Swarm Intelligence 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, Brussels, Belgium,September 8-10, 2010 Proceedings

A Graph-Based Developmental Swarm Representation and Algorithm.- A Graph-Based Developmental Swarm Representation and Algorithm.- A Modified Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for the Best Low Multilinear Rank Approximation of Higher-Order Tensors.- A Robotic Validation of the Attractive Field Model: An Inter-disciplinary Model of Self-regulatory Social Systems.- A Thermodynamic Approach to the Analysis of Multi-robot Cooperative Localization under Independent Errors.- An Alternative ACO Algorithm for Continuous Optimization Problems.- An Efficient Optimization Method for Revealing Local Optima of Projection Pursuit Indices.- Ant Colony Optimisation for Ligand Docking.- Antbots: A Feasible Visual Emulation of Pheromone Trails for Swarm Robots.- Automatic Configuration of Multi-Objective ACO Algorithms.- Autonomous Morphogenesis in Self-assembling Robots Using IR-Based Sensing and Local Communications.- Autonomous Multi-agent Cycle Based Patrolling.- Biologically Realistic Primitives for Engineered Morphogenesis.- Evaluating the Robustness of Activator-Inhibitor Models for Cluster Head Computation.- Evolution of Self-organised Path Formation in a Swarm of Robots.- Extensions to the Ant-Miner Classification Rule Discovery Algorithm.- Functional Blueprints: An Approach to Modularity in Grown Systems.- Heterogeneous Particle Swarm Optimization.- Modern Continuous Optimization Algorithms for Tuning Real and Integer Algorithm Parameters.- Multi-agent Deployment on a Ring Graph.- Multi-Swarm Optimization for Dynamic Combinatorial Problems: A Case Study on Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem.- Off-line vs. On-line Tuning: A Study on Ant System for the TSP.- Opinion Dynamics for Decentralized Decision-Making in a Robot Swarm.- Positional Communication and Private Information in Honeybee Foraging Models.- Rank Based Particle Swarm Optimization.- Self-organized Task Partitioning in a Swarm of Robots.- Slime Mold Inspired Path Formation Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Solving the Multi-dimensional Multi-choice Knapsack Problem with the Help of Ants.- Theoretical Properties of Two ACO Approaches for the Traveling Salesman Problem.- Short Papers.- A Cooperative Network Game Efficiently Solved via an Ant Colony Optimization Approach.- A Deterministic Metaheuristic Approach Using “Logistic Ants” for Combinatorial Optimization.- A Model Based Ant Colony Design for the Protein Engineering Problem.- ACOPHY: A Simple and General Ant Colony Optimization Approach for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction.- ACS Searching for D 4t -Hadamard Matrices.- Ant Based Semi-supervised Classification.- Automatic Generation of Optimised Working Time Models in Personnel Planning.- Bee-Sensor: A Step Towards Meta-Routing Strategies in Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks.- Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication.- Early-Stage Diagnosis of Endogenous Diseases by Swarms of Nanobots: An Applicative Scenario.- EDA-PSO: A Hybrid Paradigm Combining Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimization.- Emergent Flocking with Low-End Swarm Robots.- Exploiting Loose Horizontal Coupling in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics.- Formal Verification of Probabilistic Swarm Behaviours.- Inverse Modeling in Geoenvironmental Engineering Using a Novel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm.- Mobile Stigmergic Markers for Navigation in a Heterogeneous Robotic Swarm.- Motif Finding Using Ant Colony Optimization.- Multiple Ant Colony System for Substructure Discovery.- Opportunistic Ant-Based Path Management for Wireless Mesh Networks.- Parallel Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm on a Multi-core Processor.- Particle Swarm Optimization in High Dimensional Spaces.- Particle Swarm Optimization of Bollinger Bands.- Protein Structure Prediction in Lattice Models with Particle Swarm Optimization.- Short and Robust Communication Paths in Dynamic Wireless Networks.- The ACO Encoding.- The Complexity of Grid Coverage by Swarm Robotics.- The Design of an Active Structural Vibration Reduction System Using a Modified Particle Swarm Optimization.- Extended Abstracts.- Ant Colony Extended: Search in Solution Spaces with a Countably Infinite Number of Solutions.- Automatic Parameter Configuration of Particle Swarm Optimization by Classification of Function Features.- Constructing Low-Cost Swarm Robots That March in Column Formation.- Coordinating Heterogeneous Swarms through Minimal Communication among Homogeneous Sub-swarms.- Effect of Particle Initialization on the Performance of Particle Swarm Niching Algorithms.- Energy Efficient Swarm Deployment for Search in Unknown Environments.- Genetic Encoding of Robot Metamorphosis: How to Evolve a Glider with a Genetic Regulatory Network.- How Ant Systems Can Help in Management of pH for Industrial Wastewater Discharges.- Hybrid Metaheuristic Combining Ant Colony Optimization and H-Method.- Increasing Individual Density Reduces Extra-Variance in Swarm Intelligence.- “Look out!”: Socially-Mediated Obstacle Avoidance in Collective Transport.- On Possible Connections between Ant Algorithms and Random Matrix Theory.- Soft Variable Fixing in Path Relinking: An Application to ACO Codes.- Training Randomly Connected, Recurrent Artificial Neural Networks Using PSO.