Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation with Swarm

Contents

List of Tables ix

List of Figures xi

Preface xvii

1 Introduction 1

1.1 What is simulation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1.2 Simulation of intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.3 Criticism of simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

1.4 Swarm and the Santa Fe Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2 Evolutionary Methods and Evolutionary Computation 13

2.1 What is evolutionary computation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.2 What are genetic algorithms? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.2.1 Data representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.2.2 Selection . . . . . . . . . .