Evolutionary & Swarm Design
Research Interests
Nature offers an amazing, yet largely unexplored, repertoire of approaches to build complex and elaborate systems. Instead of composing its entities from pre-fabricated parts, as is the standard way of our current designs through engineering, nature uses alternative approaches to explore design solutions for the creation of its organisms as, e.g., structure formation, growth, self-assembly, self-organization, emergence, and evolution.
Our Evolutionary & Swarm Design Group explores how specific natural design principles - such as mutation & selection, self-organization & self-assembly, and emergent computing through swarm intelligence - can be better understood by developing mathematical and computational models.
Our investigated framework of Evolutionary & Swarm Design can be used to build, further develop and improve ("evolve") complex systems in many domains such as computer science, physics, engineering, biology and bioinformatics.
Christian Jacob
August 2006
August 2006
Director of ESD Group
Dr. Christian Jacob
Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Calgary,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
[jacob][at][cpsc].[ucalgary].[ca]
Research Interests
- Swarm Intelligence
- Evolutionary Optimization
- Biological Simulations
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