Conference email address: ants@iridia.ulb.ac.be

Publication: abstract proceedings and journal special issue

Abstract proceedings will be distributed to the participants.

The IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation will publish a special issue on Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence. Researchers taking part in ANTS'2000 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: Second International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization are invited to submit a significantly extended version of their workshop submission to the special issue.

Names and affiliations of the special issue guest editors:

Marco Dorigo IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium
Luca Maria Gambardella IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
Martin Middendorf Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Thomas Stützle Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Submission deadline

The deadline for the submission of papers to the journal special issue has been extended to

February 15, 2001.