Incorporating Swarm Intelligence Into Computer AI

An anonymous reader writes "From optimizing truck delivery routes to inspiring nerve-cell-based cognition models, ant intelligence has arrived. From the Economist: 'In 1992 Dr. Dorigo and his group began developing Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO), an algorithm that looks for solutions to a problem by simulating a group of ants wandering over an area and laying down pheromones. ACO proved good at solving travelling-salesman-type problems. Since then it has grown into a whole family of algorithms, which have been applied to many practical questions. ... Ant-like algorithms have also been applied to the problem of routing information through communication networks. Dr. Dorigo and Gianni Di Caro, another researcher at IDSIA, have developed AntNet, a routing protocol in which packets of information hop from node to node, leaving a trace that signals the "quality" of their trip as they do so. Other packets sniff the trails thus created and choose accordingly. In computer simulations and tests on small-scale networks, AntNet has been shown to outperform existing routing protocols."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstor y%2F10%2F08%2F13%2F217237%2FIncorporating-Swarm-Intelligence-Into-Computer-AI" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Incorporating+Swarm+Intelligence+Into+ Computer+AI%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FayVgbH" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/13/217237/Incorporating-Swarm-Intelligence-Into-Computer-AI?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XyvGbb9PYd81VIBWFYakOJY2ahA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XyvGbb9PYd81VIBWFYakOJY2ahA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XyvGbb9PYd81VIBWFYakOJY2ahA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XyvGbb9PYd81VIBWFYakOJY2ahA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/cLdvVsOv60E" height="1" width="1"/

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