Conference Program
The conference will take place from September
8 to September 10 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Click here for a map of room locations.
Wednesday, 8th September 2010
08:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Introductory Remarks
09:30-10:30 Invited Talk:
Locating and tracking multiple optima using particle swarm optimization by Andries Engelbrecht
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 1: Oral Presentations
- 11:00 Antbots: A feasible visual emulation of pheromone trails for swarm robots
Ralf Mayet, Jonathan Roberz, Thomas Schmickl, and Karl Crailsheim - 11:30 Self-organized Task Partitioning in a Swarm of Robots
Marco Frison, Nam-Luc Tran, Nadir Baiboun, Arne Brutschy, Giovanni Pini, Andrea Roli, Marco Dorigo, and Mauro Birattari - 12:00 A Robotic Validation of the Attractive Field Model: An Inter-Disciplinary Model of Self-Regulatory Social Systems
Md Omar Faruque Sarker and Torbjørn S. Dahl
12:30-14:00 Free time for lunch
14:00-15:00 Session 2: Oral Presentations
- 14:00 Slime Mold Inspired Path Formation Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Ke Li, Kyle Thomas, Claudio Torres, Louis Rossi, and Chien-Chung Shen - 14:30 Positional Communication and Private Information in Honeybee Foraging Models
Peter Bailis, Radhika Nagpal, and Justin Werfel
15:00-16:00 Session 3: Preview Highlights
- A Cooperative Network Game Efficiently Solved via an Ant Colony Optimization Approach
Pablo Romero, Franco Robledo, Pablo Rodríguez-Bocca, Darío Padula, and María Elisa Bertinat - A Modified Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for the Best Low Multilinear Rank Approximation of Higher-Order Tensors
Pierre B. Borckmans, Mariya Ishteva, and Pierre-Antoine Absil - A Thermodynamic Approach to the Analysis of Multi-Robot Cooperative Localization Under Independent Errors
Yotam Elor and Alfred M. Bruckstein - ACOPHY: A simple and general Ant Colony Optimization approach for phylogenetic reconstruction
Huy Q. Dinh, Bui Quang Minh, Hoang Xuan Huan, and Arndt von Haeseler - ACS searching for D 4t -Hadamard matrices
Víctor Álvarez, José Andrés Armario, María Dolores Frau, Félix Gudiel, Belén Güemes, Elena Martín, and Amparo Osuna - An alternative ACO_R algorithm for continuous optimization problems
Guillermo Leguizamón and Carlos A. Coello Coello - An Efficient Optimization Method for Revealing Local Optima of Projection Pursuit Indices
Souad Larabi Marie-Sainte, Alain Berro, and Anne Ruiz-Gazen - Ant based semi-supervised classification
Anindya Halder, Susmita Ghosh, and Ashish Ghosh - Ant Colony Extended: Search in solution spaces with a countably infinite number of solutions.
