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Zusatztext " The 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 Klappentext This is the first book in the Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of complexity since Oxford took over the publishing of this series from Addison-Wesley. This book presents a unique combination of biology and computer science (including artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, information display, and computer graphics), modelling the mechanisms underlying collective behaviour in social insects. Swarm intelligence is a new and rapidly developing subfield of artificial intelligence, and this book will be one of the central documents of this emerging subfield. The book should apeal to a broadly interdisciplinary audience of modellers, engineers, neuroscientists, and computer scientists, as well as some biologists and ecologists. Zusammenfassung Presents a combination of biology and computer science (including artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, information display, and computer graphics), modelling the mechanisms underlying collective behaviour in social insects. This work talks about swarm intelligence, a subfield of artificial intelligence. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Ant Foraging Behavior, Combinatorial Optimization, and Routing in Communications Networks 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
