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Swarm intelligence : from natural to artificial systems

Title
  1. Swarm intelligence : from natural to artificial systems / Eric Bonabeau, Marco Dorigo, Guy Theraulaz.
Published by
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Author
  1. Bonabeau, Eric.

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Additional authors
  1. Dorigo, Marco.
  2. Theraulaz, Guy.
Description
  1. xii, 307 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. "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.
  2. 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.
  3. The book will be an invaluable resource for a broad range of disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.
Series statement
  1. Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity
Uniform title
  1. Proceedings volume in the Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity.
Subject
  1. Artificial intelligence
  2. Insect societies
  3. Insects > Psychology
  4. Biological models
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Ant Foraging Behavior, Combinatorial Optimization, and Routing in Communications Network -- Ch. 3. Division of Labor and Task Allocation -- Ch. 4. Cemetery Organization, Brood Sorting, Data Analysis, and Graph Partitioning -- Ch. 5. Self-Organization and Templates: Application to Data Analysis and Graph Partitioning -- Ch. 6. Nest Building and Self-Assembling -- Ch. 7. Cooperative Transport by Insects and Robots -- Ch. 8. Epilogue.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-296) and index.