Keywords: Stigmergy, Self-Organization, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Life, Artificial Ant Systems, Image Segmentation, Image Analysis, Contour Detection, Gestalt Perception Theory, Distributed Computation, Collective Intelligence.

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º Huang P., Cao H.,Luo S., "An artificial Ant Colonies approach to Medical Image Segmentation", to appear in Computer methods and Programs in Biomedicine Journal, Elsevier, August 2008.

º Alirezae Rezaee, "Extracting Edge of Images with Ant Colony", in Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol 59, 1, pp. 57-59, 2008.

º Guo Hui-Lin, Su Yi-Dan, "New Ant Clustering algorithm based on Multi-Strategies", in Computer Eng. and Applications Journal, Vol. 44, n. 16, pp. 154-156, China, 2008.

º Cao, H., Huang, P., Luo, S., "A Novel Image Segmentation Algorithm based on Artificial Ant Colonies", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 4987, LNCS,  pp. 63-71, Springer, 2008.

º Leila Djerou, Nacer Khelil, Mohamed Batouche, "Image Segmentation by Self-Organised Region Growing", in 7th Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications - CISIM 08, pp. 171-176, IEEE Press, 2008.

º Bin Zhang, Yi-Dan Su, "An Ant Colony Clustering Algorithm Based on Directional Similarity: ACCADS", in Computer and Modernization Journal, n. 3, pp. 86-89, China, 2008.

º Xiaodong Zhuang, Guowei Yang, Dongqing Wang, Liyan Xu, "The Emergent Patterns of Artificial Ant Colony's Collective Behavior in Gray-Scale Images for Feature Extraction", in ICNSC 08, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, IEEE Press, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1685-1, pp. 1227-1232, April 2008.

º Richárd Szabó, "Investigation of Navigating Mobile Agents in Simulation Environments", Thesis of the Doctoral Dissertation (in Hungary), Department of Software Technology and Methodology, Faculty of Informatics, Loránd Eötvös University, 2008.

º Walther Fledelius, Brian Mayoh, "Toward a Unified Framework for Swarm Based Image Analysis", in Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents, AISB 2008.

º P. Cerello, S.C. Cheran, G. Gargano, R. Bellotti, F. De, S. Tangaro, C. Fulcheri, E. Tommasi, "Ant Colonies for the Reconstruction of Artificial 3D Objects", in IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, CIMSA 07, IEEE Press, pp. 44-48, June 2007.

º Nicolas Monmarché, Isabelle Mahnich, Mohamed Slimane, "Artificial Art made by Artificial Ants", in Juan Romero, Penousal Machado (Eds.), The Art of Artificial Evolution - A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and Music, Natural Computing Series, Chapter 11, pp. 227-248, Springer, 2007.

º Mao Li, Jia Heng-song, Bian Feng, "Automatic Classification of Images based on Classification Ant Colony Algorithm", in Computer and Applications Journal, ISSN 1002-8331, Vol. 181, pp. 68-70, China, Sept. 2007.

º Gary Greenfield, "Programmer Creativity", Chapter XXI in Al-Girl Tan (Ed.), Creativity - A Handbook for Teachers, World Scientific, ISBN 9812569588, 2007.

º Jeff Jones, Mohammed Saeed, "Collective perception of absolute brightness from relative contrast information - an emergent pattern formation approach", in Andrew Adamatzky, Lawrence Bull, Ben De Lacy Costello, Susan Stepney, Christof Teuscher (Eds.), Unconventional Computing, Luniver Press, 2007.

º Dante Chialvo, "Emergent Complexity: what uphill analysis or downhill invention can not do", Journal of New Ideas in Psychology (special issue), Elsevier, 2007.

º Wun-Tat Chan, Yong Zhang, Stanley P.Y. Fung, Deshi Ye and Hong Zhu, "Efficient Algorithms for finding a Longest Common Increasing Subsequence", in Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, ISSN 1382-6905, Vol. 13, n. 3,  pp.277-288, Springer, April 2007.

º Scheutz, M., "Real-time hierarchical swarms for rapid adaptive multi-level pattern detection and tracking", in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, SIS 07, pp. 234-241, 2007.

º Wang Yu-qing, Liu Wei-ya, "Application of Swarm Intelligence in Image Processing", in Journal of Computer Applications, 27 (07), pp. 1647-1650, ISSN: 1001-9081, China, 2007.
 
