[DMANET] ANTS 2020: Call for Participation

ANTS 2020: Call for Participation
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ANTS 2020: 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
October 26-28, 2020. Online.
Program information: https://www.iiia.csic.es/ants2020/#conference
Registration: https://www.iiia.csic.es/ants2020/#registration

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Scope of the Conference
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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. Among these, it is worth
mentioning ant colony optimization (ACO) and particle swarm optimization
(PSO), focusing respectively on discrete and continuous optimisation
problems. Also, Swarm robotics represents another field of techniques
derived from swarm intelligence for the design of collaborative
multi-robot systems featuring enhanced efficiency, robustness and
scalability. ANTS 2020 aims to give researchers in swarm intelligence
the opportunity to meet, to present their latest research, and to
discuss current developments and applications.

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Participation
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be held online.
However, this gives you the opportunity to assist to this interesting
event (check the program at
https://www.iiia.csic.es/ants2020/#conference) for a reduced
registration fee of 160 Euros. Apart from presentations on cutting edge
research in optimization, robotics and other swarm intelligence topics,
the conference will feature the following three highly interesting
keynote talks:

Speaker: Radhika Nagpal
Title: The Collective Intelligence of Army Ants, and the Robots They Inspire

Speaker: Orit Peleg
Title: Collective Ecophysiology and Physics of Social Insects

Speaker: Gabriela Ochoa
Title: Complex Networks in Search and Optimisation

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Contact
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For any questions please contact Christian Blum
(christian.blum@iiia.csic.es)
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