Stigmergic Optimization
Editors: Abraham, Ajith, Grosan, Crina, Ramos, Vitorino (Eds.)
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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.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Stigmergic Optimization: Inspiration, Technologies and Perspectives
Pages 1-24
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Stigmergic Autonomous Navigation in Collective Robotics
Pages 25-63
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A General Approach to Swarm Coordination using Circle Formation
Pages 65-84
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Stigmergic Navigation for Multi-Agent Teams in Complex Environments
Pages 85-116
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Physically Realistic Self-assembly Simulation System
Pages 117-130
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Stigmergic Optimization
- Editors
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- Ajith Abraham
- Crina Grosan
- Vitorino Ramos
- Series Title
- Studies in Computational Intelligence
- Series Volume
- 31
- Copyright
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-34690-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-540-34690-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-34689-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-07106-5
- Series ISSN
- 1860-949X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 299
- Topics