Jose B. Escario, Juan F. Jimenez, and Jose M. Giron-Sierra - Automatic Configuration of Multi-Objective ACO algorithms
Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle - Automatic Generation of Optimised Working Time Models in Personnel Planning
Volker Nissen and Maik Günther - Automatic Parameter Configuration of Particle Swarm Optimization by Classification of Function Features
Tjorben Bogon, Georgios Poursanidis, Andreas D. Lattner, and Ingo J. Timm - Autonomous Multi-Agent Cycle Based Patrolling
Yotam Elor and Alfred M. Bruckstein - Bee-Sensor: A Step Towards Meta-Routing Strategies in Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks
Israr Ullah, Muhammad Saleem, and Muddassar Farooq - Constructing Low-cost Swarm Robots that March in Column Formation
Asuki Kouno, Shigeru Takano, and Einoshin Suzuki - A Deterministic Metaheuristic Approach Using “Logistic Ants” for Combinatorial Optimization
Rodolphe Charrier, Christine Bourjot, and Francois Charpillet - Early-Stage Diagnosis of Endogenous Diseases by Swarms of Nanobots: An Applicative Scenario
Paolo Amato, Massimo Masserini, Giancarlo Mauri, and Gianfranco Cerofolini - EDA-PSO: a hybrid paradigm combining Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and Particle Swarm optimization
Endika Bengoetxea and Pedro Larrañaga - Effect of Particle Initialization on the Performance of Particle Swarm Niching Algorithms
Isabella Schoeman and Andries Engelbrecht - Emergent Flocking with Low-End Swarm Robots
Christoph Moeslinger, Thomas Schmickl, and Karl Crailsheim - Exploiting Loose Horizontal Coupling in Evolutionary
Swarm Robotics
Jennifer Owen, Susan Stepney, Jonathan Timmis, and Alan F.T. Winfield - Extensions to the Ant-Miner Classification Rule Discovery Algorithm
Khalid M. Salama and Ashraf M. Abdelbar - Formal Verification of Probabilistic Robot Swarm Behaviours
Savas Konur, Clare Dixon, and Michael Fisher
16:00-18:00 Poster Session: Papers and previews presented in Sessions 1, 2, and 3
18:15 Meeting at conference location - We walk to the dinner together
19:00 Conference dinner - program in pdf
Thursday, 9th September 2010
09:30-10:30 Invited Talk:
Emergent coordination in fish schools and human crowds by Guy Theraulaz
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 4: Oral Presentations
- 11:00 Theoretical Properties of Two ACO Approaches for the Traveling Salesman Problem
Timo Kötzing, Frank Neumann, Heiko Röglin, and Carsten Witt - 11:30 Solving the Multi-dimensional Multi-choice Knapsack Problem with the help of Ants
Shahrear Iqbal, Md Faizul Bari, and M. Sohel Rahman - 12:00 Ant Colony Optimisation for Ligand Docking
Oliver Korb and Jason Cole
12:30-14:00 Free time for lunch
14:00-15:00 Session 5: Oral Presentations
- 14:00 Rank based Particle Swarm Optimization
Affan Khan, Muhammad Sadeequllah, Riaz-ul-Hasnain, and Azzam-ul-Asar - 14:30 Multi-Swarm Optimization for Dynamic
Combinatorial Problems: A case study on Dynamic Vehicle Routing
Problem
Mostepha R. Khouadjia, Enrique Alba, Laetitia Jourdan, and El-Ghazali Talbi
15:00-16:00 Session 6: Preview Highlights
- Heterogeneous Particle Swarm Optimization
Andreis P. Engelbrecht - How Ant Systems can help in Management of pH for Industrial Wastewater Discharges
Marta Verdaguer, Jordi Giró, Narcís Clara, and Manel Poch - Hybrid Metaheuristic Combining Ant Colony Optimization and H-method
Leonid Hulianytskyi and Sergii Sirenko - Increasing Individual Density Reduces Extra-variance in Swarm Intelligence
Ryusuke Fujisawa, Shigeto Dobata, and Fumitoshi Matsuno - Inverse Modeling in Geoenvironmental Engineering Using a Novel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm
Tadikonda Venkata Bharat and Jitendra Sharma - A Model Based Ant Colony Design for the Protein Engineering Problems
Matteo Borrotti, Davide De Lucrezia, Giovanni Minervini, and Irene Poli - Modern Continuous Optimization Algorithms for Tuning Real
and Integer Algorithm Parameters
Zhi Yuan, Marco A. Montes de Oca, Mauro Birattari, and Thomas Stuetzle - Motif Finding Using Ant Colony Optimization
Salim Bouamama, Abdellah Boukerram, and Amer F. Al-Badarneh - Multi-Agent Deployment on a Ring Graph
