ping about swarm intelligence

[David Eric Smith]

Hi everybody,

One of the postdocs at the institute was asking me what is the state
of the art in ``swarm intelligence'': how much meaningful theory has
been built around it, what applications have been important, and
generally what are the metrics for its usefulness or identity as a
field.  

I think several FRIAMers have kept up to date on this, yes?  If you
could recommend either a current and good-quality technical review, or
an appropriate person to ask, I would be grateful and forward it
along.

Many thanks,

Eric Smith

[Parks, Raymond]

Eric Smith wrote:
...  If you
> could recommend either a current and good-quality technical review, or
> an appropriate person to ask, I would be grateful and forward it
> along.

   The latest conference on the subject was held in April of last year
<http://www.computelligence.org/sis/index.html>.
   Checking my library, I found the names John Arquilla (currently at
the Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the Naval Postgraduate
School) and David Ronfeldt (International Studies Group, Rand
Corporation) is common to most of my material on swarm intelligence.
   The book _Swarm_Intelligence_ was written by James Kennedy
(Department of Labor, but his web-site is at
<http://www.particleswarm.net/JK>) and Russel G. Eberhart (Purdue,
<http://www.engr.iupui.edu/~eberhart/>) with Yuhui Shi (Purdue and EDS,
<http://www.engr.iupui.edu/~shi/>).
   There is a company called Icosystem <http://www.icosystem.com/> out
of Cambridge that was founded by Eric Bonabeau who may be known to those
who attend meetings at SFI.  I know he came to the April 10-11, 2003,
BizNet meeting on terrorism.  Icosystem applies methodologies derived
from agent-based modeling, swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation,
and distributed computing to business questions (ant model comes to mind).

   I hope this helps.

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[Stephen Guerin]

Good suggestions, Ray.

Also, Marco Dorigo's site has good applied papers and review papers:
        http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/ACO/ACO.html

And, in a small way, we've been exploring whether or not there's a
self-organizing engine process going on in ant-foraging algorithms. As a
start we're looking for appropriate measures of work. We're not quite there
yet, but here's a recent paper that shows our direction:
        Measures of Work in Artificial Life:
        http://www.redfish.com/research/MeasuresOfWorkInALife_v1_1.pdf

Also, Alberto Donati just joined the FRIAM list. He was our resident expert
at BiosGroup. Perhaps he has some favorite links...

-Steve

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rcparks [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:06 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] ping about swarm intelligence
>
>
> Eric Smith wrote:
> ...  If you
> > could recommend either a current and good-quality technical review, or
> > an appropriate person to ask, I would be grateful and forward it
> > along.
>
>    The latest conference on the subject was held in April of last year
> <http://www.computelligence.org/sis/index.html>.
>    Checking my library, I found the names John Arquilla (currently at
> the Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the Naval Postgraduate
> School) and David Ronfeldt (International Studies Group, Rand
> Corporation) is common to most of my material on swarm intelligence.
>    The book _Swarm_Intelligence_ was written by James Kennedy
> (Department of Labor, but his web-site is at
> <http://www.particleswarm.net/JK>) and Russel G. Eberhart (Purdue,
> <http://www.engr.iupui.edu/~eberhart/>) with Yuhui Shi (Purdue and EDS,
> <http://www.engr.iupui.edu/~shi/>).
>    There is a company called Icosystem <http://www.icosystem.com/> out
> of Cambridge that was founded by Eric Bonabeau who may be known to those
> who attend meetings at SFI.  I know he came to the April 10-11, 2003,
> BizNet meeting on terrorism.  Icosystem applies methodologies derived
> from agent-based modeling, swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation,
> and distributed computing to business questions (ant model comes to mind).
>
>    I hope this helps.
>
> --
> Ray Parks                   [hidden email]
> IDART Project Lead          Voice:505-844-4024
> IORTA Department            Fax:[phone]
> http://www.sandia.gov/idart Pager:800-690-5288
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[David Eric Smith]

Thanks, Steve and Ray,

Eric