A Survey on Bio-inspired Methods for Resource Discovery

Abstract: In the past, people exposed a variety of the motivating insect or creature behaviours in the nature. A congregate of birds sweeps across the sky. A group of ants hunt for food. A group of fish swims, turns, flees together... - we label this category of group activity as swarm behaviour. Recently biologists and computer scientists in the field of artificial life have studied how to model biological swarms to understand how such social animals interact, achieve goals, and evolve. Biologically inspired computing is an area of computer science which uses the advantageous properties of biological systems. It is the amalgamation of computational intelligence and collective intelligence. Biologically inspired mechanisms have already proved successful in achieving major advances in a wide range of problems in computing and communication systems.

Keywords: Bio-inspired Methods, ACO, Honey Bee Foraging, Migration of Elephants