Introduction to Swarm (TV series)
Introduction to Swarm (TV series)

Author: Gilad James, PhD

Publisher: Gilad James Mystery School

Published:

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 7816914024

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Swarm is a 2021 science-fiction TV series that is available on Netflix. The show is created by Frank Doelger and directed by Luke Watson. It is co-produced by Netflix and ZDF, a German public-service broadcaster. The story of Swarm revolves around a deadly virus that spreads across the world, causing individuals to behave abnormally. The virus seems to be attacking only humans, making them violent and uncontrollable. Governments are failing to control the situation, and as a result, a group of volunteers steps forward to find a way to fix the problem. The series’ main protagonist is Dr. Caroline Valez, a microbiologist who works with the World Health Organisation's Epidemic Intelligence Service. Valez is part of a team of researchers and experts who are sent to investigate the virus. The group comprises of various professionals, including epidemiologists, behaviorists, and a social media expert. Swarm is a thrilling series that explores both scientific and human elements. From the perspective of science, the show presents the challenge of identifying and overcoming the virus that causes the zombie-like behavior. On the other hand, Swarm delves into human behaviors at their worst, while at the same time showcasing the power of collective action.

Swarm Intelligence
Swarm Intelligence

Author: Felix Chan

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 3902613092

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In the era globalisation the emerging technologies are governing engineering industries to a multifaceted state. The escalating complexity has demanded researchers to find the possible ways of easing the solution of the problems. This has motivated the researchers to grasp ideas from the nature and implant it in the engineering sciences. This way of thinking led to emergence of many biologically inspired algorithms that have proven to be efficient in handling the computationally complex problems with competence such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), etc. Motivated by the capability of the biologically inspired algorithms the present book on "Swarm Intelligence: Focus on Ant and Particle Swarm Optimization" aims to present recent developments and applications concerning optimization with swarm intelligence techniques. The papers selected for this book comprise a cross-section of topics that reflect a variety of perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds. In addition to the introduction of new concepts of swarm intelligence, this book also presented some selected representative case studies covering power plant maintenance scheduling; geotechnical engineering; design and machining tolerances; layout problems; manufacturing process plan; job-shop scheduling; structural design; environmental dispatching problems; wireless communication; water distribution systems; multi-plant supply chain; fault diagnosis of airplane engines; and process scheduling. I believe these 27 chapters presented in this book adequately reflect these topics.

Swarm
Swarm

Author: B.V. Larson

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781460953136

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A novel of military science fiction telling the story of Earth's annexation by an alien empire. Long considered a primitive people on a backwater planet, humanity finds itself in the middle of a war, and faced with extinction.

Swarm Intelligence
Swarm Intelligence

Author: James Haywood Rolling, Jr.

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1137401516

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Companies and organizations everywhere cite creativity as the most desirable - and elusive - leadership quality of the future. Yet scores measuring creativity among American children have been on the wane for decades. A specialist in creative leadership, professor James Haywood Rolling, Jr. knows firsthand that the classroom is a key to either unlocking or blocking the critical imagination. He argues that today's schools, with their focus on rote learning and test-taking, work to stymie creativity, leaving children cut off from their natural impulses and boxed in by low expectations. Drawing on cutting-edge research in the realms of biological swarm theory, systems theory, and complexity theory, Rolling shows why group collaboration and adaptive social networking make us both smarter and more creative, and how we can design education and workplace practices around these natural principles, instead of pushing a limited focus on individual achievement that serves neither children nor their future colleagues, managers and mentors. The surprising truth is that the future will be pioneered by the collective problem-solvers, making Swarm Intelligence a must-read for business leaders, educators, and anyone else concerned with nurturing creative intelligence and innovative habits in today's youth.

The Swarm
The Swarm

Author: Frank Schatzing

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 1149

ISBN-13: 0061803952

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Now a CW Original Series The Der Spiegel number #1 blockbuster bestseller about an intelligent life force that takes over the oceans and exacts revenge on mankind! Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic eyeless crabs poison Long Island’s water supply. Around the world, countries are beginning to feel the effects of the ocean’s revenge. In this riveting novel, full of twists, turns, and cliffhangers, a team of scientists discovers a strange, intelligent life force called the Yrr that takes form in marine animals in order to wreak havoc on man for his abuses. The Day After Tomorrow meets The Abyss in his gripping, scientifically realist, utterly imaginative thriller. With the compellingly creepy and vivid skill of this author to evoke story, character, and place, Frank Schatzing’s book are certain to find a home with fans of Michael Crichton.

