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What is Swarm Intelligence ?

Swarm Intelligence is becoming an active area of research that focuses on the study of different self-organizing processes in Nature and using their principles as an inspirational metaphor to propose novel solutions to different daunting classical scientific problems. The novelty comes from the fact that such systems lack one central complex controller, who normally co-ordinates/schedules different tasks in the system by virtue of its access to the global system state. On the contrary, swarm systems have simple entities that have only local knowledge but together they form an intelligent system. The researchers have applied the techniques to a large number of difficult optimization problems including traveling salesman, the quadratic assignment, scheduling, vehicle routing, routing in telecommunication networks (including ad-hoc networks) and in swarm robotics.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Models of the behavior of social insects or other animal societies that can stimulate new algorithmic approaches.

* Empirical and theoretical research in Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)

* Swarm robotics

* Emergent Coordination (coordination without coordinators)

* Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

* Swarm-inspired routing algorithms

* Application of swarm intelligence to real-world problems

* Multiagent Systems (MAS) inspired from swarm behavior

* Security systems based on swarm behavior

* Self-organized applications to Computer Science inspired from social animals

* Self-organization and Swarm Intelligence in business applications
Swarm Intelligence - 2005 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence