Swarm Intelligence - Universal scraps

The term Swarm Intelligence may be unfamiliar to you, but somewhere near you there are places in which it get applied .
Simply it can defined as the collective behavior of decentralized self organized systems.

The self organized system interact with each other and with the environment .It is also the basis of distributed problem solving . there is no centralized control to control the particles or independent systems.

The Ant search is ofter highlighted as an example of Swarm Intelligence.The other organisms came under SI are school of Fishes, migrating birds etc.

Swarm Robotics is an emerging area where swarm principles are applied to robots.
Read more about SI fro these links