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Conference Program
The conference will take place from September
12 to September 14 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Click here for a map of room locations.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
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| 8:00 |
Registration |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Welcome |
| 09:30-10:30 |
Invited Talk:
Ants, Bees and Brains
by Prof. Nigel R. Franks
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Session 1: Oral Presentations
Chair: Vito Trianni
- 11:00 - ABC-Miner: an Ant-based Bayesian Classification Algorithm
Khalid Salama, Alex Freitas
- 11:30 - Multi-armed Bandit Formulation of the Task Partitioning Problem in Swarm Robotics
Giovanni Pini, Arne Brutschy, Gianpiero Francesca, Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari
- 12:00 - Measuring Diversity in the Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimizer
Adiel Ismail, Andries P. Engelbrecht
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| 12:30-14:45 |
Free time for lunch |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Session 2: Oral Presentations
Chair: Roderich Gross
- 14:45 - Task Partitioning via Ant Colony Optimization for Distributed Assembly
James Worcester, M. Ani Hsieh
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| 15:15-16:00 |
Session 3: Preview Highlights
- Swarm Interpolation Using an Approximate Chebyshev Distribution
Joshua Kirby, Marco A. Montes de Oca, Steven Senger, Louis F. Rossi, Chien-Chung Shen
- A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for the Open Vehicle Routing Problem
Yannis Marinakis, Magdalene Marinaki
- Analysis of Ant-Based Routing with Wireless Medium Access Control
Rui Fang, Zequn Huang, Louis F. Rossi, Chien-Chung Shen
- Probabilistic Stochastic Diffusion Search
Mahamed Omran, Ayed Salman
- Fuzzy-Based Aggregation with a Mobile Robot Swarm
Farshad Arvin, Ali Emre Turgut, Shigang Yue
- A Self-adaptive Heterogeneous PSO Inspired by Ants
Filipe Vieira Nepomuceno, Andries P. Engelbrecht
- Clustering Moodle Data via Ant Colony Optimization
Päivi Hanne-Marie Suomalainen
- Self-organized Clustering of Square Objects by Multiple Robots
Yong Song, Jung-Hwan Kim, Dylan Shell
- Continuous Trait-Based Particle Swarm Optimisation (CTB-PSO)
Ed Keedwell, Mark Morley, Darren Croft
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| 16:00-18:00 |
Poster Session: Papers and previews presented in Sessions 1, 2, and 3 (coffee served at 16:30) |
| 18:15 |
Meeting at conference location - We walk to the dinner together |
| 19:00 |
Conference dinner |
Thursday, September 13, 2012
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| 09:30-10:30 |
Invited Talk:
Architectures, abstractions, and algorithms for large teams of robots
by Prof. Vijay Kumar
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Session 4: Oral Presentations
Chair: Rehan O'Grady
- 11:00 - A Particle Swarm Embedding Algorithm for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction
Oliver Kramer
- 11:30 - Self-reconfigurable Modular e-pucks
Lachlan Murray, Jon Timmis, Andy Tyrrell
- 12:00 - Automatic Generation of Multi-objective ACO Algorithms for the Bi-objective Knapsack
Leonardo César Teonácio Bezerra, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Thomas Stützle
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| 12:30-14:30 |
Free time for lunch |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Session 5: Oral Presentations
Chair: Manuel López-Ibáñez
- 14:30 - Introducing Novelty Search in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics
Jorge Gomes, Paulo Urbano, Anders Lyhne Christensen
- 15:00 - The Self-adaptive Comprehensive Learning Particle Swarm Optimizer
Adiel Ismail, Andries P. Engelbrecht
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Session 6: Preview Highlights
