Title :
Circuit designs and fabrication of swarm-intelligence LSIs based on modeling foraging behaviors of ants
Author :
Nakao, Motoi ; Izumi, Katsutoshi
Author_Institution :
Res. Inst. for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Osaka Prefecture Univ., Sakai, Japan
Abstract :
Novel functional LSIs based on swarm intelligence of ant colony have been proposed. An ant colony is a highly organized society, though individual ants themselves act only according to simple behavioral patterns. Focusing on a foraging pattern among them, the modeled function was integrated on one LSI chip. To verify the function, the fabricated LSI was applied to solve a quasi-traveling salesman problem. Simulation results indicated that a designed LSI has swarm intelligence due to pheromone communication. This work suggests the possibility of fabricating swarm intelligence LSIs with our design method, based on modeling the foraging behaviors of ants.
Keywords :
artificial intelligence; circuit simulation; hardware description languages; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit modelling; large scale integration; LSI circuit fabrication; ant colony swarm intelligence; ant foraging behavior modeling; circuit simulation; hardware description languages; pheromone communication; quasitraveling salesman problem; swarm intelligence LSI circuit design; Artificial intelligence; Circuits; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; DNA computing; Fabrication; Hardware design languages; Large scale integration; Parallel processing; Particle swarm optimization;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2004. MWSCAS '04. The 2004 47th Midwest Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8346-X
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.2004.1354300
