Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation with Swarm (Paperback)

Introduction
What is simulation?
Simulation of intelligence
Criticism of simulation
Swarm and the Santa Fe Institute

Evolutionary Methods and Evolutionary Computation
What is evolutionary computation?
What are genetic algorithms?
What is genetic programming?
What is interactive evolutionary computation?

Multi-Agent Simulation Based on Swarm
Overview of Swarm
Tutorial

Evolutionary Simulation
Simulation of sexual selection
Swarm-based simulation of sexual selection
Simulation of the prisoner’s dilemma
Evolving artificial creatures and artificial life

Ant Colony-Based Simulation
Collective behaviors of ants
Swarm simulation of the pheromone trails of ants
Ant colony optimization (ACO)
Ant-clustering algorithms
Swarm-based simulation of ant-clustering
Ant colony-based approach to the network routing problem
Ant-based job separation
Emergent cooperation of army ants

Particle Swarm Simulation
Boids and flocking behaviors
Simulating boids with Swarm
Swarm chemistry
PSO: particle swarm optimization
ABC algorithm
BUGS: a bug-based search strategy
BUGS in Swarm

Cellular Automata Simulation
Game of life
Conway class with Swarm
Program that replicates itself
Simulating forest fires with Swarm
Segregation model simulation with Swarm
Lattice gas automaton
Turing model and morphogenesis simulation
Simulating percolation with Swarm
Silicon traffic and its control
The world of Sugarscape