º Zhu, Hui, Zhuang, Xiaodong Meng, Xiang Zhong, "Emergent Behavior of Ant Colony System in Digital Images for Acquiring Edge Information", in IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration 07, IRI, IEEE eds., pp 116-121, 2007.

º Walther Fledelius, "Swarm based Medical Image Analysis: Applied In-Vivo Corneal Confocal Microscopy", PhD Thesis, Aarhus University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Denmark, 2007.

º Jeff Jones and Mohammed Saeed, "Image Enhancement – An Emergent Pattern Formation approach via Decentralised Multi-Agent Systems", in Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal (Special Issue on Nature inspired systems for parallel, asynchronous and decentralised environments), Enda Ridge, Edward Curry, Daniel Kudenko, Dimitar Kazakov (Eds.), Vol. 3, n. 1/07, pp. 105-140, IOS Press, April 2007.

º Wang Yu-qing, Liu Wei-ya, "Application of Swarm Intelligence in Image Processing", in Journal of Computer Applications, ISSN 1001-9081, TP18, pp. 1647-1650, China, 2007.

º Sorin Cristian Cheran, "Artificial Life models in 3D worlds: Virtual Ant Colonies for the Reconstruction of the Bronchial and Vascular Trees and the Pleura in Lung Computed Tomography (CT)", PhD Thesis, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy, 2007.

º Maxim Shoshany, Asaf Even-Paz, Shlomo Bekhor, "Evolution of clusters in dynamic point patterns: with a case study of Ants' simulation", in Int. Journal of Geographical Information Science, Volume 21, Issue 7, pp. 777 - 797, Jan. 2007.

º Luis Antón-Canalís, Elena Sánchez-Nielsen, Mario Hernández-Tejera. "Particle Swarms as Video Sequence Inhabitants For Object Tracking in Computer Vision". Sixth Internacional Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications. Jinan, Shandong, China, Oct. 2006.

º Yan Chen-yang, Zhang You-peng, Xiong Wei-qing , "Artificial Ant Colony Based on Grayscale Grads Perception on Digital Image Edge Detection", in Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications, Vol.42, No.36, pp.23-27, 2006.

º Tomas Piatrik and Ebroul Izquierdo, "Image Classification Using an Ant Colony Optimization Approach", in Semantic Multimedia, LNCS, Springer, Vol. 4306, pp. 159-168, Dec. 2006.

º Greenfield, G., "On evolving multi-pheromone ant paintings", (2006) 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006, art. no. 1688562, pp. 2072-2078.

º Zhou, W., Lin, L., Gu, W., "A swarm optimization model for energy minimization problem of early vision", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4233 LNCS - II, Springer, pp. 1128-1137, 2006.

º Meng Zhi-gang, Han Yong-guo, "Application of Artificial Life in Image Processing", in Applications Research of Computers Journal, Vol.23, No.1, pp. 255-257, 260, 2006.

º Ghoseiri, K., Morshedsolouk, F., "ACS-TS: Train Scheduling using Ant Colony System", Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, art. no. 95060, 2006.

º D. Djordjevic, Q. Zhang, K. Chandramouli, T. Piatrik, S. Sav, J. Jose, J. Urban, G. Anadiotis, "State of the Art on User Relevance Feedback and Biologically Inspired Systems", in K-Space EU Project - Information Society Technologies (FP6-0270026), ID4.4 Report, Queen Mary Univ. of London (QMUL, UK), Dublin City Univ. (DCU, Ireland), Glasgow Univ. (GU, UK), Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (WCI, Netherlands), 98 pages, 8 July 2006.

º Simonin, O., Gechter, F. , "An Environment-Based Methodology to Design Reactive Multi-agent Systems for Problem Solving", in LNAI Lecture Note in Artificial Intelligence 3830 ( Environment for Multiagent Systems II ). Eds. Weyns, D. and Van Dyke Parunak,, H. and Michel F., pp.32-49. Springer-Verlag, 2006.

º Bocchi, L., Ballerini, L., "Image Space Colonization Algorithm", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 3907 LNCS, pp. 356-367, 2006.

º Christopher Middendorff and Matthias Scheutz, "Real-time Evolving Swarms for Rapid Pattern Detection and Tracking", in Artificial Life X - Proc. of the Tenth Int. Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, L.M. Rocha, L.S. Yaeger, M.A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R.L. Goldstone and A. Vespignani (Eds.), MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-68162-5, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, June 3-7, 2006.

