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Program

The workshop will be spread over three locations, called: IRIDIA, TALKS ROOM, and POSTERS ROOM. The addresses are given below.

IRIDIA
Building C (5th floor)
Av. Adolphe Buyl 87
1050 Brussels

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TALKS ROOM
Building S (Sociologie, 1st floor)
Institut de Hautes Etudes de Belgique
Av. Jeanne 44
1050 Brussels
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POSTERS ROOM
Building C (same as IRIDIA)
Room C-3-122 (3rd floor)
Av. Adolphe Buyl 87
1050 Brussels
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Preliminary Program


Wednesday, 11 September 2002

14:00-19:00 Registration (IRIDIA)
18:00-20:00 Tutorial on Ant Algorithms by Marco Dorigo (TALKS ROOM)

Thursday, 12 September 2002

From 8:00 Registration (TALKS ROOM)
8:45 Introductory remarks (TALKS ROOM)



9:00-10:30 Session 1 (TALKS ROOM)

  • 9:00 Modelling ACO: Composed Permutation Problems

  • Daniel Merkle , Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Methods, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    Martin Middendorf , Computer Science Group, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
  • 9:30 ACO Applied to Group Shop Scheduling: A Case Study on Intensification and Diversification

  • Christian Blum , IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium
  • 10:00 Anti-Pheromone as a Tool for Better Exploration of Search Space

    James Montgomery & Marcus Randall , School of Information Technology, Bond University, Australia

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Session 2 (TALKS ROOM)
  • 12:00 Ant Colonies as Logistic Processes Optimizers

  • Carlos A. Silva , Siemens AG, Corporate Technology Information and Communications (CT IC 4), Germany and Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
    Thomas A. Runkler , Siemens AG, Corporate Technology Information and Communications (CT IC 4), Germany
    Joao M. Sousa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
    Rainer Palm , Siemens AG, Corporate Technology Information and Communications (CT IC 4), Germany
  • 12:30 Ant Algorithms for Assembly Line Balancing

  • Joaquin Bautista & Jordi Pereira , Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ETSEIB), Barcelona, Spain

13:00-14:30 Free time for lunch
(Lunch is up to the attendees. A list of restaurants and cafeterias in the neighborhood will be provided.)


14:30-16:30 Poster session (POSTERS ROOM)

(Coffee and small snacks will be available.)
  • A Method for Solving Optimization Problem in Continuous Space Using Ant Colony Algorithm

  • Chen Ling , Department of Computer Science, Yangzhou University, China and National Key Lab of Advanced Software Tech., Nanjing University, China
    Sheng Jie, Qin Ling & Chen Hongjian, Department of Computer Science, Yangzhou University, China
  • Ant Algorithm with Additional Reinforcement

    Stefka Fidanova , IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium
  • Ant Colony System for Image Segmentation using Markov Random Field

  • S. Ouadfel , Computer Science Department, Batna University, Algeria
    M. Batouche , Vision and Infography Team, LIRE Lab, Constantine University, Algeria
    C. Garbay , TIMC-IMAG Lab, Bonniot Institute, Grenoble, France
  • GAACO: A GA + ACO Hybrid for Faster and Better Search Capability

  • Adnan Acan , Computer Engineering Dept., Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey
  • GPS Positioning Networks Design: An Application of the Ant Colony System

    Hussain Aziz Saleh , IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium
  • Polygonalization of Bidimensional Shapes by ACO

  • Ugo Vallone , DIS, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
15:30-16:00 Coffee break (during poster session)



17:00-19:00 Session 3 (TALKS ROOM)

  • 17:20 Dynamic Wavelength Routing in WDM Networks via Ant Colony Optimization

  • Ryan M. Garlick , CSE Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA
    Richard S. Barr, EMIS Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA
  • 17:40 An Ant-based Framework for Very Strongly Constrained Problems

  • Vittorio Maniezzo & Matteo Milandri , Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
  • 18:20 A New Ant Colony Algorithm Using the Heterarchical Concept Aimed at Optimization of Multiminima Continuous Functions

  • Johann Dréo & Patrick Siarry , Laboratoire d'Etude et de Recherche en Instrumentation Signaux et Systèmes (L.E.R.I.S.S.), Université de Paris XII Val-de-Marne, France

20:00 Workshop Dinner

Friday, 13 September 2002

9:00-11:00 Session 4 (TALKS ROOM)
  • 9:00 Self-organized Networks of Galleries in the Ant Messor sancta

  • Jérôme Buhl , Laboratoire d'Ethologie et Cognition Animale, CNRS-FRE 2382, Université Paul Sabatier, France
    Jean-Louis Deneubourg , CENOLI, ULB, Belgium
    Guy Theraulaz, Laboratoire d'Ethologie et Cognition Animale, CNRS-FRE 2382, Université Paul Sabatier, France
  • 9:30 Towards Building Terrain-Covering Ant Robots

  • Jonas Svennebring & Sven Koenig , College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
  • 10:00 Agent-Based Approach to Dynamic Task Allocation

  • Shervin Nouyan , IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium and Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • 10:30 Cross-Entropy Guided Ant-like Agents Finding Cyclic Paths in Scarcely Meshed Networks

  • Otto Wittner & Bjarne E. Helvik , Department of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:10 Session 5 (TALKS ROOM)
  • 11:50 Simulation of Nest Assessment Behavior by Ant Scouts

  • Erol Sahin, IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium
    Nigel R. Franks, Centre for Behavioural Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, U.K.
  • 12:10 Candidate Set Strategies for Ant Colony Optimisation

  • Marcus Randall & James Montgomery , School of Information Technology, Bond University, Australia
  • 12:30 Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize ACS-TSP

  • Marcin L. Pilat & Tony White , School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

13:10-15:00 Free time for lunch
(Lunch is up to the attendees. A list of restaurants and cafeterias in the neighborhood will be provided.)


15:00 Excursion to a traditional Belgian brewery


Saturday, 14 September 2002

9:00-10:30 Session 6 (TALKS ROOM)
  • 9:00 Applying Population Based ACO to Dynamic Optimization Problems

  • Michael Guntsch , Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Methods, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    Martin Middendorf , Computer Science Group, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Session 7 (TALKS ROOM)
  • 11:30 Insertion based Ants for Vehicle Routing Problems with Backhauls and Time Window

  • Marc Reimann , Karl Doerner & Richard F. Hartl , Institute of Management Science, University of Vienna, Austria
  • 12:00 An Experimental Study of a Simple Ant Colony System for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

  • Ismail Ellabib, Otman A. Basir & Paul Calamai, Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada


12:30 Best paper award announcement & End of the workshop




Last updated Jan 11, 2002