Plenary Lecture - Russ Eberhart, PhD, FIEEE
Swarm Intelligence: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
The presentation begins with a review of the history of swarm intelligence and swarm optimization. Concepts, paradigms, algorithms, and implementations are described. Examples of practical applications are reviewed. The presentation concludes with an outline of recent developments in the swarm intelligence field, and a summary of challenges currently facing researchers and developers in the field. Speculations regarding some approaches to these challenges are presented.
Biography:
Russell C. Eberhart is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is also Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Computelligence LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in electrical engineering. He is co-editor of a book on neural networks, and co-author of Computational Intelligence PC Tools, published in 1996 by Academic Press. He is co-author of a book with Jim Kennedy and Yuhui Shi entitled Swarm Intelligence, published by Morgan Kaufmann/Academic Press in April 2001. He was awarded the IEEE Third Millenium Medal. In 2001, he became a Fellow of the IEEE, and in 2002 he became a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is the co-author, with Yuhui Shi, of a book entitled Computational Intelligence: Concepts to Implementations, published by Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier in 2007. His areas of research include swarm intelligence and extended analog computing, and the detection of sleepy and inattentive driving.
Plenary Lecture - James Kennedy, PhD
Using Social Interaction to Optimize
Computer scientists and engineers have been using the particle swarm for more than a decade to solve hard problems, but the method can also increase understanding of the adaptiveness of social behavior in organisms, especially humans. The paradigm evolved out of social psychological simulations of social influence processes featuring a positivity bias in self-presentation and a proclivity for mimicry, with some random noise added. I will describe the algorithm, show its connection to phenomena in biology and social psychology, and discuss the effects of varying some rules and parameters. A central research question remains: what is required for intelligence to emerge in a population of interacting individuals?
Biography:
James Kennedy is a social psychologist who has been working with the particle swarm algorithm, which he originated with Russell C. Eberhart, since 1994. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of North Carolina, and works for the US Department of Labor in Washington, DC. He has published dozens of articles and chapters on particle swarms and related topics, in both computer-science and social-science journals and Proceedings. The Morgan Kaufmann volume, "Swarm Intelligence," by Kennedy and Eberhart, is now in its third printing.
Banquet Speech - David Fogel, PhD, FIEEE
& President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Then and Now in Computational Intelligence
The roots of computational intelligence extend for more than 50 years. Over those decades, people working in computational intelligence have seen many changes in both in terms of their computing environments as well as their social environment. Some early promising ideas were simply too premature for the available hardware. Other ideas were mischaracterized and too easily dismissed. This talk will provide a glimpse at some of these early ideas and perceptions of people working in computational intelligence, and note how those perceptions have changed over time, particularly in the popular science media.
Biography:
Dr. David Fogel is CEO of Natural Selection, Inc. and managing director of the Lincoln Vale Adaptive Strategies Group. Dr. Fogel received the Ph.D. from UC San Diego in engineering sciences in 1992. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications, including 6 books. Dr. Fogel was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (1996-2002), editor-in-chief of BioSystems (2001-2008), and has served as general chair for many IEEE and other conferences. Dr. Fogel received the 2004 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award and was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999. He serves as the current president of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008-2009).
