Swarm Intelligence

Swarm intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby collective behaviours of agents interacting locally with their environment cause coherent functional global patterns to emerge. SI allows collective or distributed problem solving without centralized control or a global model.

Autorentext
Russ Eberhart is Associate Dean of Research at Purdue School of Engineering and Technology in Indianapolis, IN. He is the author of Neural Network PC Tools (Academic Press), a leading book in the field of Neural Networks. Among his credits, he is the former President of the IEEE Neural Networks Council. Yuhui Shi received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Southeast University, China, in 1992. Since then, he has worked at several universities including the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, the Department of Computer Science, Australian Defense Force Academic, Canberra, Australia, the Department of Computer Science, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He is currently with Electronic Data Systems, Inc., Kokomo, Indiana, USA, as an Applied Specialist. His main interests include artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic systems and their industrial applications. Dr. Shi was a co-presenter of the tutorial, Introduction to Computation Intelligence, at the 1998 WCCI Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, and presented the tutorial, Evolutionary Computation and Fuzzy Systems, at the 1998 ANNIE Conference, St. Louis. He is the technical co-chair of 2001 Particle Swarm Optimization Workshop, Indianapolis, Indiana.James Kennedy is a social psychologist who works in survey methods at the US Department of Labor. He has conducted basic and applied research into social effects on cognition and attitude. Dr. Kennedy has worked with the particle swarm computer model of social influence in artificial communities since 1994, presenting research in both the computer-science and social-science publications.

Klappentext
Traditional methods for creating intelligent computational systems have
privileged private "internal" cognitive and computational processes. In
contrast, "Swarm Intelligence" argues that human
intelligence derives from the interactions of individuals in a social world
and further, that this model of intelligence can be effectively applied to
artificially intelligent systems. The authors first present the foundations of
this new approach through an extensive review of the critical literature in
social psychology, cognitive science, and evolutionary computation. They
then show in detail how these theories and models apply to a new
computational intelligence methodologyparticle swarmswhich focuses
on adaptation as the key behavior of intelligent systems. Drilling down
still further, the authors describe the practical benefits of applying particle
swarm optimization to a range of engineering problems. Developed by
the authors, this algorithm is an extension of cellular automata and
provides a powerful optimization, learning, and problem solving method.

This important book presents valuable new insights by exploring the
boundaries shared by cognitive science, social psychology, artificial life,
artificial intelligence, and evolutionary computation and by applying these
insights to the solving of difficult engineering problems. Researchers and
graduate students in any of these disciplines will find the material
intriguing, provocative, and revealing as will the curious and savvy
computing professional.

• Places particle swarms within the larger context of intelligent
  adaptive behavior and evolutionarycomputation.
• Describes recent results of experiments with the particle swarm
  optimization (PSO) algorithm
• Includes a basic overview of statistics to ensure readers can
  properly analyze the results of their own experiments using the
  algorithm.

• Support software

  Zusammenfassung
  "Well received the September UK Game industry show." --Recent publicity includes a mention in Visual Basic Design Magazine, June issue.

  Inhalt

  Introduction

  Part 1: Foundations
  Life and Intelligence
  Optimization by Trial and Error
  On our Nonexistence as Entities
  Evolutionary Computation Theory and Paradigms
  Humans - Actual, Imagined and Implied
  Thinking is Social

  Part 2: Particle Optimization and Collective Intelligence
  The Binary Particle Swarm
  Variations and Comparisons;
  Applications
  Implications and Speculations
  Conclusions