Incorporating Swarm Intelligence Into Computer AI

An anonymous reader writes "From optimizing truck delivery routes to inspiring nerve-cell-based cognition models, ant intelligence has arrived. From the Economist: 'In 1992 Dr. Dorigo and his group began developing Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO), an algorithm that looks for solutions to a problem by simulating a group of ants wandering over an area and laying down pheromones. ACO proved good at solving travelling-salesman-type problems. Since then it has grown into a whole family of algorithms, which have been applied to many practical questions. ... Ant-like algorithms have also been applied to the problem of routing information through communication networks. Dr. Dorigo and Gianni Di Caro, another researcher at IDSIA, have developed AntNet, a routing protocol in which packets of information hop from node to node, leaving a trace that signals the "quality" of their trip as they do so. Other packets sniff the trails thus created and choose accordingly. In computer simulations and tests on small-scale networks, AntNet has been shown to outperform existing routing protocols."

Comments

RE: Obama Acknowledges the !st Ammendment ...

[Anonymous Coward]

LoL!

The President Barak Hussain Obama has acknowledged the existance of the 1st Ammendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

This is a Watershed Event!

Previously, His Highest Majisty of the Relm of Niggerdom, Barak Hussain Obama, had earilery declared that He, had GOD given wirghts to the killing or kiddnaping of any human being on Planet Earth as HE should determine, from the pituclar twichings of his pinis.

Let us pray the 308 slug will hit the mark!