Swarm Intelligence: A Whole New Way to Think about Business

By Stephen M. Horan. 2001

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Smart Agents in Industrial Cyber–Physical Systems (2016, methodology): “The Southwest Airlines used a software solution, developed by BiosGroup, integrating ant-based algorithms to get planes to available gates faster at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, US [71].”
The Wisdom of Consumer Crowds (2008, background): “The swarm economy has been detailed by Bonabeau and Meyer (2001) who find these forms of self-organized collective behavior directly related to complexity theory.”
The role of leadership in emergent, self-organization (2007, background): “A dominant means of encouraging innovation was the presence of “swarm intelligence” ( Bonabeau & Meyer, 2001 ) among members of the congregation.”
On Honey Bees and Dynamic Server Allocation in Internet Hosting Centers (2004, background): “A hosting center with a certain number of servers hosting multiple internet clients is analogous to a honey bee colony with a certain number of bees foraging at multiple sites in the surrounding countryside.”