Handbook of Swarm Intelligence Concepts, Principles and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Panigrahi, Bijaya Ketan (Editor), Shi, Yuhui (Editor), Lim, Meng-Hiot (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, 8
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

From nature, we observe swarming behavior in the form of ant colonies, bird flocking, animal herding, honey bees, swarming of bacteria, and many more.  It is only in recent years that researchers have taken notice of such natural swarming systems as culmination of some form of innate collective inte...

Table of Contents:

• Part A: Particle Swarm Optimization
• Part B: Bee Colony Optimization
• Part C: Ant  Colony Optimization.-Part D: Other Swarm Techniques.