º Laszlo Gulyas, Laszlo Laufer, Richard Szabo, "Measuring Stigmergy: The Case of Foraging Ants", in ESOA 06 - Fourth Int. Workshop on Engineering Self-Organizing Applications, Springer-Verlag LNCS series, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.

º Gary Greenfield, "Robot Paintings Evolved using Simulated Robots", in Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2006: EvoMUSART, Franz Rothlauf, Jürgen Branke, Stefano Cagnoni, Ernesto Costa, Carlos Cotta, Rolf Drechsler, Evelyne Lutton, Penousal Machado, Jason H. Moore, Juan Romero, George D. Smith, Giovanni Squillero, Hideyuki Takagi (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Vol. 3907, pp. 611 - 621 , Budapest, Hungary, April 10-12, 2006.

º C. George and J. Wolfer, "A Swarm Intelligence Approach to Counting Stacked Symmetric Objects", in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
- AIA 06, Acta Press, Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 2006.

º Gary Greenfield, "Ant Paintings using a Multiple Pheromone Model", to appear in 7th International Conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges 2006 - Bridges 2006,  Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 23-25, 2006.

º Tomas Piatrik, Krishna Chandramouli, Ebroul Izquierdo, "Image Classification using Biologically inspired Systems", in ACM Int. Conf. Procs. Series, Procs. of the 2nd Int. Conf. on Mobile Multimedia Communications, Vol. 324, art. nº 28, ACM Press, New York, 2006.

º W. Fledelius and B.H. Mayoh, "A Swarm based Approach to Medical Image Analysis", in AIA ´06, Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Acta Press, Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 2006.

º Adrian A. Hopgood, "The State of Artificial Intelligence", Journal of Advances in Computers, Vol. 65 (1), Elsevier Inc., 2005.

º Renbin Xiao, Zhenwu Tao, "A Swarm Intelligence Approach to Path Synthesis of Mechanism", in CAD-CG ´05, pp. 451-456,  Ninth International Conference on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics, Hong-Kong, Dec. 2005.

º Alexiuk, M.D., Wiebe, G.K., Pizzi, N.J., "Emergent models of wellness: A case study of management practices in single resident occupant hotels of Vancouver CA", Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 1594-1597, 2005.

º Wang Shugen Yang Yun Lin Ying Cao Chonghua, "Automatic Classification of Remotely Sensed Images Based on Artificial Ant Colony Algorithm", Computer Engineering and Applications Journal, Vol.41, No.29, pp. 77-80,116, 2005.

º Meng Zhi-gang, Han Yong-guo, "Application of Artificial Life in Image Segmentation", Journal of Ordnance Industry Automation, Vol. 24, nº 4, p. 59, 2005.

º Leonardo Bocchi, Lucia Ballerini and Signe Hässler, "A New Evolutionary Algorithm for Image Segmentation", EuroGP 05 - Applications on Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2005, Franz Rothlauf, Jürgen Branke, Stefano Cagnoni, et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, LNCS series, 2005.

º X. Zhuang, N.E. Mastorakis, "Edge Detection Based on the Collective Intelligence of Artificial Swarms", in WSEAS Conferences, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 25-27, 2005.

º W.T. Chan, Y. Zhang, S.P.Y Fung, D. Ye, and H. Zhu, "Efficient Algorithms for Finding a Longest Common Increasing Subsequence", in Proc. of the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2005), Sanya, Hainan, China, 19-21 Dec 2005.

º Pooyan Khajehpour, Caro Lucas and Babak N. Araabi, "Hierarchical Image Segmentation Using Ant Colony and Chemical Computing Approach", in Advances in Natural Computation, Lipo Wang, Ke Chen, Yew S. Ong (Eds.), LNCS vol 3611, p. 1250, Springer-Verlag GmbH, August 2005.

º K. Krishnaiyer, S. Hossein Cheraghi, "Ant algorithms: Web-based implementation and applications to Manufacturing System problems", in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis, July 2005.

º Smaine Mazouzi, Mohamed Batouche, "A Self-Adaptive Multi-Agent System for 3D Object Recognition", in AAMAS´05, Fifth European Workshop on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer-Verlag, Paris, France, March 21-22 2005.

º X. Zhuang, N. E. Mastorakis, "Image Processing with the Artificial Swarm Intelligence", in WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 4, Vol.4, pp. 333-341, ISSN 1109-2750, April 2005.

º F. Keshtkar, W. Gueaieb, A. White, "An Agent-based Model for Image Segmentation", in IRCE´05, 13th Multi-disciplinary Iranian Researchers Conf. in Europe, Leeds, UK, July 2005.

