Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

A Comparison of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms Based on Run-Length Distributions.- A Comparison of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms Based on Run-Length Distributions.- A Framework and Model for Soft Routing: The Markovian Termite and Other Curious Creatures.- A Stochastic Traffic Assignment Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimisation.- An Analysis of the Different Components of the AntHocNet Routing Algorithm.- An Energy-Efficient Ant-Based Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks.- An Enhanced Aggregation Pheromone System for Real-Parameter Optimization in the ACO Metaphor.- An Estimation of Distribution Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm.- Ant-Based Approach to the Knowledge Fusion Problem.- Beam-ACO Applied to Assembly Line Balancing.- Boundary Search for Constrained Numerical Optimization Problems in ACO Algorithms.- Chain Based Path Formation in Swarms of Robots.- Communication, Leadership, Publicity and Group Formation in Particle Swarms.- Covering a Continuous Domain by Distributed, Limited Robots.- Incremental Local Search in Ant Colony Optimization: Why It Fails for the Quadratic Assignment Problem.- Individual Discrimination Capability and Collective Choice in Social Insects.- Iterated Ants: An Experimental Study for the Quadratic Assignment Problem.- Negotiation of Goal Direction for Cooperative Transport.- On Ant Systems Parameters.- On the Invariance of Ant System.- Parallel Ant Colony Optimization for the Traveling Salesman Problem.- Placement Constraints and Macrocell Overlap Removal Using Particle Swarm Optimization.- PLANTS: Application of Ant Colony Optimization to Structure-Based Drug Design.- Rendezvous of Glowworm-Inspired Robot Swarms at Multiple Source Locations: A Sound Source Based Real-RobotImplementation.- Replicating Multi-quality Web Applications Using ACO and Bipartite Graphs.- Restoration Performance vs. Overhead in a Swarm Intelligence Path Management System.- Solving a Bi-objective Flowshop Scheduling Problem by Pareto-Ant Colony Optimization.- Traffic Patterns and Flow Characteristics in an Ant Trail Model.- Short Papers.- A Continuous Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem.- A Direct Application of Ant Colony Optimization to Function Optimization Problem in Continuous Domain.- A Parallel ACO Approach Based on One Pheromone Matrix.- An ACO-Based Clustering Algorithm.- An Adaptive Search Heuristic for the Capacitated Fixed Charge Location Problem.- An Ant Colony System for the Open Vehicle Routing Problem.- An Ant-Based Approach to Color Reduction.- An Orthogonal Search Embedded Ant Colony Optimization Approach to Continuous Function Optimization.- Ant Based Mechanism for Crisis Response Coordination.- Autonomous Gossiping of Information in a P2P Network with Artificial Ants.- Cooperative VLSI Tiled Architectures: Stigmergy in a Swarm Coprocessor.- Distributed Shortest-Path Finding by a Micro-robot Swarm.- Fleet Maintenance Scheduling with an Ant Colony System Approach.- Geoacoustic Inversion and Uncertainty Analysis with Ant System.- Higher Order Pheromone Models in Ant Colony Optimisation.- Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization: An Examination of the Influence of Iterative Improvement Algorithms on Performance.- Introducing a Binary Ant Colony Optimization.- Kernelization as Heuristic Structure for the Vertex Cover Problem.- Minimizing Total Earliness and Tardiness Penalties with a Common Due Date on a Single-Machine Using a Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm.- Model Selection for Support Vector Machines Using Ant Colony Optimization in an Electronic Nose Application.- On the Popularization of Artificial Insects: An Interactive Exhibition for a Wide Audience to Explain and Demonstrate Computer Science and Robotic Problem Solving Taking Inspiration of Insects.- Solution Representation for Job Shop Scheduling Problems in Ant Colony Optimisation.- Some Experiments with Ant Colony Algorithms for the Ex