Swarm-intelligence-based and bio-inspired algorithms form a hot topic in the developments of new algorithms inspired by nature. These nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms can be based on swarm intelligence, biological systems, physical and chemical systems. Therefore, these algorithms can be called swarm-intelligence-based, bio-inspired, physicsand chemistry-based, depending on the sources ...

Nature-inspiredmetaheuristic algorithms have become powerful and popular in computational intelligence and many applications. There are some important developments in recent years, and this special issue aims to provide a timely review of such developments, including ant colony optimization, bat algorithm, cuckoo search, particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithms, support vector machine, n...

Swarm intelligence is an important concept in artificial intelligence and computer science with emergent properties. The essential idea of swarm intelligence algorithms is to employ many simple agents applying almost no rule which in turn leads to an emergent global behavior. In this paper, we will introduce some of the most famous bio-mimicry algorithms and discuss their applications as well a...

The growing complexity of real-world problems has motivated computer scientists to search for efficient problem-solving methods. Evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence meta-heuristics are outstanding examples that nature has been an unending source of inspiration. The behaviour of bees, bacteria, glow-worms, fireflies, slime moulds, cockroaches, mosquitoes and other organisms have insp...

The diversity and applicability of swarm intelligence is increasing everyday in the fields of science and engineering. Swarm intelligence gives the features of the dynamic features optimization concept. We have used swarm intelligence for the process of feature optimization and feature selection for content-based image retrieval. The performance of content-based image retrieval faced the proble...

The research field of swarm intelligence contains various algorithms inspired from the particular survival skills of the creatures in Mother Nature. Many researchers utilize these methods to solve problems in engineering and financial fields. In this review, the concept of four swarm intelligence methods, including Bat Algorithm (BA), Evolved Bat Algorithm (EBA), Cat Swarm Optimization (CSO), a...

In this work, a novel approach of merging two swarm intelligence algorithms is considered – one mimicking the behaviour of ants foraging (Stochastic Diffusion Search [5]) and the other algorithm simulating the behaviour of birds flocking (Particle Swarm Optimisation [17]). This hybrid algorithm is assisted by a mechanism inspired from the behaviour of skeletal muscles activated by motor neurons...

So far various methods for optimization presented and one of most popular of them are optimization algorithms based on swarm intelligence and also one of most successful of them is Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Prior some efforts by applying fuzzy logic for improving defects of PSO such as trapping in local optimums and early convergence has been done. Moreover to overcome the problem of i...

This chapter introduces a swarm intelligence-inspired approach for target allocation in large teams of autonomous robots. For this purpose, the Distributed Bees Algorithm (DBA) was proposed and developed by the authors. The algorithm allows decentralized decision-making by the robots based on the locally available information, which is an inherent feature of animal swarms in nature. The algorit...

Swarm intelligence (SI) is based on collective behavior of selforganized systems. Typical swarm intelligence schemes include Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony System (ACS), Stochastic Diffusion Search (SDS), Bacteria Foraging (BF), the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), and so on. Besides the applications to conventional optimization problems, SI can be used in controlling robots and unma...