《Smart Swarm: Using Animal Behaviour to Organise Our World》是由美國作家Peter Miller撰寫的非虛構類書籍，2010年首次出版。該書由HarperCollins UK出版社於2011年4月再版，ISBN為9780007382972。作者基於25年國家地理雜誌記者經歷的全球調研成果創作本書。
全書通過分析蟻群、魚群、蜂群等動物群體行為，探討集體智慧在人類社會的套用。案例涵蓋工廠流程最佳化、電話網路設計、軍事機器人建模及氣候控制方案開發等領域，結合計算機算法，延續《群體的智慧》的研究傳統，為商業決策與技術創新提供參考。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Smart Swarm
- 作者：Miller, Peter
- 出版時間：2011年4月
- 頁數：304 頁
- ISBN：9780007382972
- 定價：102.00 元
內容簡介
How Understanding Flocks, Schools and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colourful manifestatio...(展開全部) How Understanding Flocks, Schools and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colourful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, Smart Swarm introduces a compelling new understanding of the real experts on solving our own complex problems relating to such topics as business, politics, and technology. Based on extensive globe-trotting research, this lively tour from National Geographic reporter Peter Miller introduces thriving throngs of ant colonies, which have inspired computer programs for streamlining factory processes, telephone networks, and truck routes; termites, used in recent studies for climate-control solutions; schools of fish, on which the U.S. military modelled a team of robots; and many other examples of the wisdom to be gleaned about the behaviour of crowds-among critters and corporations alike. In the tradition of James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds and the innovative works of Malcolm Gladwell, Smart Swarm is an entertaining yet enlightening look at small-scale phenomena with big implications for us all.