º Mirzayans, T., Parimi, N., Pilarski, P., Backhouse, C., Wyard-Scott, L., Musilek, P., "A Swarm-based System for Object Recognition", in Neural Network World Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 3, pp. 243-255, 2005.

º Sorin Cristian Cheran, Gianfranco Gargano,"Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Lung CT Using Artificial Life Models", in SYNASC 2005, Seventh International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC'05), 2005.

º Mark D. Alexiuk, Julie A. Raphael, Catherine O. Wiebe, Gordon K. Wiebe, "Sociological Modeling of Emergence - A Case Study of Homelessness and Best Practices in Single Room Accommodation in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver", BC/Yukon Regional Homelessness Research Committee, National Housing Initiative (NHI) + Supporting Communities Partnership (SCPI), Canada, March, 2005.

º Vander Frota de Castro, "Estudo da Plataforma de Simulação Multi-agentes SWARM", Universidade de Fortaleza - UNIFOR, Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas - CCT, Curso de Informática, Monografia de conclusão de curso, Fortaleza, Brasil, Junho de 2003.

º G. Da San Martino, F.A. Cardillo, A. Starita, "A New Swarm Intelligence Coordination Model Inspired by Collective Prey Retrieval and Its Application to Image Alignment", in Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX Proc., 9th International Conference, Springer-Verlag, LNCS, Vol. 4193, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 9-13 2006.

º JJ Ventrella, "Gliders and Riders: A Particle Swarm Selects for Coherent Space-Time Structures in Evolving Cellular Automata", in Stigmergic Optimization, A. Abraham, C. Grosan, V. Ramos (Eds.), Studies in Computational Intelligence (series), Vol. 31, pp. 131-154, Springer, Germany, Aug. 2006.

º Greenfield, G., "Genetic learning for biologically inspired aesthetic processes", International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 15 (4), pp. 577-598, 2006.

º Bisig, D., Unemi, T., "MediaFlies: an Interactive Flocking based tool for the Remixing of Media", in FLAIRS 2006 - Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, pp. 221-226, 2006.

º Zhuang, X., "Image segmentation by ant swarm - A case study of digital signal processing with biological mechanism of intelligence", in IEEE 11th Digital Signal Processing Workshop and 2nd IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, pp. 143-146, 2004.

º Christopher Middendorff and Matthias Scheutz, "Real-time Evolving Swarms for Rapid Pattern Detection and Tracking", in Artificial Life X - Proc. of the Tenth Int. Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, L.M. Rocha, L.S. Yaeger, M.A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R.L. Goldstone and A. Vespignani (Eds.), MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-68162-5, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, June 3-7, 2006.

º Laszlo Gulyas, Laszlo Laufer, Richard Szabo, "Measuring Stigmergy: The Case of Foraging Ants", in ESOA 06 - Fourth Int. Workshop on Engineering Self-Organizing Applications, Springer-Verlag LNCS series, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.

º Gary Greenfield, "Robot Paintings Evolved using Simulated Robots", in Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2006: EvoMUSART, Franz Rothlauf, Jürgen Branke, Stefano Cagnoni, Ernesto Costa, Carlos Cotta, Rolf Drechsler, Evelyne Lutton, Penousal Machado, Jason H. Moore, Juan Romero, George D. Smith, Giovanni Squillero, Hideyuki Takagi (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Vol. 3907, pp. 611 - 621 , Budapest, Hungary, April 10-12, 2006.

º JJ Ventrella, "A Particle Swarm Selects for Evolution of Gliders in Non-Uniform 2D Cellular Automata", in ALIFE-X, Int. Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, MIT Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, June 3-7, 2006.

º C. George and J. Wolfer, "A Swarm Intelligence Approach to Counting Stacked Symmetric Objects", in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
- AIA 06, Acta Press, Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 2006.

º Gary Greenfield, "Ant Paintings using a Multiple Pheromone Model", to appear in 7th International Conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges 2006 - Bridges 2006,  Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 23-25, 2006.

º Kim In-Kyeom, Yun Min-Young, "Improved Edge Detection Algorithm Using Ant Colony System", in The KIPS transactions. Part B, Volume b13, Issue 3, pp. 315-322, Korea Information Processing Society, June 2006.

º Simon Allen, "Modelling the Foraging Behaviour of Ants", BSc Hons in Computer Science, Univ. of Bath, UK, 2006.

º W. Fledelius and B.H. Mayoh, "A Swarm based Approach to Medical Image Analysis", in AIA ´06, Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Acta Press, Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 2006.

