6. ANTS Conference 2008: Brussels, Belgium
Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Christian Blum, Maurice Clerc, Thomas Stützle, Alan F. T. Winfield (Eds.): Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 6th International Conference, ANTS 2008, Brussels, Belgium, September 22-24, 2008. Proceedings. Springer 2008 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-540-87526-0
Rami N. Khushaba, Ahmed Al-Ani, Akram AlSukker, Adel Al-Jumaily: A Combined Ant Colony and Differential Evolution Feature Selection Algorithm. 1-12
Pablo Carmona, Juan Luis Castro: An Improved ACO Based Plug-in to Enhance the Interpretability of Fuzzy Rule Bases with Exceptions. 13-24
Hugo Hernández, Christian Blum, Guillem Francès: Ant Colony Optimization for Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in Ad-Hoc Networks. 25-36
Casey S. Greene, Bill C. White, Jason H. Moore: Ant Colony Optimization for Genome-Wide Genetic Analysis. 37-47
Fernando E. B. Otero, Alex Alves Freitas, Colin G. Johnson: cAnt-Miner: An Ant Colony Classification Algorithm to Cope with Continuous Attributes. 48-59
Pablo Rabanal, Ismael Rodríguez, Fernando Rubio: Finding Minimum Spanning/Distances Trees by Using River Formation Dynamics. 60-71
Noam Gordon, Yotam Elor, Alfred M. Bruckstein: Gathering Multiple Robotic Agents with Crude Distance Sensing Capabilities. 72-83
Madjid Khichane, Patrick Albert, Christine Solnon: Integration of ACO in a Constraint Programming Language. 84-95
Arne Brutschy, Alexander Scheidler, Daniel Merkle, Martin Middendorf: Learning from House-Hunting Ants: Collective Decision-Making in Organic Computing Systems. 96-107
Ali Emre Turgut, Cristián Huepe, Hande Çelikkanat, Fatih Gökçe, Erol Sahin: Modeling Phase Transition in Self-organized Mobile Robot Flocks. 108-119
Caroline Farrelly, Douglas B. Kell, Joshua D. Knowles: Molecular Structure Elucidation Using Ant Colony Optimization: A Preliminary Study. 120-131
Frank Neumann, Dirk Sudholt, Carsten Witt: Rigorous Analyses for the Combination of Ant Colony Optimization and Local Search. 132-143
Jorge Peña: Simple Dynamic Particle Swarms without Velocity. 144-154
Luca Di Gaspero, Andrea Ermetici, Roberto Ranon: Swarming in a Virtual World: A PSO Approach to Virtual Camera Composition. 155-166
Armand M. Makowski: The Binary Bridge Selection Problem: Stochastic Approximations and the Convergence of a Learning Algorithm. 167-178
Stefano Benedettini, Andrea Roli, Luca Di Gaspero: Two-Level ACO for Haplotype Inference Under Pure Parsimony. 179-190
Namrata Khemka, Christian Jacob: What Hides in Dimension X? A Quest for Visualizing Particle Swarms. 191-202
Short Papers
Marcel Kronfeld, Christian Weiss, Andreas Zell: A Dynamic Swarm for Visual Location Tracking. 203-210
Gianni Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, Luca Maria Gambardella: A Simulation Study of Routing Performance in Realistic Urban Scenarios for MANETs. 211-218

Harry Venables, Alfredo Moscardini: Ant Based Heuristics for the Capacitated Fixed Charge Location Problem. 235-242
David C. Uthus, Patricia J. Riddle, Hans W. Guesgen: Ant Colony Optimization and the Single Round Robin Maximum Value Problem. 243-250
Robert J. Mullen, Dorothy Ndedi Monekosso, Sarah Barman, Paolo Remagnino, Paul Wilkin: Artificial Ants to Extract Leaf Outlines and Primary Venation Patterns. 251-258
Rehan O'Grady, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Marco Dorigo: Autonomous Reconfiguration in a Self-assembling Multi-robot System. 259-266
David M. M. Kriesel, Eugene Cheung, Metin Sitti, Hod Lipson: Beanbag Robotics: Robotic Swarms with 1-DoF Units. 267-274
