Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity)

This is the first book in the Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of complexity since Oxford took over the publishing of this series from Addison-Wesley. This book presents a unique combination of biology and computer science (including artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, information display, and computer graphics), modelling the mechanisms underlying collective behaviour in social insects. Swarm intelligence is a new and rapidly developing subfield of artificial intelligence, and this book will be one of the central documents of this emerging subfield. The book should apeal to a broadly interdisciplinary audience of modellers, engineers, neuroscientists, and computer scientists, as well as some biologists and ecologists.