Lecture ‘Swarm Intelligence and its Applications’

As part of the Artificial Intelligence lecture series, Academician Dušan Teodorović  gave a lecture titled ‘Swarm Intelligence and its Applications’ at the SASA Grand Hall, on 10 October

As the lecture abstract states, swarm intelligence represents a discipline of artificial intelligence based on the study of the behaviour of individuals in various decentralized systems. Special kinds of agents are agents created by analogy with social insect colonies, schools of fish and flocks of birds.

Social insects such as ants, termites, bees and wasps have lived on Earth for thousands of years. Their behaviour is characterized by autonomy, distributed functioning and self-organization. The development of models and algorithms inspired by the behaviour of social insects has been an extraordinary challenge.

The lecture gave an overview of the basic principles of Ant Colony Optimization and Bee Colony Optimization, as well as the applications of these algorithms.