Inspiration for optimization from social insect behaviour
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- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 406 (6791) , 39-42
- https://doi.org/10.1038/35017500
Abstract
Research in social insect behaviour has provided computer scientists with powerful methods for designing distributed control and optimization algorithms. These techniques are being applied successfully to a variety of scientific and engineering problems. In addition to achieving good performance on a wide spectrum of ‘static’ problems, such techniques tend to exhibit a high degree of flexibility and robustness in a dynamic environment.Keywords
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