Bioinspired algorithms look to the natural world for inspiration on managing complexity. There are many great references on the topic and it’s application to “real world” problems. I particularly like the work of Zomaya and Olariu, Xin-She Yang and Melanie Mitchell. I hope to demonstrate some of these methods in parallel applications.

Particle Swarm Optimization.

Simple and useful for finding the minimum or maximum of a function.

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Parallel Ant Routing Algorithm, coming soon...