Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving
systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents …

From the Publisher: This book provides a detailed look at models of social insect behavior
and how to apply these models in the design of complex systems. The book shows how …

Swarm intelligence is regarded as the integration of mechanisms from computer science, the
artificial intelligence, and biology. Over millions of years, biological systems have solved …

Swarm intelligence is a modern arti? cial intelligence discipline that is c-cerned with the
design of multiagent systems with applications, eg, in-timization and in robotics. The design …

A long time ago, people discovered the variety of the interesting insect or animal behaviors
in the nature. A flock of birds sweeps across the sky. A group of ants forages for food. A …

The complex and often coordinated behavior of swarms fascinates not only biologists but
also computer scientists. Bird flocking and fish schooling are impressive examples of …

Standard approaches to understanding swarms rely on inspiration from biology and are
generally covered by the term “biomimetics”. This book focuses on a different …

A swarm is a large number of homogenous, simple agents interacting locally among
themselves, and their environment, with no central control to allow a global interesting …

Swarm intelligence Page 1 Even with today’s ever-increasing com- puting power, there are still
many types of problems that are very difficult to solve. Particularly, combinatorial opti- mization …

Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems,
natural or artificial. SI systems are typically made up of a population of simple agents …