Swarm Intelligence [electronic resource] : 9th International Conference, ANTS 2014, Brussels, Belgium, September 10-12, 2014. Proceedings / edited by Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Simon Garnier, Heiko Hamann, Marco Montes de Oca, Christine Solnon, Thomas Stützle.

A Novel Ant Colony Algorithm for Building Neural Network Topologies -- An ACO Algorithm to Solve an Extended Cutting Stock Problem for Scrap Minimization in a Bar Mill -- An Experiment in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms -- Angle Modulated Particle Swarm Variants -- Ant Colony Optimization on a Budget of 1000 -- Application of Supervisory Control Theory to Swarms of e-puck and Kilobot Robots -- Can Frogs Find Large Independent Sets in a Decentralized Way? Yes They Can! -- Diversity Rate of Change Measurement for Particle Swarm Optimizers -- Evolutionary Swarm Robotics: Genetic Diversity, Task-allocation and Task-switching -- Influencing a Flock via Ad Hoc Teamwork -- MACOC: A Medoid-based ACO Clustering Algorithm -- Particle Swarm Convergence: Standardized Analysis and Topological Influence -- Scheduling a Galvanizing Line by Ant Colony Optimization -- SRoCS: Leveraging Stigmergy on a Multi-robot Construction Platform for Unknown Environments -- Swarm in a Fly Bottle: Feedback-based Analysis of Self-organizing Temporary Lock-ins -- Temporal Task Allocation in Periodic Environments -- Towards a Cognitive Design Pattern for Collective Decision-making -- Short Papers -- A Novel Competitive Quantum-behaviour Evolutionary Multi-swarm Optimizer Algorithm Based on CUDA Architecture Applied to Constrained Engineering Design -- Cooperative Object Recognition: Behaviours of a Artificially Evolved Swarm -- Emergent Diagnoses from a Collective of Radiologists: Algorithmic versus Social Consensus Strategies -- Foraging Agent Swarm Optimization with Applications in Data Clustering -- GPU Implementation of Food-foraging Problem for Evolutionary Swarm Robotics Systems -- Nature-inspired Swarm Robotics Algorithms for Prioritized Foraging -- Particle Swarm Optimisation with Enhanced Memory Particles -- Sorting in Swarm Robots Using Communication-based Cluster Size Estimation -- Using Fluid Neural Networks to Create Dynamic Neighborhood Topologies in Particle Swarm Optimization -- Extended Abstracts -- A Low-cost Real-time Tracking Infrastructure for Ground-based Robot Swarms -- A New Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm: Three Bound Ant System -- An Adaptive Bumble Bees Mating Optimization Algorithm for the Hierarchical Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem -- Gene Expression in DNA Microarrays: A classification problem using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm -- Morphology Learning via MDL and Ants -- Parallelizing Solution Construction in ACO for GPUs -- Solving Resource-constraint Project Scheduling Problems based on ACO algorithms.