Yotam Elor and Alfred M. Bruckstein - Multiple Ant Colony System for Substructure Discovery
Oscar Cordón, Arnaud Quirin, and Rocío Romero-Zali - Off-line vs. On-line tuning: A study on Max-Min Ant System for the TSP
Paola Pellegrini, Thomas Stützle, and Mauro Birattari - On Possible Connections between Ant Algorithms and Random Matrix Theory
Carlo Mastroianni - Opportunistic Ant-Based Path Management for Wireless Mesh Networks
Laurent Paquereau and Bjarne E. Helvik - Particle Swarm Optimization of Bollinger Bands
Matthew Butler and Dimitar Kazakov - Parallel Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm on a Multi-core Processor
Shigeyoshi Tsutsui and Noriyuki Fujimoto - Particle Swarm Optimization in High Dimensional Spaces
Juan L. Fernández-Martínez, Tapan Mukerji, and Esperanza García-Gonzalo - Protein Structure Prediction in Lattice Models with Particle Swarm Optimization
Andrei Bautu and Henri Luchian - Short and Robust Communication Paths in Dynamic Wireless Networks
Yoann Pigné and Frédéric Guinand - Soft variable fixing in path relinking: An application to ACO codes
Antonio Bolufé Röhler, Marco A. Boschetti, and Vittorio Maniezzo - The Complexity of Grid Coverage by Swarm Robotics
Yaniv Altshuler and Alfred M. Bruckstein - The ACO Encoding
Alberto Moraglio, Fernando E. B. Otero, and Colin G. Johnson - The Design of an Active Structural Vibration Reduction System Using a Modified Particle Swarm Optimization
Adam Schmidt - Training Randomly Connected, Recurrent Artificial Neural Networks Using PSO
Vytautas Jancauskas
16:00-18:30 Poster Session: Papers and previews presented in Sessions 4, 5, and 6
Friday, 10th September 2010
09:00-10:00 Invited Talk:
Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Digital Hormones, and Swarm Morphallaxis by Wei-Min Shen
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Special session on Morphogenetic
Engineering: Oral Presentations
Special session chairs: René Doursat and Hiroki Sayama
- 10:30 Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications
Wenguo Liu and Alan F.T. Winfield - 11:00 Biologically Realistic Primitives for Engineered Morphogenesis
Justin Werfel - 11:30 Functional Blueprints: An Approach to Modularity in Grown Systems
Jacob Beal
12:00-13:30 Free time for lunch
13:30-14:30 Special session on Swarmanoid: Oral
Presentations
Special session chair: Dario Floreano
- 13:30 Evolution of self-organized path formation in a swarm of robots
Valerio Sperati, Vito Trianni, and Stefano Nolfi - 14:00 Opinion Dynamics for Decentralized Decision-Making in a Robot Swarm
Marco A. Montes de Oca, Eliseo Ferrante, Nithin Mathews, Mauro Birattari, and Marco Dorigo
14:30-14:45 Special session on Morphogenetic
Engineering: Preview Highlights
Special session chairs: René Doursat and Hiroki Sayama
- Evaluating the Robustness of Activator-Inhibitor Models for Cluster Head Computation
Lidia Yamamoto and Daniele Miorandi - Genetic Encoding of Robot Metamorphosis: How to Evolve a Glider with a Genetic Regulatory Network
Anne C. van Rossum - A Graph-based Developmental Swarm
Representation and Algorithm
Sebastian von Mammen, David Phillips, Timothy Davison, and Christian Jacob
14:45-15:00 Special session on Swarmanoid: Preview
Highlights
Special session chair: Dario Floreano
- Coordinating Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Among Homogeneous Sub-Swarms
Carlo Pinciroli, Rehan O’Grady, Anders L. Christensen, and Marco Dorigo - Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication
Nithin Mathews, Anders L. Christensen, Rehan O’Grady, and Marco Dorigo - Energy Efficient Swarm Deployment for search in
Unknown Environments
Timothy Stirling and Dario Floreano - Look out!: Socially-Mediated Obstacle Avoidance in Collective Transport
Eliseo Ferrante, Manuele Brambilla, Mauro Birattari, and Marco Dorigo - Mobile stigmergic markers for navigation in a heterogeneous robotic swarm
Frederick Ducatelle, Gianni Di Caro, Alexander Förster, and Luca M. Gambardella
15:00-16:30 Poster Session: Papers and previews presented in the special sessions - Coffee served
16:30 End
Note: presentations in grey will not be given.