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Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence. The expression was introduced by Jing Wang and Gerardo Beni in 1989, in the context of cellular robotic systems.

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1989 1
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The collective, self-organized behavior of decentralized natural or artificial agents following simple local rules. 1
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Swarm intelligence is explicitly employed in artificial intelligence work per its own lead.

Source Swarm Intelligence (Wikipedia)
Marco Dorigo, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia: Marco Dorigo
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1. Swarm Intelligence (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead paragraph, third sentence
    The expression was introduced by Jing Wang and Gerardo Beni in 1989, in the context of cellular robotic systems.
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence
    Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial.
  • Associated With: Artificial Intelligence, Lead section
    The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence.
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Wikipedia: Marco Dorigo
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  • Associated With: Marco Dorigo, Lead paragraph
    He is the leading proponent of the ant colony optimization metaheuristic, and one of the founders of the swarm intelligence research field.
  • Associated With: Marco Dorigo, Lead paragraph sentence on ant colony optimization
    He is the leading proponent of the ant colony optimization metaheuristic (see his book published by MIT Press in 2004), and one of the founders of the swarm intelligence research field.
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