Swarm Intelligence

physical space; it might better be thought of as change of state than

change of position.

Maximum The vector of input parameters that produces the greatest

function output.

Means-end analysis A classical AI technique for comparing the current

state to the goal state and searching for an operator that reduces the

most important differences between the two.

Memes Richard Dawkins’ proposition that ideas and other cultural sym-

bols and patterns, called memes, are analogous to genes; they evolve

through selection, with mutation and recombination, increasing their

frequency in the population if they are adaptive.

Memetics A view originating with Richard Dawkins ...