Conference Program

Monday, 22nd September 2008

08:30-18:00 Registration

09:15-09:30 Introductory Remarks

09:30-10:30 Invited Talk:  Ant Colony Optimization Hybrids by Christian Blum

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 1: Oral Presentations

• 11:00 Molecular Structure Elucidation Using Ant Colony Optimization: A Preliminary Study
  Caroline Farrelly, Douglas B. Kell, Joshua Knowles
  
  
• 11:30 cAnt-Miner: An Ant Colony Classification Algorithm to Cope with Continuous Attributes
  Fernando E. B. Otero, Alex A. Freitas, and Colin G. Johnson
  
  
• 12:00 Learning from House-Hunting Ants: Collective Decision-Making in Organic Computing Systems
  Arne Brutschy, Alexander Scheidler, Daniel Merkle, and Martin Middendorf
  
  

12:30-14:30 Free time for lunch

14:30-15:30 Session 2: Oral Presentations

• 14:30 Gathering Multiple Robotic Agents with Crude Distance Sensing Capabilities
  Noam Gordon, Yotam Elor, and Alfred M. Bruckstein
  
  
• 15:00 Integration of ACO in a Constraint Programming Language
  Madjid Khichane, Patrick Albert, and Christine Solnon
  
  

15:30-16:15 Session 3: Preview Highlights

• Ant Colony Optimization for Genome-Wide Genetic Analysis
  Casey S. Greene, Bill C. White, and Jason H. Moore
  
  
• A Dynamic Swarm for Visual Location Tracking
  Marcel Kronfeld, Christian Weiss, and Andreas Zell
  
  
• A Simulation Study of Routing Performance in Realistic Urban Scenarios for MANETs
  Gianni A. Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, and Luca M. Gambardella
  
  
• Ant Based Heuristics for the Capacitated Fixed Charge Location Problem
  Harry Venables and Alfredo Moscardini
  
  
• Ant Colony Optimization and the Single Round Robin Maximum Value Problem
  David C. Uthus, Patricia J. Riddle, and Hans W. Guesgen
  
  
• Dependency by Concentration of Pheromone Trail for Multiple Robots
  Ryusuke Fujisawa, Shigeto Dobata, Daisuke Kubota, Hikaru Imamura, and Fumitoshi Matsuno
  
  
• Dissemination of Information with Fair Load Distribution in Self-Organizing Grids
  Agostino Forestiero, Carlo Mastroianni, and Giandomenico Spezzano
  
  
• A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Multiuser Scheduling in HSDPA
  Mehmet E. Aydin, Raymon Kwan, Cyril Leung, and Jie Zhang
  
  
• AntLib v1.0: A Generic C++ Framework for Ant Colony Optimization
  Francisco Javier Diego Martín, José Ángel González Manteca, Ruth Carrasco-Gallego, and Javier Carrasco Arias
  
  

16:15-18:15 Poster Session: Papers and previews presented in Sessions 1, 2, and 3

18:15 End

Tuesday, 23rd September 2008

09:30-10:30 Invited Talk:  Symbrion: from Swarm to multi-cellular Organism by Alan Winfield

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 4: Oral Presentations

• 11:00 Modeling Phase Transition in Self-Organized Mobile Robot Flocks
  Ali Emre Turgut, Cristián Huepe, Hande Çelikkanat, Fatih Gökçe, and Erol Sahin
  
  
• 11:30 Simple Dynamic Particle Swarms without Velocity
  Jorge Peña
  
  
• 12:00 Rigorous Analyses for the Combination of Ant Colony Optimization and Local Search
  Frank Neumann, Dirk Sudholt, and Carsten Witt
  
  

12:30-14:30 Free time for lunch

14:30-15:30 Session 5: Oral Presentations

• 14:30 Ant Colony Optimization for Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in Ad-Hoc Networks
  Hugo Hernández, Christian Blum, and Guillem Francès
  
  
• 15:00 Two-level ACO for Haplotype Inference Under Pure Parsimony
  Stefano Benedettini, Andrea Roli, and Luca Di Gaspero
  
  

15:30-16:15 Session 6: Preview Highlights

• Finding Minimum Spanning/Distances Trees by using River Formation Dynamics
  Pablo Rabanal, Ismael Rodríguez, and Fernando Rubio
  
  
• Beanbag Robotics: Robotic Swarms with 1-DoF Units
  David M. M. Kriesel, Eugene Cheung, Metin Sitti, and Hod Lipson
  
  
• BlåtAnt: Bounding Networks' Diameter with a Collaborative Distributed Algorithm
  Amos Brocco, Fulvio Frapolli, and Béat Hirsbrunner
  
