Swarm Intelligence: 12th International Conference, ANTS 2020, Barcelona, Spain, October 26–28, 2020, Proceedings (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues Book 12421)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2020, held online -due to COVID-19- in Barcelona Spain, in October 2020. The 20 full papers presented , together with 8 short papers and 5 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. ANTS 2020 contributions are dealing with any aspect of swarm intelligence. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Blockchain-Controlled Physical Robot Swarm Communicating via an Ad-Hoc Network (Alexandre Pacheco, Volker Strobel, Marco Dorigo)....Pages 3-15 A New Approach for Making Use of Negative Learning in Ant Colony Optimization (Teddy Nurcahyadi, Christian Blum)....Pages 16-28 Ant Colony Optimization for Object-Oriented Unit Test Generation (Dan Bruce, Héctor D. Menéndez, Earl T. Barr, David Clark)....Pages 29-41 Branched Structure Formation in a Decentralized Flock of Wheeled Robots (Antoine Gaget, Jean-Marc Montanier, René Doursat)....Pages 42-54 Collective Decision Making in Swarm Robotics with Distributed Bayesian Hypothesis Testing (Qihao Shan, Sanaz Mostaghim)....Pages 55-67 Constrained Scheduling of Step-Controlled Buffering Energy Resources with Ant Colony Optimization (Jörg Bremer, Sebastian Lehnhoff)....Pages 68-81 Construction Task Allocation Through the Collective Perception of a Dynamic Environment (Yara Khaluf, Michael Allwright, Ilja Rausch, Pieter Simoens, Marco Dorigo)....Pages 82-95 Control Parameter Importance and Sensitivity Analysis of the Multi-Guide Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm (Timothy G. Carolus, Andries P. Engelbrecht)....Pages 96-106 Dynamic Response Thresholds: Heterogeneous Ranges Allow Specialization While Mitigating Convergence to Sink States (Annie S. Wu, H. David Mathias)....Pages 107-120 Grey Wolf, Firefly and Bat Algorithms: Three Widespread Algorithms that Do Not Contain Any Novelty (Christian Leonardo Camacho Villalón, Thomas Stützle, Marco Dorigo)....Pages 121-133 Guerrilla Performance Analysis for Robot Swarms: Degrees of Collaboration and Chains of Interference Events (Heiko Hamann, Till Aust, Andreagiovanni Reina)....Pages 134-147 Heterogeneous Response Intensity Ranges and Response Probability Improve Goal Achievement in Multi-agent Systems (H. David Mathias, Annie S. Wu, Laik Ruetten)....Pages 148-160 HuGoS: A Multi-user Virtual Environment for Studying Human–Human Swarm Intelligence (Nicolas Coucke, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Axel Cleeremans, Marco Dorigo)....Pages 161-175 Memory Induced Aggregation in Collective Foraging (Johannes Nauta, Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf)....Pages 176-189 Modeling Pathfinding for Swarm Robotics (Sebastian Mai, Sanaz Mostaghim)....Pages 190-202 Motion Dynamics of Foragers in Honey Bee Colonies (Fernando Wario, Benjamin Wild, David Dormagen, Tim Landgraf, Vito Trianni)....Pages 203-215 Multi-robot Coverage Using Self-organized Networks for Central Coordination (Aryo Jamshidpey, Weixu Zhu, Mostafa Wahby, Michael Allwright, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Marco Dorigo)....Pages 216-228 Robot Distancing: Planar Construction with Lanes (Andrew Vardy)....Pages 229-242 The Pi-puck Ecosystem: Hardware and Software Support for the e-puck and e-puck2 (Jacob M. Allen, Russell Joyce, Alan G. Millard, Ian Gray)....Pages 243-255 Zealots Attack and the Revenge of the Commons: Quality vs Quantity in the Best-of-n (Giulia De Masi, Judhi Prasetyo, Elio Tuci, Eliseo Ferrante)....Pages 256-268 Front Matter ....Pages 269-269 AutoMoDe-Arlequin: Neural Networks as Behavioral Modules for the Automatic Design of Probabilistic Finite-State Machines (Antoine Ligot, Ken Hasselmann, Mauro Birattari)....Pages 271-281 Coalition Formation Problem: A Group Dynamics Inspired Swarming Method (Mickaël Bettinelli, Michel Occello, Damien Genthial)....Pages 282-289 Collective Gradient Perception in a Flocking Robot Swarm (Tugay Alperen Karagüzel, Ali Emre Turgut, Eliseo Ferrante)....Pages 290-297 Fitting Gaussian Mixture Models Using Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization (Heinrich Cilliers, Andries P. Engelbrecht)....Pages 298-305 Formation Control of UAVs and Mobile Robots Using Self-organized Communication Topologies (Weixu Zhu, Michael Allwright, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Sinan Oğuz, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Marco Dorigo)....Pages 306-314 Group-Size Regulation in Self-organized Aggregation in Robot Swarms (Ziya Firat, Eliseo Ferrante, Raina Zakir, Judhi Prasetyo, Elio Tuci)....Pages 315-323 On the Effects of Minimally Invasive Collision Avoidance on an Emergent Behavior (Chris Taylor, Alex Siebold, Cameron Nowzari)....Pages 324-332 Set-Based Particle Swarm Optimization for Portfolio Optimization (Kyle Erwin, Andries P. Engelbrecht)....Pages 333-339 Back Matter ....Pages 341-354