(Ebook) Applications of Swarm Intelligence by Louis P. Walters ISBN 9781617288135, 1617288136

(Ebook) Applications of Swarm Intelligence by Louis P. Walters ISBN 9781617288135, 1617288136

Swarm Intelligence (SI) describes the evolving collective intelligence of population/groups of autonomous agents with a low level of intelligence. The population of agents interacts with each other or their environment locally using decentralized and self-organizational aspects in their decision making. SI and related sub-methods that follow its principles are used for problem solving in a variety of areas, such as robotics and forecasting. This book discusses swarm intelligence techniques and fuzzy logic as useful tools for solving practical engineering problems and the utilization of a swarm intelligence algorithm to obtain the optimum neural network structure. Also explored is the application of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) methods to inverse heat radiation problems and PSO as a technique in computational electromagnetism problems.