Ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence
Subtitle: 4th international workshop, ANTS 2004, Brussels, Belgium, September 5-8, 2004 : proceedings
By: Marco Dorigo ... [et al.] (eds.).
Contributors: Dorigo, Marco.
Series: Lecture notes in computer science,; 3172
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Ant algorithms -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: ANTS 2004
Description: 1 With its fourth edition, the ANTS series of workshops has changed its name. Theoriginal“ANTS–FromAntColoniestoArti?cialAnts:InternationalWo- shop on Ant Algorithms” has become “ANTS – International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence”. This change is mainly due to the following reasons. First, the term “ant algorithms” was slower in spreading in the research community than the term “swarm intelligence”, while at the sametime research inso-calledswarm robotics wasthesubjectofincreasingactivity:itwastherefore an obvious choice to substitute the term ant algorithms with the more accepted and used term swarm intelligence. Second, although swarm intelligence research has undoubtedly produced a 2 number of interesting and promising research directions , we think it is fair to say that its most successful strand is the one known as “ant colony optimi- tion”.Ant colony optimization, ?rst introducedin the early1990sasa noveltool fortheapproximatesolutionofdiscreteoptimizationproblems,hasrecentlyseen an explosion in the number of its applications, both to academic and real-world problems, and is currently being extended to the realm of continuous optimi- tion (a few papers on this subject being published in these proceedings). It is therefore a reasonable choice to have the term ant colony optimization as part of the workshop name.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also issued online.