Swarm Intelligence, Self-Organization, and Creative Computational Systems
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Complexity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 26
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genetic algorithms; estimation of distribution algorithms; ant colony optimization; particle swarm optimization
Interests: artificial intelligence; metaheuristics; games; modeling and simulation; complex systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on the relation between swarm intelligence, self-organization, and computational creative systems, bringing together work from artificial intelligence, generative art and complexity theory.
Swarm intelligence has long provided models of decentralized coordination and emergent behavior. Self-organizing systems, in turn, try to explain how structures, patterns, and order can arise without central control. These questions are closely connected to core ideas in complexity theory, such as emergence, adaptation, nonlinearity, and the interplay between order and entropy.
At the same time, computational creativity has moved from early rule-based approaches to evolutionary art, agent-based systems, and, more recently, large-scale generative models. Current developments in AI, especially in generative systems, make it timely to revisit the role of distributed and emergent processes in computational creativity.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions on theoretical foundations, algorithms, and applications at the intersection of these areas. Topics include swarm-based generative systems, emergent esthetics, evolutionary and bio-inspired creativity, multi-agent creative systems, entropy and complexity in creative computation, and the relation between swarm intelligence and current generative AI. Both theoretical and practice-based contributions are welcome, including work bridging science, art, technology, and design.
Dr. Carlos Fernandes
Dr. Nuno Fachada
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- swarm intelligence
- self-organization
- computational creativity
- generative art
- artificial art
- evolutionary art
- creative systems
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