Survey of swarm intelligence

Abstract

In this chapter, a systematic survey of swarm intelligence is given to show the overview of swarm intelligence, along with some recent developments in swarm intelligence and swarm robotics. First, the concept of swarm intelligence is given. Then, some general researches and several classical algorithms and their developments are presented in detail. After that, some novel algorithms and their applications are reviewed individually. Finally, some developments in swarm robotics are given.