Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Simon Garnier, Heiko Hamann, Marco Montes de Oca, Christine Solnon, Thomas Stützle, Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Simon Garnier, Heiko Hamann, Marco Montes de Oca, Christine Solnon, and Thomas Stützle
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, held in Brussels, Belgium, in September 2014. This volume contains 17 full papers, 9 short papers, and 7 extended abstracts carefully selected out of 55 submissions. The papers cover empirical and theoretical research in swarm intelligence such as: behavioral models of social insects or other animal societies, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, swarm robotics systems.