º Adrian A. Hopgood, "The State of Artificial Intelligence", Journal of Advances in Computers, Vol. 65 (1), Elsevier Inc., 2005.

º Renbin Xiao, Zhenwu Tao, "A Swarm Intelligence Approach to Path Synthesis of Mechanism", in CAD-CG ´05, pp. 451-456,  Ninth International Conference on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics, Hong-Kong, Dec. 2005.

º Wang Shugen Yang Yun Lin Ying Cao Chonghua, "Automatic Classification of Remotely Sensed Images Based on Artificial Ant Colony Algorithm", Computer Engineering and Applications Journal, Vol.41, No.29, pp. 77-80,116, 2005.

º Meng Zhi-gang, Han Yong-guo, "Application of Artificial Life in Image Segmentation", Journal of Ordnance Industry Automation, Vol. 24, nº 4, p. 59, 2005.

º Leonardo Bocchi, Lucia Ballerini and Signe Hässler, "A New Evolutionary Algorithm for Image Segmentation", EuroGP 05 - Applications on Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2005, Franz Rothlauf, Jürgen Branke, Stefano Cagnoni, et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, LNCS series, 2005.

º W.T. Chan, Y. Zhang, S.P.Y Fung, D. Ye, and H. Zhu, "Efficient Algorithms for Finding a Longest Common Increasing Subsequence", to appear in Proc. of the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2005), Sanya, Hainan, China, 19-21 Dec 2005.

º Pooyan Khajehpour, Caro Lucas and Babak N. Araabi, "Hierarchical Image Segmentation Using Ant Colony and Chemical Computing Approach", in Advances in Natural Computation, Lipo Wang, Ke Chen, Yew S. Ong (Eds.), LNCS vol 3611, p. 1250, Springer-Verlag GmbH, August 2005.

º K. Krishnaiyer, S. Hossein Cheraghi, "Ant algorithms: Web-based implementation and applications to Manufacturing System problems", in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis, July 2005.

º Smaine Mazouzi, Mohamed Batouche, "A Self-Adaptive Multi-Agent System for 3D Object Recognition", in AAMAS´05, Fifth European Workshop on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer-Verlag, Paris, France, March 21-22, 2005.

º X. Zhuang, N. E. Mastorakis, "Image Processing with the Artificial Swarm Intelligence", in WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 4, Vol.4, pp. 333-341, ISSN 1109-2750, April 2005.

º F. Keshtkar, W. Gueaieb, A. White, "An Agent-based Model for Image Segmentation", in IRCE´05, 13th Multi-disciplinary Iranian Researchers Conf. in Europe, Leeds, UK, July 2005.

º Charles E. White II, Gene A. Tagliarini, Sridhar Narayan; "An Algorithm for Swarm-based Color Image Segmentation", in Proc. IEEE SouthEast Conf., Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, IEEE Press, pp. 84-89, March 26-28 2004.

º Zhuang X., "Edge Feature Extraction in Digital Images with the Ant Colony System", CIMSA-04, IEEE Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence  for Measurement Systems and Applications, pp. 133-136, IEEE Press,  July 2004.

º C.E. Tuke; "Content based Semi-Invariant Search for Natural, Symbolic and Sketch Images", PhD Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of York, Department of Computer Science, UK, September 2004.

º R. Nachtegaal, "Communication-based Traffic Optimisation", Thesis at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, The Hague, Netherland, Dec. 2004.

º N.D. Monekosso, P. Remagnino, Chapter "A Collective Can Do Better" in 'Learning Coordination and Communication in Multi Agent Systems', Theory and Applications, World Scientific, pp. 215-233, 2004.

º Jurgen Brinkmann; (Efficient Analysis of Complex Problems through Nature Inspired Swarm Algorithms) "Effizientes Losen komplexer Probleme durch naturlich inspirierte Schwarm-Algorithmen", Master Thesis at Universitat Paderborn, Fakultat fur Elektrotechnik, Mathematik und Informatik, PAderborn, Germany, 28 September 2004.

º Zhuang X., "Image Feature Extraction with the Perceptual Graph based on the Ant Colony System", IEEE SMC 04, Int. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Press, Hague, Netherlands, October 2004.

º Paulo Eduardo Merloti, "Simulation of Artificial Ant's Behavior in a Digital Environment", San Diego State University, Artificial Intelligence Technical Report, CS550, San Diego, October 2004.

