Multi-swarm Problem Solving in Networks Tony White email: tony@sce.carleton.ca

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Multi-swarm Problem Solving in Networks Tony White email: tony@sce.carleton.ca

Overview

What is Swarm Intelligence?

What is Swarm Intelligence (cont.)?

Motivations

Emergent Problem Solving

Stigmergy

Ant Colony

Pheromone Trails

Pheromone Trails continued

Swarm operation

Swarm Agent Architecture

Multi-swarm Architecture

Emitters

Receptors

Chemicals

Chemistry

Examples of chemical reactions

Migration Decision Function

Multi-Swarm scenario

Routing Problem

Why Routing?

Routing Research

Routing agents

Point-2-Point Connections

Path Emergence

Explorer agent algorithm

Point-2-Multipoint Connections

Routing Function

Allocator agents

Connection monitoring agents

Connection diagnosis agents

Experimental Parameters (fixed)

Routing Results

Parameter Sensitivity

Routing Results

Diagnosis

Self Adaptation

Extensions to current m-Swarm system

Other (potential) applications of m-Swarm systems

Futuristic?

Author: Tony White.

Email: tony@sce.carleton.ca

Home Page: http://www.sce.carleton.ca/researchers/tony/index.html

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