammadi, Abdel F. Isakovic)....Pages 150-162
 Self-adaptive Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization for Dynamic Environments  (Gary Pamparà, Andries P. Engelbrecht)....Pages 163-175
 Simulating Kilobots Within ARGoS: Models and Experimental Validation  (Carlo Pinciroli, Mohamed S. Talamali, Andreagiovanni Reina, James A. R. Marshall, Vito Trianni)....Pages 176-187
 Simulating Multi-robot Construction in ARGoS  (Michael Allwright, Navneet Bhalla, Carlo Pinciroli, Marco Dorigo)....Pages 188-200
 Stability Analysis of the Multi-objective Multi-guided Particle Swarm Optimizer  (Christopher W. Cleghorn, Christiaan Scheepers, Andries P. Engelbrecht)....Pages 201-212
 Swarm Attack: A Self-organized Model to Recover from Malicious Communication Manipulation in a Swarm of Simple Simulated Agents  (Giuseppe Primiero, Elio Tuci, Jacopo Tagliabue, Eliseo Ferrante)....Pages 213-224
 Task-Agnostic Evolution of Diverse Repertoires of Swarm Behaviours  (Jorge Gomes, Anders Lyhne Christensen)....Pages 225-238
 The Best-of-n Problem with Dynamic Site Qualities: Achieving Adaptability with Stubborn Individuals  (Judhi Prasetyo, Giulia De Masi, Pallavi Ranjan, Eliseo Ferrante)....Pages 239-251
 The Impact of Interaction Models on the Coherence of Collective Decision-Making: A Case Study with Simulated Locusts  (Yara Khaluf, Ilja Rausch, Pieter Simoens)....Pages 252-263
 The Importance of Component-Wise Stochasticity in Particle Swarm Optimization  (Elre T. Oldewage, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Christopher W. Cleghorn)....Pages 264-276
 The Importance of Information Flow Regulation in Preferentially Foraging Robot Swarms  (Lenka Pitonakova, Richard Crowder, Seth Bullock)....Pages 277-289
 The Role of Largest Connected Components in Collective Motion  (Heiko Hamann)....Pages 290-301
 Why the Intelligent Water Drops Cannot Be Considered as a Novel Algorithm  (Christian Leonardo Camacho-Villalón, Marco Dorigo, Thomas Stützle)....Pages 302-314
Front Matter ....Pages 315-315
 A Cooperative Opposite-Inspired Learning Strategy for Ant-Based Algorithms  (Nicolás Rojas-Morales, María-Cristina Riff, Carlos A. Coello Coello, Elizabeth Montero)....Pages 317-324
 A Solution for the Team Selection Problem Using ACO  (Lázaro Lugo, Marilyn Bello, Ann Nowe, Rafael Bello)....Pages 325-332
 Boundary Constraint Handling Techniques for Particle Swarm Optimization in High Dimensional Problem Spaces  (Elre T. Oldewage, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Christopher W. Cleghorn)....Pages 333-341
 Does the ACO\(\mathbb {_R}\) Algorithm Benefit from the Use of Crossover?  (Ashraf M. Abdelbar, Khalid M. Salama)....Pages 342-350
 Embodied Evolution of Self-organised Aggregation by Cultural Propagation  (Nicolas Cambier, Vincent Frémont, Vito Trianni, Eliseo Ferrante)....Pages 351-359
 Experimental Evaluation of ACO for Continuous Domains to Solve Function Optimization Problems  (Ryouei Takahashi, Yukihiro Nakamura, Toshihide Ibaraki)....Pages 360-367
 Gaussian-Valued Particle Swarm Optimization  (Kyle Robert Harrison, Beatrice M. Ombuki-Berman, Andries P. Engelbrecht)....Pages 368-377
 Individual Activity Level and Mobility Patterns of Ants Within Nest Site  (Kazutaka Shoji)....Pages 378-384
 Learning Based Leadership in Swarm Navigation  (Ovunc Tuzel, Gilberto Marcon dos Santos, Chloë Fleming, Julie A. Adams)....Pages 385-394
 Maintaining Diversity in Robot Swarms with Distributed Embodied Evolution  (Iñaki Fernández Pérez, Amine Boumaza, François Charpillet)....Pages 395-402
 On Steering Swarms  (Ariel Barel, Rotem Manor, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 403-410
 Vector Field Benchmark for Collective Search in Unknown Dynamic Environments  (Palina Bartashevich, Welf Knors, Sanaz Mostaghim)....Pages 411-419
Back Matter ....Pages 421-438