Description: Swarm Intelligence : From Natural to Artificial Systems, Hardcover by Bonabeau, Eric; Theraulaz, Guy; Dorigo, Marco, ISBN 0195131584, ISBN-13 9780195131581, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Social 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. Th 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. Th will be an invaluable resource for a broad range of disciplines.
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Book Title: Swarm Intelligence : From Natural to Artificial Systems
Number of Pages: 322 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Swarm Intelligence : from Natural to Artificial Systems
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 1999
Subject: Machine Theory, Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.6 Oz
Author: Guy Theraulaz, Marco Dorigo, Eric Bonabeau
Subject Area: Computers
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity Ser.
Format: Hardcover