Collaborative Learning in Media Education
Collaborative Learning in Media Education

Author: Marcus Leaning

Publisher: Informing Science

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1932886931

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Introduction: Collaborative Learning in Higher Education Media Education Programmes Marcus Leaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Section 1 Thinking Collaboratively Chapter 1: Framing Collaboration in Media Education Marcus Leaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 2: Programming Collaborative Leaning Bex Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Chapter 3: Exploring the Use of Collaborative Learning in an Experientially Designed Student Undergraduate Programme: A Case Study Melanie Gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Section 2 Social Media Technologies and Collaboration Chapter 4: Empowering the Learner, Liberating the Teacher? Collaborative Lectures Using New Technologies Dan Jackson and Richard Berger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Chapter 5: Student Wiki Pages: Online Collaboration in a Networked Learning Environment Einar Thorsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Chapter 6: Structures for Digital Collaboration and Interaction Lisa Stansbie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Section 3 Collaboration In and Out of the Classroom Chapter 7: Stories & Streams: A Problem-Based Design for Student-Led Collaboration and Peer-to Peer Teaching Across Media Practice Modules Paul Bradshaw, Jonathan Hickman and Jennifer Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Chapter 8: Programming Collaborative Leaning Jem Mackay and Karl Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Swarm Intelligence
Swarm Intelligence

Author: Eric Bonabeau

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999-09-23

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0198030150

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Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents, this intelligence lies in the networks of interactions among individuals and between individuals and the environment. A fascinating subject, social insects are also a powerful metaphor for artificial intelligence, and the problems they solve--finding food, dividing labor among nestmates, building nests, responding to external challenges--have important counterparts in engineering and computer science. This book provides a detailed look at models of social insect behavior and how to apply these models in the design of complex systems. The book shows how these models replace an emphasis on control, preprogramming, and centralization with designs featuring autonomy, emergence, and distributed functioning. These designs are proving immensely flexible and robust, able to adapt quickly to changing environments and to continue functioning even when individual elements fail. In particular, these designs are an exciting approach to the tremendous growth of complexity in software and information. Swarm Intelligence draws on up-to-date research from biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, and computer graphics, and each chapter is organized around a particular biological example, which is then used to develop an algorithm, a multiagent system, or a group of robots. The book will be an invaluable resource for a broad range of disciplines.

Swarm and Steel
Swarm and Steel

Author: Michael R. Fletcher

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-08-22

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1940456916

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Zerfall awakens in an alley, wounded and unable to remember her past. Chased by an assassin out into the endless wastes of the desert, she is caught, disfigured, and left for dead. Her scabbard is empty, but the need for answers—and the pull of her sword—will draw her back to the city-states. When Jateko, a naïve youth, accidentally kills a member of his own tribe, he finds himself outcast and pursued across the desert for his crimes. Crazed from dehydration, dying of thirst and hunger, he stumbles across Zerfall. Hunted by assassins and bound by mutual need, both Zerfall and Jeteko will confront the Täuschung, an ancient and deranged religion ruled by a broken fragment of Zerfall’s mind. Swarm, the Täuschung hell, seethes with imprisoned souls, but where gods—real or imagined—meddle in the affairs of man, the cost is high. In Swarm and Steel, the power of belief can manifest and shape reality, and for political and religious leaders, faith becomes a powerful tool. But the insane are capable of twisting reality with their delusions as well, turning increasingly dangerous as their sanity crumbles. It is here that a long prophesied evil will be born, an endless hunger. The All Consuming will rise.

Swarm
Swarm

Author: Scott Westerfeld

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1481443399

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As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd's rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.

Nanorobotics
Nanorobotics

Author: Constantinos Mavroidis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-01-04

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1461421195

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Nanorobots can be defined as intelligent systems with overall dimensions at or below the micrometer range that are made of assemblies of nanoscale components with individual dimensions ranging between 1 to 100 nm. These devices can now perform a wide variety of tasks at the nanoscale in a wide variety of fields including but not limited to fields such as manufacturing, medicine, supply chain, biology, and aerospace. Nanorobotics: Current Approaches and Techniques offers a comprehensive overview of this emerging interdisciplinary field with a wide ranging discussion that includes nano-manipulation and industrial nanorobotics, nanorobotic manipulation in biology and medicine, nanorobotic sensing, navigation and swarm behavior and CNT, and protein and DNA-based nanorobotics.