Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems [1 ed.] 9780195131581, 0-19-513158-4

Social insects - ants, bees, termites, and wasps - can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated

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Table of contents :
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
CHAPTER 1 Introduction......Page 14
CHAPTER 2 Ant Foraging Behavior, Combinatorial Optimization, and Routing in Communications Network......Page 38
CHAPTER 3 Division of Labor and Task Allocation......Page 122
CHAPTER 4 Cemetery Organization, Brood Sorting, Data Analysis, and Graph Partitioning......Page 162
CHAPTER 5 Self-Organization and Templates: Application to Data Analysis and Graph Partitioning......Page 196
CHAPTER 6 Nest Building and Self-Assembling......Page 218
CHAPTER 7 Cooperative Transport by Insects and Robots......Page 266
CHAPTER 8 Epilogue......Page 284
Bibliography......Page 288
A......Page 310
B......Page 312
E......Page 313
I......Page 314
M......Page 315
P......Page 316
R......Page 317
S......Page 318
T......Page 319
W......Page 320

Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems [1 ed.]
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