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Swarm foraging is a common test case application for multi-robot systems. In this paper we present a novel algorithm for controlling swarm robots with limited communication range and storage capacity to efficiently search for and retrieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Simon O. Obute , Mehmet R. Dogar , Jordan H. Boyle

Understanding quantum phase transitions in physical systems is fundamental to characterize their behavior at low temperatures. Achieving this requires both accessing good approximations to the ground state and identifying order parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Chenfeng Cao , Filippo Maria Gambetta , Ashley Montanaro , Raul A. Santos

Swarm Intelligence-based optimization techniques combine systematic exploration of the search space with information available from neighbors and rely strongly on communication among agents. These algorithms are typically employed to solve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Vipul Mann , Abhishek Sivaram , Laya Das , Venkat Venkatasubramanian

We propose an approach of open-ended evolution via the simulation of swarm dynamics. In nature, swarms possess remarkable properties, which allow many organisms, from swarming bacteria to ants and flocking birds, to form higher-order…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Olaf Witkowski , Takashi Ikegami

We consider swarms formed by populations of self-propelled particles with attractive long-range interactions. These swarms represent multistable dynamical systems and can be found either in coherent traveling states or in an incoherent…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-31 A. S. Mikhailov , D. H. Zanette

In this paper, a swarm intelligence optimization algorithm is proposed as the Shrike Optimization Algorithm (SHOA). Many creatures living in a group and surviving for the next generation randomly search for food; they follow the best one in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Hanan K. AbdulKarim , Tarik A. Rashid

Swarm intelligence is a research field that models the collective behavior in swarms of insects or animals. Several algorithms arising from such models have been proposed to solve a wide range of complex optimization problems. In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Erik Cuevas , Miguel Cienfuegos , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez

Evolutionary optimization algorithms, including particle swarm optimization (PSO), have been successfully applied in oil industry for production planning and control. Such optimization studies are quite challenging due to large number of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Ajitabh Kumar

Random neural networks are dynamical descriptions of randomly interconnected neural units. These show a phase transition to chaos as a disorder parameter is increased. The microscopic mechanisms underlying this phase transition are unknown,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-18 Gilles Wainrib , Jonathan Touboul

Self-organization of a biologically motivated swarm into smaller subgroups of different velocities is found by solving a 1-dimensional adaptive-velocity swarm, in which the velocity of an agent is averaged over a finite local radius of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-09-13 Jiangning Chen , Weituo Zhang , Chjan C. Lim

The particle swarm approach provides a low complexity solution to the optimization problem among various existing heuristic algorithms. Recent advances in the algorithm resulted in improved performance at the cost of increased computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Muhammad Omer Bin Saeed , Muhammad Saqib Sohail , Syed Zeeshan Rizvi , Mobien Shoaib , Asrar Ul Haq Sheikh

Robot swarms, systems of many robots that operate in a distributed fashion, have many applications in areas such as search-and-rescue, natural disaster response, and self-assembly. Several of these applications can be abstracted to the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Adithya Balachandran , Noble Harasha , Nancy Lynch

We propose novel particle swarm optimization (PSO) variants incorporated with deep neural networks (DNNs) for particles to pursue globally optimal positions in dynamic environments. PSO is a heuristic approach for solving complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Stephen Raharja , Toshiharu Sugawara

Chaotic dynamics have emerged as a versatile resource for neuromorphic and probabilistic computing, enabling high-dimensional nonlinear processing and classical analogues of quantum randomness. Exploiting chaos for computation requires…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jungyoon Kim , Kyuho Kim , Kunwoo Park , Namkyoo Park , Sunkyu Yu

A great deal of research has been conducted in the consideration of meta-heuristic optimisation methods that are able to find global optima in settings that gradient based optimisers have traditionally struggled. Of these, so-called…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Max D. Champneys , Timothy J. Rogers

Swarm intelligence effectively optimizes complex systems across fields like engineering and healthcare, yet algorithm solutions often suffer from low reliability due to unclear configurations and hyperparameters. This study analyzes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nitin Gupta , Indu Bala , Bapi Dutta , Luis Martínez , Anupam Yadav

Self-organization of heterogeneous particle swarms is rich in its dynamics but hard to design in a traditional top-down manner, especially when many types of kinetically distinct particles are involved. In this chapter, we discuss how we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Hiroki Sayama

Many real-world phenomena can be modelled as dynamic optimization problems. In such cases, the environment problem changes dynamically and therefore, conventional methods are not capable of dealing with such problems. In this paper, a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Somayeh Nabizadeh , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammad Reza Meybodi

In real life, mostly problems are dynamic. Many algorithms have been proposed to handle the static problems, but these algorithms do not handle or poorly handle the dynamic environment problems. Although, many algorithms have been proposed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zahid Iqbal , Waseem Shahzad

The particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm has been recently introduced in the non--linear programming, becoming widely studied and used in a variety of applications. Starting from its original formulation, many variants for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Silvano Chiaradonna , Felicita Di Giandomenico , Nadir Murru