ANTS 2022

Call for Papers

Conference Scope

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 2022 will give researchers in swarm intelligence the opportunity to meet, to present their latest research, and to discuss current developments and applications.

Relevant Research Areas

ANTS 2022 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.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: April 15, 2022
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2022
Camera ready copy: June 29, 2022
Conference: November 2-4, 2022

Call for papers in PDF format

Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in their LNCS series.

Welcome to Málaga !

For the first time, the ANTS conference series will take place in Málaga, Spain. The conference will be hosted by the University of Málaga (UMA) in a historical building close to the city center and the touristic port.

Address

Edificio del Rectorado
Av. de Cervantes, 2
29016, Málaga, Spain.

Important Notice

Please DO NOT book any hotels via any links or phone calls received from third parties, e.g. "Ehotel Services via DocuSign" <dse_NA3@docusign.net> "Ehotel Services" <support@ehotelservices.org>. Please DO NOT reply to any emails or calls from ehotelservices.org or any other company. ANTS2022 never authorized any third-party to send any requests regarding accommodation. These are scams.

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Conference Information

Organizers

Organizing Committee

General chair: Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium; Heiko Hamann, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
Local organisation and publicity chair: Manuel López-Ibáñez, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Technical program chairs: Andries Engelbrecht, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa; Carlo Pinciroli, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, United States
Publication chair: Volker Strobel, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
Paper submission chair: Christian Camacho Villalón, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

Program Committee

Ashraf Abdelbar, Brandon University
Michael Allwright, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Martyn Amos, Northumbria University
Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies
Giovanni Beltrame, École Polytechinque de Montreal
Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths, University of London
Darko Bozhinoski, Delft University of Technology
Alexandre Campo, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Marco Castellani, University of Birmingham
Stephen Chen, York University
Christopher Cleghorn, University of the Witwatersrand
Leandro Coelho, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Parana
Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN
Sanjoy Das, Kansas State University
Guido de Croon, Delft University of Technology
Gianni Di Caro, Carnegie Mellon University
Karl Doerner, University of Vienna
Mohammed El-Abd, American University of Kuwait
Eliseo Ferrante, Vrjie Universitat Amsterdam
José García-Nieto, University of Málaga
Simon Garnier, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Roderich Gross, The University of Sheffield
Kyle Harrison, University of New South Wales Canberra
Kiyohiko Hattori, The University of Electro-Communications
Mary Katherine Heinrich, Université libre de Bruxelles
Tim Hendtlass, Swinburne University
Yara Khaluf, Ghent University
Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University
Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna
Alcherio Martinoli, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Massimo Mastrangeli, Delft University of Technology
Clerc Maurice, Independent Consultant on Optimisation
Michalis Mavrovouniotis, University of Cyprus
Yi Mei, Victoria University of Wellington
Bernd Meyer, Monash University
Nicolas Monmarché, Université de Tours
Roberto Montemanni, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale
Frank Neumann, The University of Adelaide
Ben Niu, Shenzhen University
Ann Nowe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Kazuhiro Ohkura, Hiroshima University
Michael Otte, University of Maryland

Jacopo Panerati, University of Toronto
Konstantinos Parsopoulos, University of Ioannina
Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder
Paola Pellegrini, IFSTTAR
Gilbert Peterson, US Air Force Institute of Technology
Michal Pluhacek, Tomas Bata University in Zlin
Günther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology
Pawel Romanczuk, Humboldt University of Berlin
Andreagiovanni Reina, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Andrea Roli, University of Bologna
Erol Sahin, Middle East Technical University
Roman Senkerik, Tomas Bata University in Zlin
Kevin Seppi, Brigham Young University
Christine Solnon, INSA Lyon
Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Dirk Sudholt, University of Passau
Munehiro Takimoto, Tokyo University of Science
Danesh Tarapore, University of Southampton
Guy Theraulaz, CNRS CRCA
Dhananjay Thiruvady, Deakin University
Vito Trianni, ISTC-CNR
Elio Tuci, Université de Namur
Ali Emre Turgut, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Vivek Shankar Varadharajan, Polythechnic Montreal
Mostafa Wahby, University of Luebeck
Rolf Wanka, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Justin Werfel, Harvard University
Carsten Witt, Technical University of Denmark
Masahito Yamamoto, Hokkaido University
Zhi-Hui Zhan, South China University of Technology

Instructions

Oral Presentations

Each oral presentation will last 20 minutes sharp (15 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes for questions-and-answers). A beamer will be available. A computer is available running Windows7, and PowerPoint and Acrobat Reader are installed. You can use this computer for your presentation, or you can bring your own laptop.
Paper presented orally will be also presented during the poster session on the same day of the presentation. Please refer to the on-line program for the details.

Posters:

Posters should be of size A0 portrait. There is no standard template for the poster, every author can choose what best fits his work. Material to fix the poster on the stand will be available.

Highlights:

Papers that are not presented orally will be introduced by the author in a 2 minute highlight, using a SINGLE slide. This slide must be sent to us in advance. We will preload this slide onto the computer and project it for you during your presentation.

Paper submissions will open soon

Camera ready submissions will open soon

Proceedings and journal special issue

Conference proceedings are published by Springer in the LNCS series, Volume NNNN.

The journal Swarm Intelligence will publish a special issue dedicated to ANTS 2022 that will contain extended versions of the best research works presented at the conference.

Last modified: 2 November 2021