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Swarm Intelligent Systems


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English | PDF | 2006 | 199 Pages | ISBN : 3540338683 | 8.9 MB
Swarm intelligence is an innovative computational way to solving hard pr- lems. This discipline is inspired by the behavior of social insects such as ?sh schools and bird ?ocks and colonies of ants, termites, bees and wasps. In g- eral, this is done by mimicking the behavior of the biological creatures within their swarms and colonies. Particle swarm optimization, also commonly known as PSO, mimics the behaviorofaswarmofinsectsoraschoolof?sh.Ifoneoftheparticlediscovers a good path to food the rest of the swarm will be able to follow instantly even if they are far away in the swarm. Swarm behavior is modeled by particles in multidimensionalspacethathavetwocharacteristics:apositionandavelocity. Theseparticleswanderaroundthehyperspaceandrememberthebestposition that they have discovered. They communicate good positions to each other and adjust their own position and velocity based on these good positions. The ant colony optimization, commonly known as ACO, is a probabilistic technique for solving computational hard problems which can be reduced to ?ndingoptimalpaths.ACOisinspiredbythebehaviorofantsin?ndingshort paths from the colony nest to the food place. Ants have small brains and bad vision yet they use great search strategy. Initially, real ants wander randomly to ?nd food. They return to their colony while laying down pheromone trails. If other ants ?nd such a path, they are likely to follow the trail with some pheromone and deposit more pheromone if they eventually ?nd food.

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Swarm Intelligence in Data Mining


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English | PDF | 2006 | 275 Pages | ISBN : 3540349553 | 11.3 MB
Swarm Intelligence is an innovative distributed intelligent paradigm for solving optimization problems that originally took its inspiration from the biological examples by swarming, flocking and herding phenomena in vertebrates. Data Mining is an analytic process designed to explore large amounts of data in search of consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships between variables, and then to validate the findings by applying the detected patterns to new subsets of data.

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Swarm Intelligence for Multi-objective Problems in Data Mining


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English | PDF | 2009 | 296 Pages | ISBN : 3642036244 | 7.3 MB
The purpose of this book is to collect contributions that are at the intersection of multi-objective optimization, swarm intelligence (specifically, particle swarm optimization and ant colony optimization) and data mining. Such a collection intends to illustrate the potential of multi-objective swarm intelligence techniques in data mining, with the aim of motivating more researchers in evolutionary computation and machine learning to do research in this field.

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Swarm Intelligence Introduction and Applications


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English | PDF | 2008 | 283 Pages | ISBN : 3540740880 | 11.8 MB
Swarm intelligence is a modern arti?cial intelligence discipline that is c- cerned with the design of multiagent systems with applications, e.g., in – timization and in robotics. The design paradigm for these systems is fun- mentally di?erent from more traditional approaches. Instead of a sophisticated controller that governs the global behavior of the system, the swarm intelligence principle is based on many unsophisticated entities that cooperate in order to exhibit a desired behavior. Inspiration for the design of these systems is taken from the collective behavior of social insects such as ants, termites, bees, and wasps, as well as from the behavior of otheranimalsocietiessuchas?ocksofbirdsorschoolsof?sh.Coloniesofsocial insects have mesmerized researchers for many years. However, the principles that govern their behavior remained unknown for a long time. Even though the single members of these societies are unsophisticated individuals, they are able to achieve complex tasks in cooperation. Coordinated behavior emerges from relatively simple actions or interactions between the individuals.

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Multi-Objective Swarm Intelligent Systems Theory & Experiences


Free Download Multi-Objective Swarm Intelligent Systems: Theory & Experiences by Nadia Nedjah, Leandro Santos Coelho, Luiza Macedo Mourelle
English | PDF | 2010 | 228 Pages | ISBN : 3642051642 | 5.3 MB
The editors of this volume, Nadia Nedjah, Leandro dos Santos Coelho and Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, have done a superb job of assembling some of the most innovative and intriguing applications and additions to the methodology and theory of multi-objective swarm intelligence – the immitation of social swarms behaviors for the solution of optimization problems with respect to many criteria.

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Innovations in Swarm Intelligence


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English | PDF | 2009 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 3642042244 | 8.9 MB
Over the past two decades, swarm intelligence has emerged as a powerful approach to solving optimization as well as other complex problems. Swarm intelligence models are inspired by social behaviours of simple agents interacting among themselves as well as with the environment, e.g., flocking of birds, schooling of fish, foraging of bees and ants. The collective behaviours that emerge out of the interactions at the colony level are useful in achieving complex goals.

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Economic Simulations in Swarm Agent-Based Modelling and Object Oriented Programming


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English | PDF | 2000 | 315 Pages | ISBN : 0792386655 | 33.8 MB
Computer simulations of economic systems are slowly gaining ground within the economic profession. However, such a process is hindered by a lack of communication among researchers who do not share a common language. For its object-oriented structure and its versatility, Swarm has the necessary characteristics to become a credible universal language of agent-based simulations.

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