  
• Artificial Ants to Extract Leaf Outlines and Primary Venation Patterns
  Robert J. Mullen, Dorothy Monekosso, Sarah Barman, Paolo Remagnino, and Paul Wilkin
  
  
• Lattice Formation in Space for a Swarm of Pico Satellites
  Carlo Pinciroli, Mauro Birattari, Elio Tuci, Marco Dorigo, Marco del Rey Zapatero, Tamas Vinko, and Dario Izzo
  
  
• Emergent Sorting in Networks of Router Agents
  Alexander Scheidler, Christian Blum, Daniel Merkle, and Martin Middendorf
  
  
• Enhancing the Cooperative Transport of Multiple Objects
  Antoine Decugnière, Benjamin Poulain, Alexandre Campo, Carlo Pinciroli, Bruno Tartini, Michel Osée, Marco Dorigo, and Mauro Birattari
  
  
• Incorporating Heuristics in a Swarm Intelligence Framework for Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Gene Expression Time Series
  Kyriakos Kentzoglanakis, Matthew Poole, and Carl Adams
  
  
• bicACO: An Ant Colony Inspired Biclustering Algorithm
  Fabrício O. de França, Guilherme P. Coelho, and Fernando J. Von Zuben
  
  
• Dynamic Routing and Travel Time Prediction with Ant Based Control
  Bogdan Tatomir, Adriana-Camelia Suson and Leon Rothkrantz
  
  
• Network Formation using Ant Colony Optimization
  Steven C. Oimoen, Gilbert L. Peterson, and Kenneth M. Hopkinson
  
  

16:15-18:15 Poster Session: Papers and previews presented in Sessions 4, 5, and 6

18:15 End

19:00 Conference dinner at the restaurant "Madame Olsen" located at 467 Chaussee de Boondael.

Wednesday, 24th September 2008

09:30-10:30 Invited Talk:  Ant Colony Optimization for industrial vehicle routing problems by Luca Maria Gambardella

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Session 7: Preview Highlights

• An Improved ACO Based Plug-in to Enhance the Interpretability of Fuzzy Rule Bases with Exceptions
  Pablo Carmona and Juan Luis Castro
  
  
• Swarming in a Virtual World: A PSO Approach to Virtual Camera Composition
  Luca Di Gaspero, Andrea Ermetici, and Roberto Ranon
  
  
• What Hides in Dimension X? A Quest for Visualizing Particle Swarms
  Namrata Khemka and Christian Jacob
  
  
• Incorporating Preferences to a Multi-objective Ant Colony Algorithm for Time and Space Assembly Line Balancing
  Manuel Chica, Óscar Cordón, Sergio Damas, Jordi Pereira, and Joaquín Bautista
  
  
• KANTS: Artifical Ant System for Classification
  Carlos Fernandes, Antonio Miguel Mora, Juan Julián Merelo, Vitorino Ramos, Juan Luís Laredo, and Agostihno Rosa
  
  
• Autonomous Reconfiguration in a Self-Assembling Multi-Robot System
  Rehan O'Grady, Anders Lyhne Christensen, and Marco Dorigo
  
  
• Merging Groups for the Exploration of Complex State Spaces in the CPSO Approach
  Stefanie Thiem, Jörg Lässig, and Peter Köchel
  
  
• Parallel Ant Colony Optimization for the Quadratic Assignment Problems with Symmetric Multi Processing
  Shigeyoshi Tsutsui
  
  
• Social Odometry in Populations of Autonomous Robots
  Álvaro Gutiérrez, Alexandre Campo, Francisco C. Santos, Carlo Pinciroli, and Marco Dorigo
  
  
• The Architecture of Ant-Based Clustering to Improve Topographic Mapping
  Lutz Herrmann and Alfred Ultsch
  
  
• The Small World of Pheromone Trails
  Paola Pellegrini and Andrea Ellero
  
  
• On the Stability and the Parameters of Particle Swarm Optimization
  Keiichiro Yasuda, Nobuhiro Iwasaki, and Genki Ueno
  
  
• Regional Traffic Assignment by ACO
  Vittorio Maniezzo, Matteo Roffilli, Roberto Gabrielli, Alessandra Guidazzi, Manuel Otero, and Rolando Trujillo
  
  
• SwarmClass: A Novel Data Clustering Approach by a Hybridization of an Ant Colony with Flying Insects
  Amira Hamdi, Nicolas Monmarché, M. Adel Alimi, and Mohamed Slimane
  
  
• The Differential Ant-Stigmergy Algorithm for Large Scale Real-Parameter Optimization
  Peter Korošec and Jurij Šilc
  
  

12:00-14:00 Poster Session

14:00-14:30 Best Paper Award. Concluding Remarks.

14:30 End