Swarm Intelligence: 12th International Conference, ANTS 2020, Barcelona, Spain, October 26–28, 2020, Proceedings

The proceedings contain 28 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Swarm Intelligence. The topics include: Preface; a Blockchain-Controlled Physical Robot Swarm Communicating via an Ad-Hoc Network; grey Wolf, Firefly and Bat Algorithms: Three Widespread Algorithms that Do Not Contain Any Novelty; guerrilla Performance Analysis for Robot Swarms: Degrees of Collaboration and Chains of Interference Events; heterogeneous Response Intensity Ranges and Response Probability Improve Goal Achievement in Multi-agent Systems; huGoS: A Multi-user Virtual Environment for Studying Human–Human Swarm Intelligence; memory Induced Aggregation in Collective Foraging; modeling Pathfinding for Swarm Robotics; motion Dynamics of Foragers in Honey Bee Colonies; multi-robot Coverage Using Self-organized Networks for Central Coordination; robot Distancing: Planar Construction with Lanes; the Pi-puck Ecosystem: Hardware and Software Support for the e-puck and e-puck2; a New Approach for Making Use of Negative Learning in Ant Colony Optimization; zealots Attack and the Revenge of the Commons: Quality vs Quantity in the Best-of-n; autoMoDe-Arlequin: Neural Networks as Behavioral Modules for the Automatic Design of Probabilistic Finite-State Machines; coalition Formation Problem: A Group Dynamics Inspired Swarming Method; collective Gradient Perception in a Flocking Robot Swarm; fitting Gaussian Mixture Models Using Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization; Formation Control of UAVs and Mobile Robots Using Self-organized Communication Topologies; group-Size Regulation in Self-organized Aggregation in Robot Swarms; on the Effects of Minimally Invasive Collision Avoidance on an Emergent Behavior; set-Based Particle Swarm Optimization for Portfolio Optimization; ant Colony Optimization for Object-Oriented Unit Test Generation; branched Structure Formation in a Decentralized Flock of Wheeled Robots.