TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bonabeau,Eric
AU  - Dorigo,Marco
AU  - Theraulaz,Guy
TI  - Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems 
T2  - Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity
SN  - 0195131584
AV  - Q335 .B6633 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Swarm intelligence
KW  - Insect societies
KW  - Insects
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Biological models
KW  - Artificial intelligences
KW  - biologie
KW  - systeme multi-agent
KW  - intelligence artificielle
KW  - résolution problème
KW  - algorithme fourmi artificielle
KW  - intelligence en essaim
KW  - UXC: Artificial intelligence
N1  - BIBINDX; Ch. 1; Introduction --; Ch. 2; Ant Foraging Behavior, Combinatorial Optimization, and Routing in Communications Network --; Ch. 3; Division of Labor and Task Allocation --; Ch. 4; Cemetery Organization, Brood Sorting, Data Analysis, and Graph Partitioning --; Ch. 5; Self-Organization and Templates: Application to Data Analysis and Graph Partitioning --; Ch. 6; Nest Building and Self-Assembling --; Ch. 7; Cooperative Transport by Insects and Robots --; Ch. 8; Epilogue
N2  - "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."--Jacket
ER  -