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Motion and interaction of social insects (such as ants) have been studied by many researchers to understand the clustering mechanism. Most studies in the field of ant behavior have only focused on indoor environments, while outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Meihong Wu , Xiaoyan Cao , Xiaoyu Cao , Shihui Guo

The swarm intelligence of animals is a natural paradigm to apply to optimization problems. Ant colony, bee colony, firefly and bat algorithms are amongst those that have been demonstrated to efficiently to optimize complex constraints. This…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Videh Seksaria

The paper attempts to find numerical solutions of Diophantine equations, a challenging problem as there are no general methods to find solutions of such equations. It uses the metaphor of foraging habits of real ants. The ant colony…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Siby Abraham , Sugata Sanyal , Mukund Sanglikar

Adapting to task changes without forgetting previous knowledge is a key skill for intelligent systems, and a crucial aspect of lifelong learning. Swarm controllers, however, are typically designed for specific tasks, lacking the ability to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Lorenzo Leuzzi , Simon Jones , Sabine Hauert , Davide Bacciu , Andrea Cossu

Using elementary distributed computing techniques we suggest an explanation for two unexplained phenomena in regards to ant colonies, (a) a substantial amount of ants in an ant colony are idle, and (b) the observed low survivability of new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Yehuda Afek , Deborah M. Gordon , Moshe Sulamy

Morphological computing, the use of the physical design of a robot to ease the realization of a given task has been proven to be a relevant concept in the context of swarm robotics. Here we demonstrate both experimentally and numerically,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-13 Jeremy Fersula , Nicolas Bredeche , Olivier Dauchot

Data mining focuses on discovering interesting, non-trivial and meaningful information from large datasets. Data clustering is one of the unsupervised and descriptive data mining task which group data based on similarity features and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Pitawelayalage Dasun Dileepa Pitawela , Gamage Upeksha Ganegoda

Self-organized aggregation is a well studied behavior in swarm robotics as it is the pre-condition for the development of more advanced group-level responses. In this paper, we investigate the design of decentralized algorithms for a swarm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Antoine Sion , Andreagiovanni Reina , Mauro Birattari , Elio Tuci

The evolution of cooperation in networked systems helps to understand the dynamics in social networks, multi-agent systems, and biological species. The self-persistence of individual strategies is common in real-world decision making. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ziyan Zeng , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

We propose a simple adaptive-network model describing recent swarming experiments. Exploiting an analogy with human decision making, we capture the dynamics of the model by a low-dimensional system of equations permitting analytical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-07-15 Cristián Huepe , Gerd Zschaler , Anne-Ly Do , Thilo Gross

Clustering in stationary and nonstationary settings, where data distributions remain static or evolve over time, requires models that can adapt to distributional shifts while preserving previously learned cluster structures. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Naoki Masuyama , Yuichiro Toda , Yusuke Nojima , Hisao Ishibuchi

One of the important issues in computer networks is "Load Balancing" which leads to efficient use of the network resources. To achieve a balanced network it is necessary to find different routes between the source and destination. In the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-10-27 Mehdi Kashefikia , Nasser Nematbakhsh , Reza Askari Moghadam

In this study, we synthesize a novel dynamical approach for ant colonies enabling them to migrate to new nest sites in a self-organizing fashion. In other words, we realize ant colony migration as a self-organizing phenotype-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Matin Macktoobian

An automated sizing approach for analog circuits using evolutionary algorithms is presented in this paper. A targeted search of the search space has been implemented using a particle generation function and a repair-bounds function that has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Ria Rashid , Gopavaram Raghunath , Vasant Badugu , Nandakumar Nambath

Most research on adaptive decision-making takes a strategy-first approach, proposing a method of solving a problem and then examining whether it can be implemented in the brain and in what environments it succeeds. We present a method for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Peter Kvam , Joseph Cesario , Jory Schossau , Heather Eisthen , Arend Hintze

In this paper we describe a novel local algorithm for large statistical swarms using "harmonic attractor dynamics", by means of which a swarm can construct harmonics of the environment. This in turn allows the swarm to approximately…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Subhrajit Bhattacharya

Interaction between users in online social networks plays a key role in social network analysis. One on important types of social group is full connected relation between some users, which known as clique structure. Therefore finding a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Mohammad Soleimani-Pouri , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammad Reza Meybodi

Swarm robotics is a promising approach for the coordination of large numbers of robots. While previous studies have shown that evolutionary robotics techniques can be applied to obtain robust and efficient self-organized behaviors for robot…

In this short note we propose using agentic swarms of virtual labs as a model of an AI Science Community. In this paradigm, each particle in the swarm represents a complete virtual laboratory instance, enabling collective scientific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ulisses Braga-Neto

Distributed search problems are ubiquitous in Artificial Life (ALife). Many distributed search problems require identifying a rare and previously unseen event and producing a rapid response. This challenge amounts to finding and removing an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-02-25 Melanie Moses , Soumya Banerjee