Articles

1. Many-option collective decision making: discrete collective estimation in large decision spaces

   • Qihao Shan
   • Sanaz Mostaghim

   OriginalPaper Open access 22 April 2024

   

2. Imprecise evidence in social learning

   • Zixuan Liu
   • Michael Crosscombe
   • Jonathan Lawry

   OriginalPaper Open access 16 April 2024

   

3. A stochastic model of ant trail formation and maintenance in static and dynamic environments

   • Katarína Dodoková
   • Miriam Malíčková
   • Katarína Bod’ová

   OriginalPaper Open access 13 April 2024

   

4. Contextually aware intelligent control agents for heterogeneous swarms

   • Adam J. Hepworth
   • Aya S. M. Hussein
   • Hussein A. Abbass

   OriginalPaper Open access 08 March 2024

   

5. The effect of uneven and obstructed site layouts in best-of-N

   • Jennifer Leaf
   • Julie A. Adams

   OriginalPaper 07 March 2024

   

6. Predictive search model of flocking for quadcopter swarm in the presence of static and dynamic obstacles

   • Giray Önür
   • Ali Emre Turgut
   • Erol Şahin

   OriginalPaper 24 February 2024

   

7. Belief space-guided approach to self-adaptive particle swarm optimization

   • Daniel von Eschwege
   • Andries Engelbrecht

   OriginalPaper Open access 31 January 2024 Pages: 31 - 78

   

8. On the evolution of adaptable and scalable mechanisms for collective decision-making in a swarm of robots

   • Ahmed Almansoori
   • Muhanad Alkilabi
   • Elio Tuci

   OriginalPaper 19 January 2024 Pages: 79 - 99

   

9. Emergent communication enhances foraging behavior in evolved swarms controlled by spiking neural networks

   • Cristian Jimenez Romero
   • Alper Yegenoglu
   • Abigail Morrison

   OriginalPaper Open access 14 December 2023 Pages: 1 - 29

   

10. Improved decentralized cooperative multi-agent path finding for robots with limited communication

    • Abderraouf Maoudj
    • Anders Lyhne Christensen

    OriginalPaper 12 December 2023

    

11. Decomposition and merging cooperative particle swarm optimization with random grouping for large-scale optimization problems

    • Alanna McNulty
    • Beatrice Ombuki-Berman
    • Andries Engelbrecht

    OriginalPaper 14 November 2023

    

12. Elitist artificial bee colony with dynamic population size for multimodal optimization problems

    • Doğan Aydın
    • Yunus Özcan
    • Zahid Halim

    OriginalPaper 06 November 2023 Pages: 305 - 334

    

13. On the automatic design of multi-objective particle swarm optimizers: experimentation and analysis

    • Antonio J. Nebro
    • Manuel López-Ibáñez
    • Carlos A. Coello Coello

    OriginalPaper Open access 09 October 2023

    

14. Consensus decision-making in artificial swarms via entropy-based local negotiation and preference updating

    • Chuanqi Zheng
    • Kiju Lee

    OriginalPaper Open access 15 May 2023 Pages: 283 - 303

    

15. Effect of swarm density on collective tracking performance

    • Hian Lee Kwa
    • Julien Philippot
    • Roland Bouffanais

    OriginalPaper 21 March 2023 Pages: 253 - 281

    

16. Multi-agent bandit with agent-dependent expected rewards

    • Fan Jiang
    • Hui Cheng

    OriginalPaper 18 March 2023 Pages: 219 - 251

    

17. Cross-disciplinary approaches for designing intelligent swarms of drones

    • G. C. H. E. de Croon
    • W. Hönig
    • G. Vásárhelyi

    EditorialNotes 14 February 2023 Pages: 1 - 4

18. Out-of-the-box parameter control for evolutionary and swarm-based algorithms with distributed reinforcement learning

    • Marcelo Gomes Pereira de Lacerda
    • Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto
    • Herbert Kuchen

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2023 Pages: 173 - 217

    

19. Three-dimensional relative localization and synchronized movement with wireless ranging

    • Sven Pfeiffer
    • Veronica Munaro
    • Guido C. H. E. de Croon

    OriginalPaper 02 December 2022 Pages: 147 - 172

    

20. Phase transition of a nonlinear opinion dynamics with noisy interactions

    • Francesco d’Amore
    • Andrea Clementi
    • Emanuele Natale

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2022 Pages: 261 - 304

    

21. Blending multiple algorithmic granular components: a recipe for clustering

    • Olayinka Idowu Oduntan
    • Parimala Thulasiraman

    OriginalPaper 06 November 2022 Pages: 305 - 349

    

22. Wildfire detection in large-scale environments using force-based control for swarms of UAVs

    • Georgios Tzoumas
    • Lenka Pitonakova
    • Sabine Hauert

    OriginalPaper Open access 01 November 2022 Pages: 89 - 115

    

23. Collective gradient perception with a flying robot swarm

    • Tugay Alperen Karagüzel
    • Ali Emre Turgut
    • Eliseo Ferrante

    OriginalPaper Open access 26 October 2022 Pages: 117 - 146

    

24. Drone flocking optimization using NSGA-II and principal component analysis

    • Jagdish Chand Bansal
    • Nikhil Sethi
    • Atulya Nagar

    OriginalPaper 26 October 2022 Pages: 63 - 87

    

25. A field-based computing approach to sensing-driven clustering in robot swarms

    • Gianluca Aguzzi
    • Giorgio Audrito
    • Mirko Viroli

    OriginalPaper Open access 19 September 2022 Pages: 27 - 62

    

