Group Thinker: Researcher Gets $2.9 Million to Further Develop Swarm Intelligence
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 13:07
in Mathematics & Economics
Swarm intelligence is a branch of artificial intelligence that attempts to get computers and robots to mimic the highly efficient behavior of colony insects such as ants and bees. Ants, for example, use pheromone trails to mark the routes they use to find food. The more traversed trails develop an accumulation of pheromone that attracts new ants, whereas pheromones deposited on paths less traveled will evaporate over time. [More]