The Insects of Nature-Inspired Computational Intelligence

Abstract

The desirable merits of the intelligent computational algorithms and the initial success in many domains have encouraged researchers to work towards the advancement of these techniques. A major plunge in algorithmic development to solve the increasingly complex problems turned out as breakthrough towards the development of computational intelligence (CI) techniques. Nature proved to be one of the greatest sources of inspiration for these intelligent algorithms. In this chapter, computational intelligence techniques inspired by insects are discussed. These techniques make use of the skills of intelligent agent by mimicking insect behavior suitable for the required problem. The diversities in the behavior of the insect families and similarities among them that are used by researchers for generating intelligent techniques are also discussed in this chapter.