Table of Contents

Biological Foundations of Swarm Intelligence.- Swarm Intelligence in Optimization.- Swarm Robotics.- Routing Protocols for Next-Generation Networks Inspired by Collective Behaviors of Insect Societies: An Overview.- Applications.- Evolution, Self-organization and Swarm Robotics.- Particle Swarms for Dynamic Optimization Problems.- An Agent-Based Approach to Self-organized Production.- Organic Computing and Swarm Intelligence.

Reviews

From the reviews: "This book, edited by Christian Blum and Daniel Merkle, gives us the state of the art in this new and intriguing field of research, through a collection of eight chapters written by leading experts in the field. … Overall, this book is successful in presenting how naturally inspired design differs from traditional approaches … . an interesting read for researchers, to learn the latest developments in this fascinating field, and also for beginners, to get an introduction to swarm intelligence topics and applications." (Alessandro Berni, ACM Computing Reviews, June, 2009)