ANTS 2012 - Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
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ANTS 2012 Conference Committee

General Chair:

Marco DORIGO IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Technical Program Chairs:

Christian BLUM ALBCOM, LSI, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Andries ENGELBRECHT University of Pretoria, South Africa
Roderich GROß Sheffield University, UK

Publication Chair:

Anders Lyhne CHRISTENSEN, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal

Organization Chairs:

Mauro BIRATTARI IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Thomas STÜTZLE IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Local Arrangements:

Arne BRUTSCHY IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Andreagiovanni REINA IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Program Committee:

Andy ADAMATZKY, University of the West of England, UK
Abbas AHMADI, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
Daniel ANGUS, University of Queensland, Australia
Ronald ARKIN, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jacob BEAL, BBN Technologies, USA
Gerardo BENI, Univeristy of California, USA
Spring BERMAN, Harvard University, USA
Tim BLACKWELL, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Maria José BLESA AGUILERA, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Alfred BRUCKSTEIN, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Fernando BUARQUE, Universidade de Pernambuco, Brasil
Leticia CAGNINA, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
Emilio CAMPANA, Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, Italy
Marco CHIARANDINI, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
David Johan CHRISTENSEN, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Maurice CLERC, Independent Consultant, France
Carlos COELLO COELLO, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Oscar CORDON, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Iain COUZIN, Princeton University, USA
Sanjoy DAS, Kansas State University, USA
Kusum DEEP, Indian Institute Of Technology Roorkee, India
Gianni DI CARO, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Switzerland
Luca DI GASPERO, University of Udine, Italy
Karl DOERNER, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Leandro DOS SANTOS COELHO, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana and Federal University of Parana, Brasil
Haibin DUAN, Beihang University, China
Frederick DUCATELLE, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Switzerland
Mohammed EL-ABD, American University in Kuwait, Kuwait
Susana ESQUIVEL, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
Jonathan FIELDSEND, Exeter University, UK
Luca Maria GAMBARDELLA, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Switzerland
Simon GARNIER, Princeton University, USA
Veysel GAZI, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Turkey
Deborah GORDON, Stanford University, USA
Frédéric GUINAND, Université du Havre, France
Walter GUTJAHR, Universität Wien, Austria
Saman HALGAMUGE, University of Melbourne, Australia
Heiko HAMANN, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
Julia HANDL, University of Manchester, UK
Richard HARTL, Universität Wien, Austria
Poul HEEGAARD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Marde HELBIG, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
Ani HSIEH, Drexel University, USA
Thomas JANSEN, University College Cork, Ireland
Mark JELASITY, Szegedi Tudomanyegyete, Hungary
Yaochu JIN, University of Surrey, UK
Serge KERNBACH, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Joshua KNOWLES, University of Manchester, UK
Oliver KORB, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, UK
Xiaodong LI , RMIT University, Australia
Manuel LOPEZ-IBANEZ, IRIDIA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Patricia LUTU, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Kevin LYNCH, Northwestern University , USA
Katherine MALAN, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Vittorio MANIEZZO, Università di Bologna, Italy
Yannis MARINAKIS, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Franco MASCIA, IRIDIA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Bernd MEYER, Monash University, Australia
Martin MIDDENDORF, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Francesco MONDADA, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Nicolas MONMARCHÉ, Université de Tours, France
Roberto MONTEMANNI, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Switzerland
Marco A. MONTES DE OCA, University of Delaware, USA
Sanaz MOSTAGHIM, AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Frank NEUMANN, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Giuseppe NICOSIA, University of Catania, Italy
Ann NOWÉ, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Beatrice OMBUKI-BERNMAN, Brock University, Canada
Mahamed OMRAN, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
Rafael Stubs PARPINELLI, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Kostantinos PARSOPOULOS, University of Ioannina, Greece
Van Dyke PARUNAK, Vector Research Center, Jacobs Technology, USA
Kevin PASSINO, The Ohio State University, USA
Paola PELLEGRINI, French institute of science and technology for transport, development and networks, France
Jorge PENA, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Günther RAIDL, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Marc REIMANN, University of Graz, Austria
Dustin REISHUS, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Aristides REQUICHA, University of Southern California, USA
Andrea ROLI, Università di Bologna, Italy
Erol SAHIN, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Michael SAMPELS, IRIDIA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Thomas SCHMICKL, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
Kevin SEPPI, Brigham Young University, USA
Wei-Min SHEN, University of Southern California, USA
Jurij SILC, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Christine SOLNON, Université Claude Bernard, France
Kasper STØY, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Ponnuthurai SUGANTHAN, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Guy THERAULAZ, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Jon TIMMIS, University of York, UK
Kohji TOMITA, AIST, Japan
Vito TRIANNI, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Italy
Elio TUCI, Aberystwyth University, UK
Willem VAN HEERDEN, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Richard T. VAUGHAN, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Mario VENTRESCA, University of Toronto, Canada
Michael VRAHATIS, University of Patras, Greece
Alan WINFIELD, University of the West of England, UK
Carsten WITT, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Xiao-Feng XIE, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Daniela ZAHARIE, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Ender ÖZCAN, University of Nottingham, UK