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Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems
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SWARM INTELLIGENCE: FROM NATURAL TO ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS by Eric Bonabeau, Marco Dorigo, and Guy Theraulaz Oxford University Press, 1999, 307 pp.
Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems is a fascinating survey of a new approach to artificial intelligence inspired by and modeled on the behavior of social insects. This technique uses "autonomy, emergence, and distributed functioning" in place of "control, preprogramming, and centralization" (p.xi). The idea here is that complex structures emerge from the simple behaviors of a large number of interacting individuals. Swarm intelligence refers to the intelligent behavior emerging from these swarms of individuals. Each …
