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by Eric Bonabeau (Author), Marco Dorigo (Author), Guy Theraulaz (Author) "Insects that live in colonies, ants, bees, wasps, and termites, have fascinated naturalists as well as poets for many years ..." (more)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Everything about Ant colony Optimisation, 21 Jul 2004
If you are into reinforcement learning and looking for an alternate meta heruistic try this book. This is one of the few books that you can find in this area. It gives a brief description of Ant colony optimisation which is an agent based optimisation method that is influenced from emergent behaviour of simple and individual ants in the nature. I was particularly interested with antnet routing algorithm which is explained in detail in one chapter.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great overview of swarms - good introduction, 6 Mar 2002
Very good introduction examines how swarm intelligence happens in the real world and then distills some of the processes that can be created to enable artificial swarms.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I don't understand it but..., 25 Jun 2004
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When I bought this book I was leafing through it and a colleague asked me "do you understand all that stuff?". Looking at a page of degree level maths formulas, I had to confess that I didn't but I did say "No, but it makes me look intelligent.".

This subject does interest me, but I did A-level maths a few years ago and it is difficult to follow some of the more complex algorithms because I'm a little rusty. However, the book is well written and covers the topic in a thorough and well organised way.

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