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Solving Engineering Design Problems by Social Cognitive Optimization
Xiao-Feng Xie and Wen-Jun Zhang
Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, Chinaxiexf@ieee.org
zwj@tsinghua.edu.cn
Abstract. Swarm systems are products of natural evolution. The complex collective behavior can emerge from a society of N autonomous cognitive entities [2], called as agents [5]. Each agent acquires knowledge in socially biased individual learning [4]. For human, the extrasomatic arbitrary symbols that manipulated by language allows for cognition on a grand scale [3], since agent can acquire social information that is no longer limited to direct observation to other agents. The individual learning then only plays secondary role due to the ubiquity and efficiency of social learning [1].
LNCS 3102, p. 261 f.
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