Overview

Biologists studied the behavior of social insects for a long time. After millions of years of evolution all these species have developed incredible solutions for a wide range of problems. The intelligent solutions to problems naturally emerge from the self-organization and indirect communication of these individuals. Indirect interactions occur between two individuals when one of them modifies the environment and the other responds to the new environment at a later time. Such an interaction is an example of ‘stigmergy’. This book deals with the application of stigmergy for a variety of optimization problems. This volume comprises 12 chapters including an introductory chapter giving the fundamental definitions, inspirations and some research challenges. Important features include a detailed overview of all the stigmergic optimization paradigms, excellent coverage of timely, advanced stigmergic optimization topics, state-of-the-art theoretical research and application developments and chapters authored by pioneers in the field. Academics, scientists as well as engineers engaged in research, development and application of stigmergic optimization will find the comprehensive coverage of this book invaluable.

Full Product Details

Author:   Ajith Abraham ,  Crina Grosan ,  Vitorino Ramos
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2006
Volume:   31
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.557kg
ISBN:  

9783642071065

ISBN 10:   3642071066
Pages:   299
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Stigmergic Optimization: Inspiration, Technologies and Perspectives.- Stigmergic Autonomous Navigation in Collective Robotics.- A General Approach to Swarm Coordination using Circle Formation.- Stigmergic Navigation for Multi-Agent Teams in Complex Environments.- Physically Realistic Self-assembly Simulation System.- Gliders and Riders: A Particle Swarm Selects for Coherent Space-Time Structures in Evolving Cellular Automata.- Termite: A swarm intelligent routing algorithm for mobilewireless Ad-Hoc networks.- Stochastic Diffusion Search: Partial Function Evaluation In Swarm Intelligence Dynamic Optimisation.- Linear Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization.- Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimizers: A Powerful and Promising Approach.- Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms with Adaptive Simulated Annealing.- Swarm Intelligence: Theoretical Proof That Empirical Techniques are Optimal.

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions