Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence 5th International Wor

ANTS – The International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence is now at its ?fth edition. The series started in 1998 with the - ganization of ANTS 1998. At that time the goal was to gather in a common meeting those researchers intere

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Marco Dorigo Luca Maria Gambardella Mauro Birattari Alcherio Martinoli Riccardo Poli Thomas Stützle (Eds.)

Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006 Brussels, Belgium, September 4 – 7, 2006 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Marco Dorigo Mauro Birattari Thomas Stützle IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F. Roosevelt 50, CP 194/6, 1050 Brussels, Belgium E-mail: {mdorigo,mbiro,stuetzle}@ulb.ac.be Luca Maria Gambardella IDSIA, USI-SUPSI Galleria 2, 6928 Manno-Lugano, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Alcherio Martinoli SWIS, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne BC 210, Station 14, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: alcherio.martinoli@epfl.ch Riccardo Poli University of Essex, Department of Computer Science Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

ANTS – The International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence is now at its fifth edition. The series started in 1998 with the organization of ANTS 1998. At t