Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

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5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, Brussels, Belgium, September 4-7, 2006, Proceedings
Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella, Mauro Birattari, Alcherio Martinoli, Riccardo Poli, Thomas Stützle (Eds.)


Table of contents
A Comparison of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms Based on Run-Length Distributions Pages 1-12 Oca, Marco A. Montes (et al.)
A Framework and Model for Soft Routing: The Markovian Termite and Other Curious Creatures Pages 13-24 Roth, Martin
A Stochastic Traffic Assignment Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimisation Pages 25-36 D’Acierno, Luca (et al.)
An Analysis of the Different Components of the AntHocNet Routing Algorithm Pages 37-48 Ducatelle, Frederick (et al.)
An Energy-Efficient Ant-Based Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks Pages 49-59 Camilo, Tiago (et al.)
An Enhanced Aggregation Pheromone System for Real-Parameter Optimization in the ACO Metaphor Pages 60-71 Tsutsui, Shigeyoshi
An Estimation of Distribution Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Pages 72-83 Iqbal, Mudassar (et al.)
Ant-Based Approach to the Knowledge Fusion Problem Pages 84-95 Martens, David (et al.)
Beam-ACO Applied to Assembly Line Balancing Pages 96-107 Blum, Christian (et al.)
Boundary Search for Constrained Numerical Optimization Problems in ACO Algorithms Pages 108-119 Leguizamón, Guillermo (et al.)
Chain Based Path Formation in Swarms of Robots Pages 120-131 Nouyan, Shervin (et al.)
Communication, Leadership, Publicity and Group Formation in Particle Swarms Pages 132-143 Poli, Riccardo (et al.)
Covering a Continuous Domain by Distributed, Limited Robots Pages 144-155 Osherovich, Eliyahu (et al.)
Incremental Local Search in Ant Colony Optimization: Why It Fails for the Quadratic Assignment Problem Pages 156-166 Balaprakash, Prasanna (et al.)
Individual Discrimination Capability and Collective Choice in Social Insects Pages 167-178 Millor, Jesus (et al.)
Iterated Ants: An Experimental Study for the Quadratic Assignment Problem Pages 179-190 Wiesemann, Wolfram (et al.)
Negotiation of Goal Direction for Cooperative Transport Pages 191-202 Campo, Alexandre (et al.)
On $\cal M\!AX\!$ – $\cal MI\!N\!$ Ant System’s Parameters Pages 203-214 Pellegrini, Paola (et al.)
On the Invariance of Ant System Pages 215-223 Birattari, Mauro (et al.)
Parallel Ant Colony Optimization for the Traveling Salesman Problem Pages 224-234 Manfrin, Max (et al.)
Placement Constraints and Macrocell Overlap Removal Using Particle Swarm Optimization Pages 235-246 Hsieh, Sheng-Ta (et al.)
PLANTS: Application of Ant Colony Optimization to Structure-Based Drug Design Pages 247-258 Korb, Oliver (et al.)
Rendezvous of Glowworm-Inspired Robot Swarms at Multiple Source Locations: A Sound Source Based Real-Robot Implementation Pages 259-269 Kaipa, Krishnanand N. (et al.)
Replicating Multi-quality Web Applications Using ACO and Bipartite Graphs Pages 270-281 Mayer, Christopher B. (et al.)
Restoration Performance vs. Overhead in a Swarm Intelligence Path Management System Pages 282-293 Heegaard, Poul E. (et al.)
Solving a Bi-objective Flowshop Scheduling Problem by Pareto-Ant Colony Optimization Pages 294-305 Pasia, Joseph M. (et al.)
Traffic Patterns and Flow Characteristics in an Ant Trail Model Pages 306-315 John, Alexander (et al.)
A Continuous Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem Pages 316-323 Sevkli, Mehmet (et al.)
A Direct Application of Ant Colony Optimization to Function Optimization Problem in Continuous Domain Pages 324-331 Kong, Min (et al.)
A Parallel ACO Approach Based on One Pheromone Matrix Pages 332-339 Lv, Qiang (et al.)
An ACO-Based Clustering Algorithm Pages 340-347 Kao, Yucheng (et al.)