

Session SIS-1: Particle Swarm Optimization
Wednesday, April 1, 8:30AM-10:30AM, Room: Hermitage B, Chair: Ying Tan, Peking University, China
| 8:30AM | Particle Swarm with Graphics Hardware Acceleration and Local Pattern Search on Bound Constrained Problems [#22009] |
| Weihang Zhu and James Curry | |
| Lamar University, United States | |
| 8:54AM | Concentric Spatial Extension Based Particle Swarm Optimization Inspired by Brood Sorting in Ant Colonies [#22010] |
| Junqi Zhang, Ying Tan and Xingui He | |
| Peking University, China | |
| 9:18AM | Local Optima Avoidable Particle Swarm Optimization [#22019] |
| S. M. A. Salehizadeh, P. Yadmellat and M. B. Menhaj | |
| Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran | |
| 9:42AM | A Cooperative Combinatorial Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Side-chain Packing [#22037] |
| Grecia Lapizco-Encinas, Carl Kingsford and James Reggia | |
| University of Maryland, United States | |
| 10:06AM | Information Sharing Strategy Among Particles in Particle Swarm Optimization Using Laplacian Operator [#22041] |
| Jagdish Chand Bansal, Kusum Deep, Kalyan Veeramachaneni and Lisa Osadciw | |
| Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India; Syracuse University, Syracuse NY, United States |
Session SIS-2: Particle Swarm Optimization
Wednesday, April 1, 11:00AM-1:00PM, Room: Hermitage B, Chair: Girma Tewolde, Kettering University, USA
| 11:00AM | Particle Swarm Optimizer for Variable Weighting in Clustering High-dimensional Data [#22014] |
| Yanping Lu, Shengrui Wang, Shaozi Li and Changle Zhou | |
| University of Sherbrooke, Canada; Xiamen University, China | |
| 11:24AM | Text Clustering via Particle Swarm Optimization [#22020] |
| Yanping Lu, Shengrui Wang, Shaozi Li and Changle Zhou | |
| University of Sherbrooke, Canada; Xiamen University, China | |
| 11:48AM | An Agent Based Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization - APPSO [#22028] |
| Yann Lorion, Tjorben Bogon, Ingo J. Timm and Oswald Drobnik | |
| Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| 12:12PM | Multi-Swarm Parallel PSO: Hardware Implementation [#22031] |
| Girma Tewolde, Darrin Hanna and Richard Haskell | |
| Kettering University, United States; Oakland University, United States | |
| 12:36PM | Enhancing Performance of PSO with Automatic Parameter Tuning Technique [#22032] |
| Girma Tewolde, Darrin Hanna and Richard Haskell | |
| Kettering University, United States; Oakland University, United States |
Session SIS-3: Theory and Applications of Swarm Intelligence
Wednesday, April 1, 2:00PM-4:00PM, Room: Hermitage B, Chair: Biswanath Samanta, Villanova University, USA
| 2:00PM | Particle Swarm Optimization for Chaotic System Parameter Estimation [#22018] |
| Biswanath Samanta | |
| Villanova University, United States | |
| 2:24PM | Swarm Intelligence Managed UWB Waveform and Cognitive Sensor Network Protocol [#22036] |
| Rajani Muraleedharan, Lisa Osadciw and Weihua Gao | |
| Syracuse University, United States | |
| 2:48PM | Modeling Self-Organized Aggregation in Swarm Robotic Systems [#22033] |
| Levent Bayindir and Erol Sahin | |
| Middle East Technical University, Turkey | |
| 3:12PM | Flocking-based Distributed Terrain Coverage with Dynamically-formed Teams of Mobile Mini-robots [#22035] |
| Prithviraj Dasgupta, Ke Cheng and Li Fan | |
| University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States | |
| 3:36PM | Incorporating Swarm Behavior into the Adaptation Mechanism of an Order-Driven Artificial Financial Market [#22042] |
| Ashraf Abdelbar, Eskandar Tooma and Sherif Ragab | |
| American University in Cairo, Egypt |
Session SIS-4: Theory and Applications of Swarm Intelligence
Thursday, April 2, 8:30AM-10:30AM, Room: Hermitage B, Chair: Lisa Osadciw, Syracuse University, USA
| 8:30AM | Key Node Selection for Containing Infectious Disease Spread Using Particle Swarm Optimization [#22011] |
| Xiuju Fu | |
| Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore | |
| 8:54AM | Bounded Diameter Overlay Construction: A Self Organized Approach [#22022] |
| Amos Brocco, Fulvio Frapolli and Beat Hirsbrunner | |
| University of Fribourg, Switzerland | |
| 9:18AM | Achieving Spectrum Efficiency Through Signal Design for Ultra Wide Band Sensor Networks [#22038] |
| Weihua Gao, Kalyan Veeramachaneni and Lisa Osadciw | |
| Syracuse University, United States | |
| 9:42AM | A Novel UltraWide Band Locationing System Using Swarm Enabled Learning Approaches [#22040] |
| Weihua Gao, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Ganapathi Kamath and Lisa Osadciw | |
| Syracuse University, United States | |
| 10:06AM | Ant Colony Optimization for Power Efficient Routing in Manhattan and Non-Manhattan VLSI Architectures [#22043] |
| Tamanna Arora and Melanie Moses | |
| University of New Mexico, United States |
Session SIS-5: Swarm Intelligence
Thursday, April 2, 11:00AM-1:00PM, Room: Hermitage B, Chair: Prithviraj Dasgupta, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
| 11:00AM | Swarm Pattern Transformation Methodologies [#22016] |
| Blesson Varghese and Gerard McKee | |
| University of Reading, United Kingdom | |
| 11:24AM | Self-Synchronized Duty-Cycling for Mobile Sensor Networks with Energy Harvesting Capabilities: A Swarm Intelligence Study [#22026] |
| Hugo Hernandez, Christian Blum, Martin Middendorf, Kai Ramsch and Alexander Scheidler | |
| Univeristat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain; University of Leipzig, Germany | |
| 11:48AM | A Biologically-Inspired Distributed Clustering Algorithm [#22027] |
| Daniela Santos and Ana Bazzan | |
| UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |
| 12:12PM | Swarming-based Mobile Target Following Using Limited-Capability Mobile Mini-robots [#22039] |
| Li Fan, Prithviraj Dasgupta and Ke Cheng | |
| University of Nebraska, Omaha, United States |
IEEE SSCI 2009 March 30 – April 2, 2009 Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville, TN, USA