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Swarm Intelligence

From Natural to Artificial Systems

By: Eric Bonabeau,Marco Dorigo,Guy Theraulaz

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Swarm Intelligence

From Natural to Artificial Systems

By: Eric Bonabeau,Marco Dorigo,Guy Theraulaz

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. 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.

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Oxford University Press

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0198030150

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Self-Organization in Biological Systems

By: Scott Camazine,Jean-Louis Deneubourg,Nigel R. Franks,James Sneyd,Guy Theraulaz,Eric Bonabeau

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Self-Organization in Biological Systems

By: Scott Camazine,Jean-Louis Deneubourg,Nigel R. Franks,James Sneyd,Guy Theraulaz,Eric Bonabeau

The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns--phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries--a fertile new approach to understanding biological systems: the study of self-organization. This book, a primer on self-organization in biological systems for students and other enthusiasts, introduces readers to the basic concepts and tools for studying self-organization and then examines numerous examples of self-organization in the natural world. Self-organization refers to diverse pattern formation processes in the physical and biological world, from sand grains assembling into rippled dunes to cells combining to create highly structured tissues to individual insects working to create sophisticated societies. What these diverse systems hold in common is the proximate means by which they acquire order and structure. In self-organizing systems, pattern at the global level emerges solely from interactions among lower-level components. Remarkably, even very complex structures result from the iteration of surprisingly simple behaviors performed by individuals relying on only local information. This striking conclusion suggests important lines of inquiry: To what degree is environmental rather than individual complexity responsible for group complexity? To what extent have widely differing organisms adopted similar, convergent strategies of pattern formation? How, specifically, has natural selection determined the rules governing interactions within biological systems? Broad in scope, thorough yet accessible, this book is a self-contained introduction to self-organization and complexity in biology--a field of study at the forefront of life sciences research.

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Princeton University Press

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0691212929

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9780691212920

Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization

Methods and Case Studies

By: Johann Dréo,Alain Pétrowski,Patrick Siarry,Eric Taillard

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Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization

Methods and Case Studies

By: Johann Dréo,Alain Pétrowski,Patrick Siarry,Eric Taillard

Contains case studies from engineering and operations research Includes commented literature for each chapter

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540309667

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The Origin of Wealth

Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics

By: Eric D. Beinhocker

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The Origin of Wealth

Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics

By: Eric D. Beinhocker

Beinhocker has written this work in order to introduce a broad audience to what he believes is a revolutionary new paradigm in economics and its implications for our understanding of the creation of wealth. He describes how the growing field of complexity theory allows for evolutionary understanding of wealth creation, in which business designs co-evolve with the evolution of technologies and organizational innovations. In addition to giving his audience a tour of this field of complexity economics, he discusses its implications for real-world issues of business.

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Harvard Business Press

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157851777X

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Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling

With Applications for the Social Sciences

By: Eric Silverman

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Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling

With Applications for the Social Sciences

By: Eric Silverman

This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then demonstrates the growing popularity and relevance of these methods in the social sciences. Following an in-depth analysis of the potential impact of these methods on social science and social theory, the text provides substantive examples of the application of agent-based models in the field of demography. This work offers a unique combination of applied simulation work and substantive, in-depth philosophical analysis, and as such has potential appeal for specialist social scientists, complex systems scientists, and philosophers of science interested in the methodology of simulation and the practice of interdisciplinary computing research.

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3319724088

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Swarm Intelligence

From Natural to Artificial Systems

By: Eric Bonabeau,Marco Dorigo,Guy Theraulaz

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From Natural to Artificial Systems

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Oxford University Press

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Self-Organization in Biological Systems

By: Scott Camazine,Jean-Louis Deneubourg,Nigel R. Franks,James Sneyd,Guy Theraulaz,Eric Bonabeau

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By: Scott Camazine,Jean-Louis Deneubourg,Nigel R. Franks,James Sneyd,Guy Theraulaz,Eric Bonabeau

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Princeton University Press

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Swarm Intelligence

Swarm Intelligence

Self-Organization in Biological Systems

Self-Organization in Biological Systems

Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization

Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization

The Origin of Wealth

The Origin of Wealth

Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling

Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling

Swarm Intelligence

Swarm Intelligence

Self-Organization in Biological Systems

Self-Organization in Biological Systems

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