Swarms and Network Intelligence
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Theory, Probability and Statistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2022) | Viewed by 33816
Special Issue Editors
Interests: federated learning; machine learning; network theory; social physics; swarm robotics
Interests: intelligent transportation systems; machine learning and pattern recognition; transport modeling; computational creativity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The last decade has seen a transformative change in the paradigms, tools and processes utilized for the analysis, modeling and design of data-driven systems. A macrolevel-oriented design is gradually being replaced by bottom–up design methodologies, that emphasize micro-level interactions and efficient composability for the emergence of an optimal macroscopic result. Spanning from rapid penetration of autonomous vehicles and decentralized intelligent ride-sharing systems, through the increasing dominance of autonomous trading machines in the equities, currencies and commodities markets, to the growing appetite of decentralized autonomous scalable big-data dependent mechanisms in the intelligence and defense spaces.
This Special Issue aims to be a forum for the presentation of new and improved techniques for the modeling and analysis of swarm architectures and network-driven system designs. In particular, the analysis and interpretation of such approaches in real-world natural and engineered environments falls within the scope of this Special Issue.
We particularly welcome original research works that focus on information-driven theoretic analysis or modeling approach.
- Information diffusion in real-world networks: temporal influence analysis and mutual information dynamics among nodes in real-life
- Collective and swarm intelligence: decentralized information processing and decision making
- Urban computing and smart cities: theoretical aspects of large-scale dynamic metropolitan multi-layered networks
- Autonomous collaborative security: self-organization and resilient information processing
- Intelligence transportation systems: information flow in geographically-embedded networks
- Smart contracts and cryptocurrencies: computation limitation, convergence and information leakage
- Decentralized finance (DeFi): effects of composability of information processing units on the future of economy
Dr. Yaniv Altshuler
Prof. Francisco Camara Pereira
Dr. Eli David
Guest Editor
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