{"product_id":"9783642173899","title":"Handbook of Swarm Intelligence: Concepts, Principles and Applications","description":"\u003ch1\u003eHandbook of Swarm Intelligence: Concepts, Principles and Applications\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePanigrahi, Bijaya Ketan; Shi, Yuhui; Lim, Meng-Hiot\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom nature, we observe swarming behavior in the form of ant colonies, bird flocking, animal herding, honey bees, swarming of bacteria, and many more.  It is only in recent years that researchers have taken notice of such natural swarming systems as culmination of some form of innate collective intelligence, \u003ci\u003ealbeit\u003c\/i\u003e swarm intelligence (SI) - a metaphor that inspires a myriad of computational problem-solving techniques.  In computational intelligence, swarm-like algorithms have been successfully applied to solve many real-world problems in engineering and sciences. This handbook volume serves as a useful foundational as well as consolidatory state-of-art collection of articles in the field from various researchers around the globe.  It has a rich collection of contributions pertaining to the theoretical and empirical study of single and multi-objective variants of swarm intelligence based algorithms like \u003ci\u003eparticle swarm optimization\u003c\/i\u003e (PSO), \u003ci\u003eant colony optimization\u003c\/i\u003e (ACO), \u003ci\u003ebacterial foraging optimization algorithm\u003c\/i\u003e (BFOA), \u003ci\u003ehoney bee social foraging algorithms\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eharmony search\u003c\/i\u003e (HS).  With chapters describing various applications of SI techniques in real-world engineering problems, this handbook can be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners, giving an in-depth flavor of what SI is capable of achieving.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2011-01-19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783642173899\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-642-17390-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 544.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Berlin Heidelberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45582171570316,"sku":"9783642173899","price":197.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783642173899.jpg?v=1767199394","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783642173899","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}