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Springer Swarm Stability And Optimization 2011 Edition by Veysel Gazi Kevin M. Passino
Swarming species such as flocks of birds or schools of fish exhibitfascinating collective behaviors during migration and predatoravoidance. Similarly engineered multi-agent dynamic systems such as groups of autonomous ground underwater or air vehicles ("vehicle swarms") exhibit sophisticated collective behaviors while maneuvering.In this book we show how to model and control a wide range of suchmulti-agent dynamic systems and analyze their collective behaviorusing both stability theoretic and simulation-based approaches. Inparticular we investigate problems such as group aggregation socialforaging formation control swarm tracking distributed agreementand engineering optimization inspired by swarm behavior. Table of contents : Part I Basic Principles.- Part II Continuous Time Swarms.- Part III Discrete Time Swarms.- Part IV Swarm Based Optimization Methods.