[LUG.ro Mix] ANTS 2004 - Call for Papers (fwd)

[Horacio Castellini]

cosa curiosa de hormigas y fenómenos de colmena, para estudios de
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                                   ANTS 2004
                       Fourth International Workshop on
                Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

                    Brussels, Belgium, September 5-8, 2004


CALL FOR PAPERS (prepared on Oct 13, 2003)

Up-to-date information at http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~ants/ants2004/


SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

Swarm intelligence is a relatively novel discipline interested  in the study of
self-organizing processes in Nature and human artifacts.

Researchers in  ethology  and animal  behavior  have  proposed  many models  to
explain interesting aspects of social insect behavior such as self-organization
and  shape-formation.  Recently, algorithms inspired  by these models have been
proposed to solve difficult computational problems.

An example of particularly  successful research direction in swarm intelligence
is "ant colony optimization", which focuses  on discrete optimization problems.
Ant  colony  optimization has been  applied  successfully to a  large number of
difficult discrete optimization problems including  the traveling salesman, the
quadratic assignment, scheduling, vehicle routing, etc., as  well as to routing
in telecommunication networks.

Another example of interesting research direction  is swarm robotics, where the
focus  is on applying   swarm intelligence techniques  to  the control of large
groups of cooperating autonomous robots.

The ANTS 2004 workshop will give researchers in both  real and artificial swarm
intelligence the opportunity to meet, to  present their latest research, and to
discuss current developments and applications.

The four-day workshop will be held in Brussels, Belgium, Sep 5-8, 2004.
September 5 will be devoted to tutorials.


RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS

ANTS  2004 solicits  contributions dealing    with  any aspect   of ant  colony
optimization  and swarm  intelligence.  Typical,  but not   exclusive topics of
interest are:

- Models of the  behavior of social insects  or other animal societies that can
  stimulate new algorithmic approaches.

- Empirical  and  theoretical research   in  ant colony  optimization and swarm
  intelligence.

- Application  of ant  colony optimization  and  swarm  intelligence methods to
  real-world problems.

- Swarm robotics.