Amos Brocco, Fulvio Frapolli, Béat Hirsbrunner: BlåtAnt: Bounding Networks' Diameter with a Collaborative Distributed Algorithm. 275-282
Ryusuke Fujisawa, Shigeto Dobata, Daisuke Kubota, Hikaru Imamura, Fumitoshi Matsuno: Dependency by Concentration of Pheromone Trail for Multiple Robots. 283-290
Agostino Forestiero, Carlo Mastroianni, Giandomenico Spezzano: Dissemination of Information with Fair Load Distribution in Self-organizing Grids. 291-298
Alexander Scheidler, Christian Blum, Daniel Merkle, Martin Middendorf: Emergent Sorting in Networks of Router Agents. 299-306
Antoine Decugnière, Benjamin Poulain, Alexandre Campo, Carlo Pinciroli, Bruno Tartini, Michel Osée, Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari: Enhancing the Cooperative Transport of Multiple Objects. 307-314
Muhammad Saleem, Syed Ali Khayam, Muddassar Farooq: Formal Modeling of BeeAdHoc: A Bio-inspired Mobile Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocol. 315-322
Kyriakos Kentzoglanakis, Matthew Poole, Carl Adams: Incorporating Heuristics in a Swarm Intelligence Framework for Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Gene Expression Time Series. 323-330
Manuel Chica, Oscar Cordón, Sergio Damas, Jordi Pereira, Joaquín Bautista: Incorporating Preferences to a Multi-objective Ant Colony Algorithm for Time and Space Assembly Line Balancing. 331-338
Carlos M. Fernandes, Antonio Miguel Mora, Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, Vitorino Ramos, Juan Luís Jiménez Laredo, Agostinho C. Rosa: KANTS: Artifical Ant System for Classification. 339-346
Carlo Pinciroli, Mauro Birattari, Elio Tuci, Marco Dorigo, Marco del Rey Zapatero, Tamas Vinko, Dario Izzo: Lattice Formation in Space for a Swarm of Pico Satellites. 347-354
Stefanie Thiem, Jörg Lässig, Peter Köchel: Merging Groups for the Exploration of Complex State Spaces in the CPSO Approach. 355-362
Shigeyoshi Tsutsui: Parallel Ant Colony Optimization for the Quadratic Assignment Problems with Symmetric Multi Processing. 363-370
Álvaro Gutiérrez, Alexandre Campo, Francisco C. Santos, Carlo Pinciroli, Marco Dorigo: Social Odometry in Populations of Autonomous Robots. 371-378
Lutz Herrmann, Alfred Ultsch: The Architecture of Ant-Based Clustering to Improve Topographic Mapping. 379-386
Extended Abstracts
Mehmet Emin Aydin, Raymond Kwan, Cyril Leung, Jie Zhang: A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Multiuser Scheduling in HSDPA. 395-396
Francisco Javier Diego Martín, José Ángel González Manteca, Ruth Carrasco-Gallego, Javier Carrasco Arias: AntLib v1.0: A Generic C++ Framework for Ant Colony Optimization. 397-398
Paulo Roberto Ferreira, Ana L. C. Bazzan: Applying a Distributed Swarm-Based Algorithm to Solve Instances of the RCPSP. 399-400
Fabrício Olivetti de França, Guilherme Palermo Coelho, Fernando J. Von Zuben: bicACO: An Ant Colony Inspired Biclustering Algorithm. 401-402
Bogdan Tatomir, Adriana-Camelia Suson, Léon J. M. Rothkrantz: Dynamic Routing and Travel Time Prediction with Ant Based Control. 403-404
Steven C. Oimoen, Gilbert L. Peterson, Kenneth M. Hopkinson: Network Formation Using Ant Colony Optimization. 405-406
Keiichiro Yasuda, Nobuhiro Iwasaki, Genki Ueno: On the Stability and the Parameters of Particle Swarm Optimization. 407-408
Vittorio Maniezzo, Matteo Roffilli, Roberto Gabrielli, Alessandra Guidazzi, Manuel Otero, Rolando Trujillo-Rasua: Regional Traffic Assignment by ACO. 409-410
Amira Hamdi, Nicolas Monmarché, Mohamed Adel Alimi, Mohamed Slimane: SwarmClass: A Novel Data Clustering Approach by a Hybridization of an Ant Colony with Flying Insects. 411-412
Peter Korosec, Jurij Silc: The Differential Ant-Stigmergy Algorithm for Large Scale Real-Parameter Optimization. 413-414



