By Stefan Rummel 05/05/2008 Prof. Rudowsky CIS 9.5 Brooklyn College

Observing nature to find new solutions

 Observing behaviour of social insects  Living in swarms  Transfer behaviour to artificial models

Explaining swarm intelligence using ants as an example

 As an individual simple and helpless  As a group they form a collective intelligence  To solve complex problems

Definition of swarm intelligence? “Swarm intelligence (SI) is artificial intelligence based on the collective behavior of decentralized, self- organized systems”

Modelling swarm behaviour  Ants find the shortest, and fastest way to a food source  Using pheromones to communicate Food

 Marco Dorigo  Developed mathematical algorithm  With the help of computer simulation of artifical ant Modelling swarm behaviour for the „travelling salesman problem“

Wikipedia as an example of swarm behaviour

Collaborative Film Making Project „A swarm of Angels“  Fund  Film  Flow Towards open source, collaborative Media

Swarm intelligence and Robotics  Swarm-bot project  Robots using swarm behaviour  Search & Rescue

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