ANTS 2016, continuing a tradition started with ANTS 2002, assigns a "Best paper award".

In addition to a certificate signed by the conference organizers, the award consists of a sculpture of an ant expressly created for ANTS 2016 by the Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese.

The best paper award has been graciously supported by LNCS Springer.

The winning paper was:

Random walks in swarm robotics: an experiment with Kilobots

Cristina Dimidov, Giuseppe Oriolo and Vito Trianni

Initial submission instructions

The submission page is here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ants20160.

Submitted papers must be between 8 and 12 pages long, written in English, typeset in LaTeX, and formatted in the LNCS Springer style. Please download the LNCS package (zip, 219 Kb) for LaTeX and the instruction file (pdf, 160 Kb) directly from the Springer web site. Authors are expected to use the default font and font size of the LNCS LaTeX style. Papers that do not respect these guidelines will be rejected.

Authors are expected to submit their manuscript in PDF format.

All submitted papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. If a submission is not accepted as a full length paper, it may still be accepted either as a short paper or as an extended abstract. In such cases the authors will be asked to reduce the length of the submitted paper accordingly. The authors of all accepted papers will be asked to improve their papers on the basis of reviewers' comments.

Camera ready submission instructions

Authors of the accepted papers are expected to provide the camera-ready copy in PDF format, and all source files—i.e. LaTex file(s), figures and references—needed for obtaining the final version of their paper. Papers that do not comply with all requirements might fail to be included in the conference proceedings.

By submitting a camera-ready paper, the author(s) agree that at least one author will attend and present the paper at the conference.

The submission page is here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ants20160.

Number of pages and deadline

Full-length papers are allotted 12 pages in the proceedings; short papers, 8 pages; and extended abstracts, 2 pages.

The camera-ready version of your paper must be submitted by May 15.

Preparing the camera-ready copy

Take into account the comments contained in the reviews of your paper when preparing the camera-ready copy of your contribution.

Only contributions typeset in LaTeX will be included in the ANTS 2016 proceedings. Download the package llncs2e.zip from Springer and format your contribution using the LaTeX class llncs included therein. References must be formatted using the BibTeX style splncs03 which is included in llncs2e.zip, too. References must follow the Number-Only system. Please refer to the class documentation included in the package.

Do not alter in any way the parameters defined by the llncs class. In particular, do not change font family, font size, line spacing, and margin width. Original Springer's class/style files should not be manipulated. Do not include the llncs class among the file you submit. Your paper will be recompiled by Springer using the original llncs class: If you make any modification to this file, the paper will not compile correctly. In this case, your paper will not be included in the proceedings.

Concerning the name of authors given in the latex field \author{}, please provide the full first name and not just the initial. Do not include the academic title, e.g.: Prof. or Dr.

Provide the following information for all authors at the beginning of the contribution: department, faculty, university, company (as applicable), city, country and email address. Do not include street address and ZIP code: This is not supposed to be the full postal address.

To allow you to include this information the llncs class provides the command \institute. To add email addresses, use the command \email within the \institute command. Example:

\institute{SomeLab, University of Somecity, Somecity, Somecountry \email{mymail@somelab.somecity-university.edu}}

After the \institute command please include an \index entry for each of the authors. Example:

\index{Last_name_of_author1, First_name_of_author1}
\index{Last_name_of_author2, First_name_of_author2}
\index{Last_name_of_author3, First_name_of_author3}

For further details, please refer to the documentation of the llncs class.

Acknowledgements, if any, should be given in a final subsubsection at the end of the paper, just before the list of references. Use the following command:

\bigskip
\subsubsection*{Acknowledgments. } 
%

Do not provide acknowledgments in a footnote to the title or to the author's name.

Notice that the proceedings will be printed in black and white. Make sure that the figures do not rely on colors to pass a message and they are understandable also when printed in black and white.

A contribution accepted as an extended abstract must not contain an abstract: after the \maketitle command, the body of the paper should start immediately.

By May 15, you must upload the final version of your contribution to the on-line conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ants20160.

In particular, you should upload a compressed archive, either in the zip or tgz format, containing:

• The camera-ready copy in PDF format (.pdf)
• The final LaTeX file (.tex)
• All figures (if you have any)
• The BibTeX file (.bib)

Copyright Form

You must fill in and sign the Springer's copyright form. The form should be emailed to ants@iridia.ulb.ac.be.