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Conference Program
The conference will take place from September
10 to September 12 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Click here for a map of room locations.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
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| 8:30-16:00 |
Registration in room C.2.223 (second floor, conference building) |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Welcome |
| 09:30-10:30 |
Invited Talk:
All Roads Lead to the Mound
by Simon Garnier
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Session 1: Oral Presentations
Chair: Rehan O’Grady
- 11:00 - Evolutionary Swarm Robotics: Genetic Diversity, Task-Allocation and Task-Switching
Elio Tuci
- 11:30 - Diversity Rate of Change Measurement for Particle Swarm Optimisers
Phlippie Bosman, Andries P. Engelbrecht
- 12:00 - SRoCS: Leveraging Stigmergy on a Multi-robot Construction Platform for Unknown Environments
Michael Allwright, Navneet Bhalla, Haithan El-faham, Anthony Antoun, Carlo Pinciroli, Marco Dorigo
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Free time for lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Session 2: Oral Presentations
Chair: Carlo Pinciroli
- 14:00 - Swarm in a Fly Bottle: Feedback-Based Analysis of Self-Organizing Temporary Lock-Ins
Heiko Hamann, Gabriele Valentini
- 14:30 - A Novel Ant Colony Algorithm for Building Neural Network Topologies
Khalid Salama, Ashraf M. Abdelbar
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| 15:00-16:00 |
Invited Talk:
Why is reciprocal cooperation so rare in animals?
by Jean-Baptiste André
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| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
16:30-18:30 |
Special Session: H2SWARM - Presentations about the project carried out within the ESF EuroBioSAS programme (http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=6400)
Chair: Vito Trianni
- 16:30 - Evolution of Cooperative Behaviours in Robotic Swarms
Tomassino Ferrauto
- 17:00 - Collective Decisions and Load Balancing for Multiple Resource Exploitation
Roman Miletitch
- 17:30 - A Decision-Theoretic Formulation of Autonomous Construction by Mobile Robots
Stefan Witwicki
- 18:00 - Evolution of Division of Labour in Swarms of Robots
Tom Wenseleers
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| 19:00 |
Meeting at conference location - We walk to the dinner together |
| 19:30 |
Conference dinner |
Thursday, September 11, 2014
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| 09:30-10:30 |
Invited Talk:
Critical Review of Modern Bio-Inspired Optimization Methods
by Prof. Günter Rudolph
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Session 3: Oral Presentations
Chair: Luca Gambardella
- 11:00 - Towards a Cognitive Design Pattern for Collective Decision-Making
Andreagiovanni Reina, Marco Dorigo, Vito Trianni
- 11:30 - Angle Modulated Particle Swarm Variants
Barend J. Leonard, Andries P. Engelbrecht
- 12:00 - Ant Colony Optimization on a Budget of 1000
Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Thomas Stützle
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| 12:30-14:30 |
Free time for lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 |
Session 4: Oral Presentations
Chair: Christian Blum
- 14:30 - MACOC: A Medoid-Based ACO Clustering Algorithm
Héctor D. Menéndez, Fernando E. B. Otero, David Camacho
- 15:00 - Particle Swarm Convergence: Standardized Analysis and Topological Influence
Christopher W. Cleghorn, Andries P. Engelbrecht
- 15:30 - Application of Supervisory Control Theory to Swarms of e-puck and Kilobot Robots
Yuri K. Lopes, André B. Leal, Tony J. Dodd, Roderich Groβ
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| 16:00-16:30 |
Session 5: Preview Highlights
Chair: Franco Mascia
- A Novel Competitive Quantum-Behaviour Evolutionary Multi-Swarm Optimizer Algorithm Based on CUDA Architecture Applied to Constrained Engineering Design
