Present State of Swarm Intelligence and Future Directions

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Key Terms in this Chapter

Objective Function: The function, which is optimized within an optimization approach and the related problem.

Artificial Intelligence: (1) A term describing the feature, function or characteristic of computer systems or machines trying to simulate human-thinking behavior or human intelligence. (2) A field of the Computer Science, which is based on research studies or developments about providing intelligent systems simulating the human-thinking behavior or human intelligence.

Solution Space: The space of all potential solutions for a problem.

Pseudo-Code: A program flow defining a specific algorithm via linguistic and half-mathematical descriptions.

Optimization: The mathematical approach for finding the most appropriate solution for a problem function having some pre-determined constraints.

Swarm Intelligence: Some kind of intelligence defining collective behaviors of swarms in the nature, or artificial self-organized systems in an algorithm.

Benchmark Function: The function, which can be used to test performance of any optimization approach and the related problem.