Swarm Intelligence Introduction and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Blum, Christian (Editor), Merkle, Daniel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Natural Computing Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer simulation.; Operations research.; Management science.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computation by Abstract Devices.; Simulation and Modeling.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

The laws that govern the collective behavior of social insects, flocks of birds, or fish schools continue to mesmerize researchers. While individuals are rather unsophisticated, in cooperation they can solve complex tasks, a prime example being the ability of ant colonies to find shortest paths betw...

Table of Contents:

• Biological Foundations of Swarm Intelligence
• Swarm Intelligence in Optimization
• Swarm Robotics
• Routing Protocols for Next-Generation Networks Inspired by Collective Behaviors of Insect Societies: An Overview
• Applications
• Evolution, Self-organization and Swarm Robotics
• Particle Swarms for Dynamic Optimization Problems
• An Agent-Based Approach to Self-organized Production
• Organic Computing and Swarm Intelligence.