Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2008)

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Krasnogor, Natalio (Editor), Melián-Batista, María Belén (Editor), Pérez, José Andrés Moreno (Editor), Moreno-Vega, J. Marcos (Editor), Pelta, David Alejandro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 236
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Engineering design.; Robotics.; Automation.; Engineering Design.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Robotics and Automation.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

The inspiration from Biology and the Natural Evolution process has become a research area within computer science. For instance, the description of the artificial neuron given by McCulloch and Pitts was inspired from biological observations of neural mechanisms; the power of evolution in nature in t...