SIS 2009 Program

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