Summary

Swarm Intelligence

The collective behaviour of decentralised, self-organised systems, natural or artificial. SI systems are typically made up of a population of simple agents interacting locally with one another and with their environment. The resulting effect is that the ‘colony’ exhibits substantially more complex intelligent behaviour than the individual agents are capable of. Examples: ants building structures, birds flocking for protection, bees searching for new hivelocations. SI is a sub-group of AI.