Swarm Intelligence

• Evolutionary Computation: Focused on evolutionary algorithms.
• Swarm Intelligence (SI): Studies collective behavior of social animals/insects for algorithm design.
• Swarm: Group of agents interacting via simple rules to achieve complex goals.
• Inspiration:
  • Ants, bees, termites.
  • Tasks like food search, nest building, colony defense.
  • Behaviors: pheromone trails, communication, cooperation.
• SI Algorithms:
  • Emulate social animal behavior.
  • Use simple rules to coordinate agents.
  • Solve optimization problems (e.g., shortest path, function optimization).
• Main SI Algorithms:
  • Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
  • Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
  • Artificial Bee Colony (ABC)
• Applications:
  • Data clustering
  • Image processing
  • Network routing