Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity)

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Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity) ISBN  0195131584 Release Date  27 August 1999 Category  Artificial Intelligence Tags  swarm,   0195131584,   particle swarm,   natural,   "swarm intelligence",   arm,   "swarm",   complex,   paricle swarm optimisation,   particle swarm optimization,   lex,   swarm intelligent,   This book @Amazon  View Tools Google Search Web flazx.com

Description Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents, this intelligence lies in the networks of interactions among individuals and between individuals and the environment. A fascinating subject, social insects are also a powerful metaphor for artificial intelligence, and the problems they solve--finding food, dividing labor among nestmates, building nests, responding to external challenges--have important counterparts in engineering and computer science. 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 these models replace an emphasis on control, preprogramming, and centralization with designs featuring autonomy, emergence, and distributed functioning. These designs are proving immensely flexible and robust, able to adapt quickly to changing environments and to continue functioning even when individual elements fail. In particular, these designs are an exciting approach to the tremendous growth of complexity in software and information. Swarm Intelligence draws on up-to-date research from biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, and computer graphics, and each chapter is organized around a particular biological example, which is then used to develop an algorithm, a multiagent system, or a group of robots. The book will be an invaluable resource for a broad range of disciplines. Other books on Artificial Intelligence Tools and Applications with Artificial Intelligence (Studies in Computational Intelligence) Robust Intelligent Systems Pattern Recognition, Second Edition Pattern Recognition Technologies and Applications: Recent Advances Automatic Speech Recognition on Mobile Devices and over Communication Networks (Advances in Pattern Recognition) Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Problem Solving Techniques Adaptive Web Sites: A Knowledge Extraction from Web Data Approach - Volume 170 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Essays Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) Fundamentals of the New Artificial Intelligence: Neural, Evolutionary, Fuzzy and More (Texts in Computer Science) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2007,Valpariso, Chile, November ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence: 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2007, Salamanca, Spain, November ... Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) Expert Systems in Chemistry Research Toward Artificial Sapience: Principles and Methods for Wise Systems Biologically Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games Character Recognition Systems: A Guide for Students and Practitioners