Daniel Leal Souza, Otávio Noura Teixeira, Dionne Cavalcante Monteiro, Roberto Célio Limão de Oliveira, Marco Antônio Florenzano Mollinetti
- Cooperative Object Recognition: Behaviours of a Artificially Evolved Swarm
David King, Philip Breedon
- Emergent Diagnosis from a Collective of Radiologists: Algorithmic versus Social Consensus Strategies
Daniel W. Palmer, David W. Piraino, Nancy A. Obuchowski, Jennifer A. Bullen
- A Low-cost Real-time Tracking Infrastructure for Ground-based Robot Swarms
Alan G. Millard, James A. Hilder, Jon Timmis, Alan F. T. Winfield
- Foraging Agent Swarm Optimization with Applications in Data Clustering
Kevin M. Barresi
- A New Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm: Three Bounds Ant System
Nikola Ivkovic, Marin Golub
- GPU Implementation of Food-Foraging Problem for Evolutionary Swarm Robotics Systems
Kazuhiro Ohkura, Toshiyuki Yasuda, Yoshiyuki Matsumura, Masaki Kadota
- An Adaptive Bumble Bees Mating Optimization Algorithm for the Hierarchical Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem
Yannis Marinakis, Magdalene Marinaki
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| 16:30-18:30 |
Poster Session: Papers and previews presented in Sessions 1, 2, 3, and 5 (coffee served at 17:00) |
Friday, September 12, 2014
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| 09:00-10:30 |
Session 6: Oral Presentations
Chair: Heiko Hamann
- 09:00 - Scheduling a galvanization line by Ant Colony Optimization
Silvino Fernandez, Segundo Alvarez, Diego Diaz, Miguel Iglesias, Borja Ena
- 09:30 - Temporal Task Allocation in Periodic Environments
Manuel Castillo-Cagigal, Arne Brutschy, Alvaro Gutiérrez, Mauro Birattari
- 10:00 - Can Frogs Find Large Independent Sets in a Decentralized Way? Yes They Can!
Christian Blum, Maria J. Blesa, Borja Calvo
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Session 7: Oral Presentations
Chair: Elio Tuci
- 11:00 - An Experiment in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms: AutoMoDe-Vanilla, EvoStick, and Human Experts
Gianpiero Francesca, Manuele Brambilla, Arne Brutschy, Lorenzo Garattoni, Roman Miletitch, Gaetan Podevijn, Andreagiovanni Reina, Touraj Soleymani, Mattia Salvaro, Carlo Pinciroli, Vito Trianni, Mauro Birattari
- 11:30 - Influencing a Flock via Ad Hoc Teamwork
Katie Genter, Peter Stone
- 12:00 - An ACO Algorithm to Solve an Extended Cutting Stock Problem for Scrap Minimization in a Bar Mill
Diego Diaz, Pablo Valledor, Paula Areces, Jorge Rodil, Montserrat Suarez
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| 12:30-13:30 |
Sandwich lunch at conference site |
| 13:30-14:00 |
Session 8: Preview Highlights
Chair: Kazuhiro Ohkura
- Nature-Inspired Swarm Robotics Algorithms for Prioritized Foraging
Jade Abbott, Andries P. Engelbrecht
- Gene Expression in DNA Microarrays: A classification problem using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm
Beatriz A. Garro, Roberto A. Vazquez, Katya Rodríguez
- Particle Swarm Optimisation with Enhanced Memory Particles
Ian Broderick, Enda Howley
- Morphology Learning via MDL and Ants
Päivi Suomalainen
- Sorting in Swarm Robots Using Communication-Based Cluster Size Estimation
Hongli Ding, Heiko Hamann
- Parallelizing Solution Construction in ACO for GPUs
Noriyuki Fujimoto, Shigeyoshi Tsutsui
- Using Fluid Neural Networks to Create Dynamic Neighborhood Topologies in Particle Swarm Optimization
Stephen M. Majercik
- Solving Resource-Constraint Project Scheduling Problems based on ACO algorithms
Antonio Gonzalez-Pardo, David Camacho
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| 14:00-16:00 |
Poster Session: Papers and previews presented in Sessions 4, 6, 7, and 8 (coffee served at 15:00) |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Award Ceremony |
| 16:30 |
Conference conclusion |
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