Table 1 Social interaction of the eight swarm intelligence categories as organized by Mamei et al. (Mamei et al. 2006)
From: Uncovering the social interaction network in swarm intelligence algorithms
Name | Inspiration | Heuristic | Communication | Social interaction | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Quorum | Bacteria | Decision-making | Direct | Triggered based on the passively perceived current arrangement of their local environment | BSO (Ali and Abd-Elazim 2012) |
Embryogenesis | Cells (Lawrence 1992) | Self-assembling | Direct | Triggered based on the passively perceived markers of social interaction diffused in the environment | |
Molding | Slime mold amoebas (Schmickl and Crailsheim 2007) | Swarm coordinated aggregation | Direct | Passively perceived markers of social interaction they diffuse in the environment | Graduate Routing (Poor 2001) |
Flocking | Birds (Kennedy and Eberhart 2001) | Swarm coordinated motion | Direct | Continuously self-propel based on the current arrangement of their passively perceived environment | |
Brood sorting | Worker ants (Bonabeau et al. 1999) | Sorting of items | Indirect | Triggered based on the actively found current arrangement of their local environment | SMOA (Monismith and Mayfield 2008) |
Nest Building | Termites (Dynamic Concepts 2014) | Coordinated construction of complex structures | Indirect | Triggered based on the actively found markers of social interaction left in the environment | MBO (Abbass 2001) |
Foraging | Ants (Bonabeau et al. 1999) | Coordinated exploration of the environment | Indirect | Continuously self-propel based on the actively found markers of social reinforcement left in the environment | ACO (Dorigo and Di Caro 1999) |
Web Weaving | Spiders (Bourjot et al. 2003) | Coordinated construction of complex structures | Indirect | Continuously self-propel based on the actively found current arrangement of their local environment | RIO (Havens et al. 2008) |