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...
We describe a theory from Herbert Simon that links the structure of complex systems to increased speed of evolution, and argue the position that this theory can be beneficial to ev...
Jennifer Owen, Susan Stepney, Jonathan Timmis, Ala...
Abstract. We consider a heterogeneous swarm robotic system composed of wheeled and aerial robots called foot-bots and eye-bots, respectively. The foot-bots are able to physically c...
Nithin Mathews, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Rehan O'...
In this paper, we study how an opinion dynamics model can be the core of a collective decision-making mechanism for swarm robotics. Our main result is that when opinions represent ...
Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, Eliseo Ferrante, Nith...
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...