Swarm Intelligence : Trends and Applications

This book presents the fundamentals of swarm intelligence, from classic algorithms to emerging techniques. It presents comprehensive theoretical foundations and examples using the main Computational Intelligence methods in programming languages ​​such as Python, Java and MATLAB®. Real-world applications are also presented in areas as diverse as Medicine, Biology and industrial applications.

The book is organized into two parts. The first part provides an introduction to swarming algorithms and hybrid techniques. In the second part, real world applications of swarm intelligence are presented to illustrate how swarm algorithms can be used in applications of optimization and pattern recognition, reviewing the principal methods and methodologies in swarm intelligence.

Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil. He is a DSc in Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG, 2009), and a MSc (2003) and BSc (2001) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UFPE, Brazil. His main research interests are pattern recognition, machine learning, intelligent diagnosis systems, evolutionary computing, applied neuroscience, and artificial intelligence in health.

Juliana Carneiro Gomes is a Biomedical Engineer from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE, 2016), with a sandwich period at Mercer University, USA. She worked as a researcher at the Advanced Imaging Algorithms and Instrumentation Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, USA. She is a Master in Biomedical Engineering (UFPE, 2019) and a PhD student in Computer Engineering at the University of Pernambuco (UPE). She is a Professor at the Physics Department at UFPE.

Valter Augusto de Freitas Barbosa has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (2022), a Master in Biomedical Engineering (2017) and a Biomedical Engineer from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2014), Brazil, with a sandwich period at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco. His research interests are focused on pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and deep neural networks.