Dear Colleagues:

Seven recent works hybridizing novel algorithms in the Swarm Intelligence
area with applications in Pattern Recognition, Perception, Image
Processing, Image Analysis, Mathematical Morphology, Image Classification
and retrieval are now online. Keywords subject areas are: Swarm
Intelligence, Perception and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition,
Mathematical Morphology, Social Cognitive Maps, Social Foraging,
Self-Organization, Distributed Search, among others. For those following
research in similar areas or are somehow interest, here follows specific
links, as well as direct PDF links:

# Carlos Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos, Agostinho C. Rosa, Self-Regulated
Artificial Ant Colonies on Digital Image Habitats, accepted in WCLC-05, 2nd
World Congress on Lateral Computing, Springer-Verlag, LNCS Series,
Bangalore, India, 16-18 Dec., 2005.
Link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_65.html
PDF direct link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-WCLC05b.pdf

# Vitorino Ramos, Jonathan Campbell, John Slater, John Gillespie, Ivan F.
Bendezu and Fionn Murtagh, Swarming around Shellfish Larvae Images,
accepted in WCLC-05, 2nd World Congress on Lateral Computing,
Springer-Verlag, LNCS Series, Bangalore, India, 16-18 Dec., 2005.
Link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_53.html
PDF direct link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-WCLC05a.pdf

# Vitorino Ramos, Fernando Muge, Pedro Pina, Self-Organized Data and Image
Retrieval as a Consequence of Inter-Dynamic Synergistic Relationships in
Artificial Ant Colonies, in Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Ajith Abraham and Mario
Köppen (Eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Soft
Computing Systems - Design, Management and Applications, 2nd Int. Conf.
on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, IOS Press, Vol. 87, ISBN 1 5860 32976, pp.
500-509, Santiago, Chile, Dec. 2002.
Link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_39.html
PDF direct link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-HIS02.pdf

# Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa, Social Cognitive
Maps, Swarm Collective Perception and Distributed Search on Dynamic
Landscapes, submitted to Brains, Minds & Media, Journal of New Media in
Neural and Cognitive Science, NRW, Germany (2006).
Link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_58.html
PDF direct link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-BMM.pdf

# Vitorino Ramos, Self-Organizing the Abstract: Canvas as a Swarm Habitat
for Collective Memory, Perception and Cooperative Distributed Creativity,
in 1st Art & Science Symposium - Models to Know Reality, J. Rekalde, R.
Ibáñez and Á. Simó (Eds.), pp. 59, Facultad de Bellas Artes EHU/UPV,
Universidad del País Vasco, 11-12 Dec., Bilbao, Spain, 2003.
Link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_47.html
Link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/aswarm.html

# Vitorino Ramos, On the Implicit and on the Artificial - Morphogenesis and
Emergent Aesthetics in Autonomous Collective Systems, in ARCHITOPIA Book,
Art, Architecture and Science, INSTITUT D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, J.L. Maubant et
al. (Eds.), pp. 25-57, Chapter 2, ISBN 2905985631 - EAN 9782905985637,
France, Feb. 2002.
Link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_37.html
PDF direct link:
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-ARCHITOPIA.pdf

# Vitorino Ramos, Filipe Almeida, Artificial Ant Colonies in Digital Image
Habitats - A Mass Behaviour Effect Study on Pattern Recognition,
Proceedings of ANTS´2000 - 2nd International Workshop on Ant Algorithms
(From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants), Marco Dorigo, Martin Middendorf &
Thomas Stüzle (Eds.), pp. 113-116, Brussels, Belgium, 7-9 Sep. 2000.
Link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_29.html
PDF direct link: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-ANTS00.pdf