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.
