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Swarm Intelligence

11th International Conference, ANTS 2018, Rome, Italy, October 29–31, 2018, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 11172)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

Conference series link(s): ANTS: International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

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Table of contents (36 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
  2. Full Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. A Study on Force-Based Collaboration in Flying Swarms

      • Chiara Gabellieri, Marco Tognon, Lucia Pallottino, Antonio Franchi
      Pages 3-15
    3. Automatic Design of Communication-Based Behaviors for Robot Swarms

      • Ken Hasselmann, Frédéric Robert, Mauro Birattari
      Pages 16-29
    4. Behavior Trees as a Control Architecture in the Automatic Modular Design of Robot Swarms

      • Jonas Kuckling, Antoine Ligot, Darko Bozhinoski, Mauro Birattari
      Pages 30-43
    5. Hybrid Control of Swarms for Resource Selection

      • Marco Trabattoni, Gabriele Valentini, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 57-70
    6. Local Communication Protocols for Learning Complex Swarm Behaviors with Deep Reinforcement Learning

      • Maximilian Hüttenrauch, Adrian Šošić, Gerhard Neumann
      Pages 71-83
    7. Morphogenesis as a Collective Decision of Agents Competing for Limited Resource: A Plants Approach

      • Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl
      Pages 84-96
    8. Quality-Sensitive Foraging by a Robot Swarm Through Virtual Pheromone Trails

      • Anna Font Llenas, Mohamed S. Talamali, Xu Xu, James A. R. Marshall, Andreagiovanni Reina
      Pages 135-149
    9. Search in a Maze-Like Environment with Ant Algorithms: Complexity, Size and Energy Study

      • Zainab Husain, Dymitr Ruta, Fabrice Saffre, Yousof Al-Hammadi, Abdel F. Isakovic
      Pages 150-162
    10. Self-adaptive Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization for Dynamic Environments

      • Gary Pamparà, Andries P. Engelbrecht
      Pages 163-175
    11. Simulating Kilobots Within ARGoS: Models and Experimental Validation

      • Carlo Pinciroli, Mohamed S. Talamali, Andreagiovanni Reina, James A. R. Marshall, Vito Trianni
      Pages 176-187
    12. Simulating Multi-robot Construction in ARGoS

      • Michael Allwright, Navneet Bhalla, Carlo Pinciroli, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 188-200
    13. Stability Analysis of the Multi-objective Multi-guided Particle Swarm Optimizer

      • Christopher W. Cleghorn, Christiaan Scheepers, Andries P. Engelbrecht
      Pages 201-212
    14. Task-Agnostic Evolution of Diverse Repertoires of Swarm Behaviours

      • Jorge Gomes, Anders Lyhne Christensen
      Pages 225-238

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2018, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2018.

The 24 full papers and 12 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. They are devoted to the field of swarm intelligence as a whole, without any bias towards specific research directions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari

  • Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Bellaterra, Spain

    Christian Blum

  • University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Anders L. Christensen

  • University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Andreagiovanni Reina

  • National Research Council, Rome, Italy

    Vito Trianni

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