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 that time the goal was to gather in a common
meeting those researchers interested in ant colony optimization: more than 50
researchers from around the world joined for the first time in Brussels, Belgium,
to discuss ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence related research. A
selection of the best papers presented at the workshop was published as a special
issue of the Future Generation Computer Systems journal (Vol. 16, No. 8, 2000).
Two years later, ANTS 2000, organized again in Brussels, attracted more than
70 participants. The 41 extended abstracts presented as talks or posters at the
workshop were collected in a booklet distributed to participants, and a selection
of the best papers was published as a special section of the IEEE Transactions
on Evolutionary Computation