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ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
How important are updating schemes in multi-agent systems? An illustration on a multi-turmite model
It is to date an open question to know how the updating methods affect the evolution of a multi-agent system. This question has been tackled for various complex systems such as ce...
Nazim Fatès, Vincent Chevrier
ANTSW
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Theoretical Properties of Two ACO Approaches for the Traveling Salesman Problem
Ant colony optimization (ACO) has been widely used for different combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we investigate ACO algorithms with respect to their runtime beh...
Timo Kötzing, Frank Neumann, Heiko Rögli...
GECCO
2010
Springer
213views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Consultant-guided search algorithms for the quadratic assignment problem
Abstract. Consultant-Guided Search (CGS) is a recent swarm intelligence metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems, inspired by the way real people make decisions based ...
Serban Iordache
ANTSW
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Antbots: A Feasible Visual Emulation of Pheromone Trails for Swarm Robots
In this paper we present an experimental setup to model the pheromone trail based foraging behaviour of ants using a special phosphorescent glowing paint. We have built two custom ...
Ralf Mayet, Jonathan Roberz, Thomas Schmickl, Karl...
ARC
2010
Springer
145views Hardware» more  ARC 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Self-organizing logistics systems
: When a logistics system is "self-organizing" it can function without significant intervention by managers, engineers, or software control. The social insects, such as a...
John J. Bartholdi III, Donald D. Eisenstein, Yun F...