ANTS 2018: 11th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence Italian National Research Council (CNR) Rome, Italy, October 29-31, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.swarm-intelligence.eu/ants2018/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ants2018 |
Submission deadline | April 15, 2018 |
Swarm intelligence is the discipline that deals with the study of self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificial systems. Researchers in ethology and animal behavior have proposed a number of models to explain interesting aspects of collective behaviors such as movement coordination, shape-formation or decision making. Recently, algorithms and methods inspired by these models have been proposed to solve difficult problems in many domains. ANTS 2018 will give researchers in swarm intelligence the opportunity to meet, to present their latest research, and to discuss current developments and applications.
List of Topics
ANTS 2018 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of swarm intelligence. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:
- Behavioral models of social insects or other animal societies that can stimulate new algorithmic approaches.
- Empirical and theoretical research in swarm intelligence.
- Application of swarm intelligence methods, such as ant colony optimization or particle swarm optimization, to real-world problems.
- Theoretical and experimental research in swarm robotics systems.
Organizing committee
- General chair
- Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Vice-general chair
- Mauro Birattari, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Local organisation and publicity chair
- Vito Trianni, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy
- Technical program chairs
- Christian Blum, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
- Anders L. Christensen, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
- Publication chair
- Andreagiovanni Reina, The University of Sheffield, UK
Invited Speakers
- David Sumpter
- Alcherio Martinoli
- Holger Hoos
- Vittorio Loreto
- Andrea Cavagna
- Irene Giardina
- Roberto di Lenoardo
Publication
ANTS 2018 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.
Venue
The conference will be held in Rome, Italy. The conference will be hosted by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in a historical building close to the Sapienza University.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ants.conf@gmail.com