Swarm Intelligence : 9th International Conference, Ants 2014, Brussels, Belgium, September 10-12, 2014 : proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, held in Brussels, Belgium, in September 2014. This volume contains 17 full papers, 9 short papers, and 7 extended abstracts carefully selected out of 55 submissions. The papers cover empirical and theoretical research in swarm intelligence such as: behavioral models of social insects or other animal societies, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, swarm robotics systems. Front Matter....Pages - A Novel Ant Colony Algorithm for Building Neural Network Topologies....Pages 1-12 An ACO Algorithm to Solve an Extended Cutting Stock Problem for Scrap Minimization in a Bar Mill....Pages 13-24 An Experiment in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms....Pages 25-37 Angle Modulated Particle Swarm Variants....Pages 38-49 Ant Colony Optimization on a Budget of 1000....Pages 50-61 Application of Supervisory Control Theory to Swarms of e-puck and Kilobot Robots....Pages 62-73 Can Frogs Find Large Independent Sets in a Decentralized Way? Yes They Can!....Pages 74-85 Diversity Rate of Change Measurement for Particle Swarm Optimisers....Pages 86-97 Evolutionary Swarm Robotics: Genetic Diversity, Task-Allocation and Task-Switching....Pages 98-109 Influencing a Flock via Ad Hoc Teamwork....Pages 110-121 MACOC: A Medoid-Based ACO Clustering Algorithm....Pages 122-133 Particle Swarm Convergence: Standardized Analysis and Topological Influence....Pages 134-145 Scheduling a Galvanizing Line by Ant Colony Optimization....Pages 146-157 SRoCS: Leveraging Stigmergy on a Multi-robot Construction Platform for Unknown Environments....Pages 158-169 Swarm in a Fly Bottle: Feedback-Based Analysis of Self-organizing Temporary Lock-ins....Pages 170-181 Temporal Task Allocation in Periodic Environments....Pages 182-193 Towards a Cognitive Design Pattern for Collective Decision-Making....Pages 194-205 A Novel Competitive Quantum-Behaviour Evolutionary Multi-Swarm Optimizer Algorithm Based on CUDA Architecture Applied to Constrained Engineering Design....Pages 206-213 Cooperative Object Recognition: Behaviours of a Artificially Evolved Swarm....Pages 214-221 Emergent Diagnoses from a Collective of Radiologists: Algorithmic versus Social Consensus Strategies....Pages 222-229 Foraging Agent Swarm Optimization with Applications in Data Clustering....Pages 230-237 GPU Implementation of Food-Foraging Problem for Evolutionary Swarm Robotics Systems....Pages 238-245 Nature-Inspired Swarm Robotics Algorithms for Prioritized Foraging....Pages 246-253 Particle Swarm Optimisation with Enhanced Memory Particles....Pages 254-261 Sorting in Swarm Robots Using Communication-Based Cluster Size Estimation....Pages 262-269 Using Fluid Neural Networks to Create Dynamic Neighborhood Topologies in Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 270-277 Back Matter....Pages -