Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems

by Eric Bonabeau, Marco Dorigo, Guy Theraulaz

Overview

This book provides a rigorous look at the mechanisms underlying collective behavior in social insects. The field is developing rapidly, and the book includes up-to-date research from biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, and computer graphics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198030157
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/23/1999
Series:	Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Santa Fe Institute

Research Associate with the Belgian Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique

French Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Table of Contents

Preface1. Introduction2. Ant Foraging Behavior, Combinatorial Optimization, and Routing in Communications Network3. Division of Labor and Task Allocation4. Cemetery Organization, Brood Sorting, Data Analysis and Graph Partitioning5. Self-Organization and Templates: Application to Data Analysis and Graph Partitioning6. Nest Building and Self-Assembling7. Cooperative Transport by Insects and Robots8. EpilogueBibliographyIndex