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Questions tagged [swarm-intelligence]
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Would a general-purpose AI need to collaborate?
Human beings are more productive in groups than individually, possibly due to the fact that there is a limit to how much one human brain can improve itself in terms of speed of computation and areas of expertise.
By contrast, if a machine with…
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Why can't I reproduce the experiments in the original paper that introduced the Firefly Algorithm?
I have been trying to reproduce the experiments done in the original: Firefly Algorithm for multimodal optimization (2010) by Xin-She Yang, but so far unsuccessfully. For the moment being, I'm okay if anyone points me in the right direction.
I wrote…
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What is the difference between artificial intelligence and swarm intelligence?
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions. The term may also be applied to any machine that exhibits traits associated with a human mind…
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What is the meaning of the square brackets in ant colony optimization?
I'm studying the paper "Minimizing Total Tardiness on a Single Machine Using Ant Colony Optimization" which has proposed to use Ant colony optimization to SMTWTP.
According to this paper:
Each artificial ant iteratively and independently decides…
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What types of applications qualify as "compound intelligences"?
A question about swarm intelligence as a potential method of strong general AI came up recently, and yielded some useful answers and clarifications regarding the nature of swarm intelligence. But it got me thinking about "group intelligence" in…
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What is the difference between the ant system and the max-min ant system?
I'm studying ant colony optimization. I'm trying to understand the difference between the ant system (AS) and the max-min ant system (MMAS) approaches. As far as I found out, the main difference between these 2 is that in AS the pheromone trail is…
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What are the applications of ant colony optimization algorithms?
I'm interested in ant colony optimization algorithms and bee algorithms,but I'm confused what are the applications of these algorithms
Can you suggest me some examples of applications can I work on?
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Which algorithms, between ant colony or classical routing algorithms, have a better time complexity for the shortest path problem?
Which algorithms, between ant colony or classical routing algorithms, have a better time complexity for the shortest path problem?
In general, can we compare efficiency of these two types of algorithm for the shortest path problem in a graph?
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What is the difference between continuous domains and discrete combinatorial optimization?
According to this website: http://yarpiz.com/67/ypea104-acor (in the website it is mentioned that it is a project aiming to be a resource of academic and professional scientific source codes and tutorials.):
"Originally, the Ant Algorithms are used…
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Are all ant routing algorithms the same?
Are all ant routing algorithms the same? If no, what is the common properties of all of them? In other words, how we can detect a routing algorithm is an ant routing algorithm?
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Is there an efficiency swarm Intelligence algorithm for off-chain channels routing in blockchain?
One of the solutions to scale blockchain is to use off-chain channels. You can find its definition here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Off-Chain_Transactions.
However, one of the problems of off-chain channels is finding a suitable decentralized…
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How Swarm Intelligence can empower Blockchain?
Are there examples of applications in blockchain consensus using swarm intelligence, as opposed to classical consensus mechanisms like PoW or PBFT?
Please note that recent classical consensuses, including lottery-based such as PoW in which the…
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Nature-inspired artificial intelligent methods for Blockchain?
I am working on the blockchain technology and I am not very familiar with the AI concept.
The proposal of this web page: (http://www.euraxess.lu/jobs/349354) opens a discussion about use of nature inspired artificial intelligent methods for…
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In the Binary Flower Pollination Algorithm (using the sigmoid function), is it possible that no feature is selected?
I'm trying to use the Binary Flower Pollination Algorithm (BFPA) for feature selection. In the BFPA, the sigmoid function is used to compute a binary vector that represents whether a feature is selected or not. Here are the relevant equations from…
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How can Cat Swarm Algorithm (CSO) used for feature selection?
Cat swarm optimization (CSO) is a novel metaheuristic for evolutionary optimization algorithms based on swarm intelligence which proposed in 2006. See Feature Selection of Support Vector Machine Based on Harmonious Cat Swarm Optimization.
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