Swarm Intelligence
Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) agents, interacting locally with their environment, cause coherent functional global patterns to emerge. SI provides a basis with which it is possible to explore collective (or distributed) problem solving without centralized control or the provision of a global model.
One interesting swarm intelligent technique is the Ant Colony algorithm:
- Ants are behaviorally unsophisticated; collectively they perform complex tasks. Ants have highly developed sophisticated sign-based communication.
- Ants communicate using pheromones; trails are laid that can be followed by other ants.
- Routing Problem Ants drop different pheromones used to compute the "shortest" path from source to destination(s).
Read more about this topic: Lateral Computing, A Review of Lateral-computing Techniques
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