- AcoSeeD: an Ant Colony Optimization for Finding Optimal Spaced Seeds in Biological Sequence Search
Dong Do Duc, Dinh Quang Huy, Dang Thanh Hai, Hoang Xuan Huan
- Collision-Induced "Priority Rule" Governs Efficiency of Pheromone-Communicating Swarm Robots
Ryusuke Fujisawa, Shigeto Dobata, Yuuta Sasaki, Riku Takisawa, Fumitoshi Matsuno
- Exploring Different Functions for Heuristics, Discretization, and Rule Quality Evaluation in Ant-Miner
Khalid Salama, Fernando Otero
- Dynamic Load Balancing Inspired by Cemetery Formation in Ant Colonies
Ronald Klazar, Andries P. Engelbrecht
- Mobbing Behavior and Deceit and its role in Bio-inspired Autonomous Robotic Agents
Justin Eric Davis, Ronald C. Arkin
- Improving Peer Review with ACORN: ACO Algorithm for Reviewer's Network
Mark Christopher Flynn, Melanie Moses
- Performance of Bacterial Foraging Optimization in Dynamic Environments
Jade Zoë Abbott, Andries P. Engelbrecht
- Self-reproduction versus Transition Rules in Ant Colonies for Medical Volume Segmentation
Robert Haase, Hans-Joachim Böhme, Rosalind Perrin, Klaus Zöphel, Nasreddin Abolmaali
- Maturity of the Particle Swarm as a Metric for Measuring the Particle Swarm Intelligence
Zdenka Winklerová
- A "Thermodynamic" Approach to Multi-Robot Cooperative Localization with Noisy Sensors
Yotam Elor, Alfred Bruckstein
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| 16:00-18:00 |
Poster Session: Papers and previews presented in Sessions 4, 5, and 6 (coffee served at 16:30) |
Friday, September 14, 2012
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| 09:30-10:30 |
Invited Talk:
Towards Simulating the Foundations of Society
by Prof. Dirk Helbing
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Session 7: Oral Presentations
Chair: Michele Pace
- 11:00 - Hybrid Algorithms for the Minimium-weight Rooted Arborescence Problem
Sergi Mateo, Christian Blum, Pascal Fua, Engin Türetgen
- 11:30 - Analysing Robot Swarm Decision-making with Bio-PEPA
Mieke Massink, Manuele Brambilla, Diego Latella, Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari
- 12:00 - Scalability Study of Particle Swarm Optimizers in Dynamic Environments
Barend Jacobus Leonard, Andries P. Engelbrecht
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| 12:30-14:30 |
Free time for lunch |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Session 8: Oral Presentations
Chair: Christian Blum
- 14:30 - Towards Swarm Calculus: Universal Properties of Swarm Performance and Collective Decisions
Heiko Hamann
- 15:00 - Improving the cAnt-MinerPB Classification Algorithm
Matthew Medland, Fernando E. B. Otero, Alex A. Freitas
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Session 9: Preview Highlights
- Using MOPSO to Solve Multiobjective Bilevel Linear Problems
Maria João Alves
- Formica ex Machina: Ant Swarm Foraging From Physical to Virtual and Back Again
Joshua Peter Hecker, Kenneth Letendre, Karl Stolleis, Daniel Washington, Melanie E. Moses
- Multi-objective Firefly Algorithm for Energy Optimization in Grid Environments
María Arsuaga-Ríos, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez
- Learning Finite-state Machines with Ant Colony Optimization
Daniil Chivilikhin, Vladimir Ulyantsev
- Piecewise Linear Approximation of unknown n-Dimensional Parametric Curves using Particle Swarms
Christopher Wesley Cleghorn, Andries P. Engelbrecht
- Ant-based Approaches for Solving Autocorrelation Problems
Ilias S. Kotsireas, Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, Grigorios S. Piperagkas, Michael N. Vrahatis
- Particle Swarm Optimization with Random Sampling in Variable Neighbourhoods for solving Global Minimization Problems
Gonzalo Nápoles, Isel Grau
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| 16:00-18:00 |
Poster Session: Papers and previews presented in Sessions 7, 8, and 9 (coffee served at 16:30) |
| 18:00-18:30 |
Award Ceremony |
| 18:30 |
End and Goodbye Drink |
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