26. Noise-resistant and scalable collective preference learning via ranked voting in swarm robotics

    • Qihao Shan
    • Sanaz Mostaghim

    OriginalPaper Open access 05 September 2022 Pages: 5 - 26

    

27. Sample greedy based task allocation for multiple robot systems

    • Hyo-Sang Shin
    • Teng Li
    • Antonios Tsourdos

    OriginalPaper Open access 13 August 2022 Pages: 233 - 260

    

28. Emergent naming conventions in a foraging robot swarm

    • Roman Miletitch
    • Andreagiovanni Reina
    • Vito Trianni

    OriginalPaper 13 July 2022 Pages: 211 - 232

    

29. On multi-human multi-robot remote interaction: a study of transparency, inter-human communication, and information loss in remote interaction

    • Jayam Patel
    • Prajankya Sonar
    • Carlo Pinciroli

    OriginalPaper 11 March 2022 Pages: 107 - 142

    

30. Distributed deformable configuration control for multi-robot systems with low-cost platforms

    • Seoung Kyou Lee

    OriginalPaper 26 February 2022 Pages: 169 - 209

    

31. Multi-guide particle swarm optimisation archive management strategies for dynamic optimisation problems

    • Paweł Joćko
    • Beatrice M. Ombuki-Berman
    • Andries P. Engelbrecht

    OriginalPaper 01 February 2022 Pages: 143 - 168

    

32. Metaphor-based metaheuristics, a call for action: the elephant in the room

    • Claus Aranha
    • Christian L. Camacho Villalón
    • Thomas Stützle

    BriefCommunication Open access 30 November 2021 Pages: 1 - 6

33. Causes of variation of darkness in flocks of starlings, a computational model

    • A. Costanzo
    • H. Hildenbrandt
    • C. K. Hemelrijk

    OriginalPaper 25 November 2021 Pages: 91 - 105

    

34. Resource ephemerality influences effectiveness of altruistic behavior in collective foraging

    • Johannes Nauta
    • Yara Khaluf
    • Pieter Simoens

    S.I.: ANTS 2020 23 November 2021 Pages: 427 - 457

    

35. Robot swarm democracy: the importance of informed individuals against zealots

    • Giulia De Masi
    • Judhi Prasetyo
    • Elio Tuci

    OriginalPaper Open access 23 November 2021 Pages: 315 - 338

    

36. ANTS 2020 Special Issue: Editorial

    • Marco Dorigo
    • Thomas Stützle
    • Mary Katherine Heinrich

    EditorialNotes Open access 23 November 2021 Pages: 311 - 313

37. A machine education approach to swarm decision-making in best-of-n problems

    • Aya Hussein
    • Sondoss Elsawah
    • Hussein A. Abbass

    OriginalPaper 22 November 2021 Pages: 59 - 90

    

38. Ant colony optimization for feasible scheduling of step-controlled smart grid generation

    • Jörg Bremer
    • Sebastian Lehnhoff

    OriginalPaper Open access 19 October 2021 Pages: 403 - 425

    

39. Reinforcement learning as a rehearsal for swarm foraging

    • Trung Nguyen
    • Bikramjit Banerjee

    OriginalPaper 29 September 2021 Pages: 29 - 58

    

40. Discrete collective estimation in swarm robotics with distributed Bayesian belief sharing

    • Qihao Shan
    • Sanaz Mostaghim

    OriginalPaper Open access 05 September 2021 Pages: 377 - 402

    

41. Collective decision-making for dynamic environments with visual occlusions

    • Fan Jiang
    • Hui Cheng
    • Guanrong Chen

    OriginalPaper 25 August 2021 Pages: 7 - 27

    

42. HuGoS: a virtual environment for studying collective human behavior from a swarm intelligence perspective

    • Nicolas Coucke
    • Mary Katherine Heinrich
    • Marco Dorigo

    OriginalPaper Open access 03 August 2021 Pages: 339 - 376

    

43. Achieving task allocation in swarm intelligence with bi-objective embodied evolution

    • Qihao Shan
    • Sanaz Mostaghim

    OriginalPaper Open access 04 July 2021 Pages: 287 - 310

    

44. Quorum sensing without deliberation: biological inspiration for externalizing computation to physical spaces in multi-robot systems

    • Theodore P. Pavlic
    • Jake Hanson
    • Stephen C. Pratt

    OriginalPaper 17 June 2021 Pages: 171 - 203

    

45. Human-collective visualization transparency

    • Karina A. Roundtree
    • Jason R. Cody
    • Julie A. Adams

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2021 Pages: 237 - 286

    

46. Collective decision-making in living and artificial systems: editorial

    • Andreagiovanni Reina
    • Eliseo Ferrante
    • Gabriele Valentini

    EditorialNotes Open access 03 June 2021 Pages: 1 - 6

47. Collective preference learning in the best-of-n problem

    • Michael Crosscombe
    • Jonathan Lawry

    OriginalPaper Open access 02 June 2021 Pages: 145 - 170

    

48. Negative updating applied to the best-of-n problem with noisy qualities

    • Chanelle Lee
    • Jonathan Lawry
    • Alan F. T. Winfield

    OriginalPaper Open access 25 May 2021 Pages: 111 - 143

    

49. Multi-featured collective perception with Evidence Theory: tackling spatial correlations

    • Palina Bartashevich
    • Sanaz Mostaghim

    OriginalPaper Open access 22 May 2021 Pages: 83 - 110

    

50. Analysis and control of agreement and disagreement opinion cascades

    • Alessio Franci
    • Anastasia Bizyaeva
    • Naomi Ehrich Leonard

    OriginalPaper 21 May 2021 Pages: 47 - 82