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OverviewSocial insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents, this intelligence lies in the networks of interactions among individuals and between individuals and the environment. A fascinating subject, social insects are also a powerful metaphor for artificial intelligence, and the problems they solve--finding food, dividing labor among nestmates, building nests, responding to external challenges--have important counterparts in engineering and computer science. 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. 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. The book will be an invaluable resource for a broad range of disciplines. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eric Bonabeau (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute) , Marco Dorigo (Researcher, Researcher, Free University of Brussels) , Guy Theraulaz (Researcher, Researcher, CNRS, University Paul Sabatier)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Volume: No.1 Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780195131598ISBN 10: 0195131592 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 21 October 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface 1: Introduction 2: Ant Foraging Behavior, Combinatorial Optimization, and Routing in Communications Network 3: Division of Labor and Task Allocation 4: Cemetery Organization, Brood Sorting, Data Analysis, and Graph Partitioning 5: Self-Organization and Templates: Application to Data Analysis and Graph Partitioning 6: Nest Building and Self-Assembling 7: Cooperative Transport by Insects and Robots 8: Epilogue Bibliography IndexReviewsThe book is full of new ideas, new concepts produced by research direction that is at a rather early stage ... The book sums up a new, fascinating way of devloping algorithms, multi-agent systems and robot swarms based on examples of maybe the most successful social systems found on earth. That makes it well worth reading JASSS Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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