º Jeff Jones, Mohammed Saeed, Steve Lewis, "Emergent computation and image processing - Feature extraction patterns generated by the interactions between simple agents and their image environment", in MESM 2004, Middle Eastern Symposium on Modelling and Simulation, Marwan Al-Akaidi et al. (Eds), Dubai, UAE, Jan. 5-7 2004.

º Franck Gechter, Vincent Chevrier, François Charpillet, "Un Modèle de Résolution de Problèmes utilisant des Agents Réactifs pour la Localisation et le Suivi", in Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle - RIA, Sep 2004.

º Merloti, P.E., "Optimization Algorithms Inspired by Biological Ants and Swarm Behavior", San Diego State University, Artificial Intelligence Technical Report, CS550, San Diego, June 2004.

º C. Bourjot, V. Chevrier, T. Vincent; "A New Swarm Mechanism based on Social Spiders Colonies: from Web Weaving to Region Detection", in Web Intelligent and Agent Systems: An International Journal, WIAS 2003.

º Y. Semet, E. Lutton and P. Collet, "Ant Colony Optimisation for E-Learning: Observing the Emergence of Pedagogic Suggestions", IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Y. Shi, Russell C. Eberhart and  James Kennedy (Eds.), Indianapolis, USA, April 24-26., 2003.

º Jurgen Fripp, "Artificial Life and Agent based Modelling for Image Segmentation", Thesis submitted to the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland for the degree of Honours, Australia, October 2003.

º S. Aupetit, V. Bordeau, N. Monmarché, M. Slimane and G. Venturini, "Interactive Evolution of Ant Paintings", in CEC´03 - Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, Canberra, Australia, 8-12 Dec. 2003.

º Gregor Wenzel, "Filopodia Detection and Measurement for Normal Human Epidermal Keratinocytes on different Substrata", Diploma thesis for attaining the degree on Biology, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany 2003.

º N. Monmarché, M. Slimane and G. Venturini, "Fourmis artistiques ou l'art artificiel pictural et musical", in H2PTM-03, Hypertextes et Hypermédias, Réalisations, Outils & Méthodes, pp. 109-118, 2003.

º L.Moura, Henrique G. Pereira, "Aprendendo com a Stigmergia, a Auto-Organização e as Redes de Cooperação", in Challenges´03, III Conferência Internacional de Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação na Educação, 5º Simpósio Internacional em Informática Educativa, Braga, Portugal, 2003.

º Krishnan Krishnaiyer and S. Hossein Cheraghi; "Ant Algorithms: Review and Future Applications", in IERC´02, Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 2002.

º Tom Carden, "Image Processing with Artificial Life", MSc Thesis, Leeds Univ., UK, April 2002 (supervised by Seth Bullock).

º C. Bourjot, V. Chevrier, V. Thomas; "How Social Spiders Inspired an Approach for Region Detection", in AAMAS´02, 1st Inter. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy, July 2002.

º Raj Divakaran, "Potential of Ant Colony Optimization to Satellite Image Classification", Proc. of SwarmFest ´02, Seattle, Washington, USA, March 29-31, 2002.

º Emma Rozada, Joel Sandstrom, "Kantdetektion av Artificiella Myror - Emergent beteende eller inte?", Emergent Systems HT04 Project supervised by Jonny Pettersson and Anders Broberg, Umea University, Dep. of Computing Science, Sweden, 26 Jan 2005.

º C. Bourjot, V. Chevrier; "De la Simulation de Construction Collective à la Détection de Régions dans des Images à Niveaux de Gris: l’inspiration des Araignées Sociales", Actes de Journées Francophones sur l'Intelligence Artificielle Distribuée et Systèmes Multi-Agents, pp. 253-263, Montréal, ISBN 2-7462-0349-9, Hermès Science, 2001.

º Nicolai Marquardt, "Swarm-Intelligence: Modelle und Anwendungen", Seminar: VR-Technologien, Prof. Dr. B. Fröhlich, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Jan. 2004.

º Nicolai Marquardt, "Intelligenz von Schwärmen: Grundlagen, Simulations-Modelle und Anwendungen", Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Jan. 2004.

º Charles E. White II, Gene A. Tagliarini, Sridhar Narayan; "An Algorithm for Swarm-based Color Image Segmentation", in Proc. IEEE SouthEast Conf., Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, IEEE Press, pp. 84-89, March 26-28 2004.

º Zhuang X., "Edge Feature Extraction in Digital Images with the Ant Colony System", CIMSA-04, IEEE Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence  for Measurement Systems and Applications, pp. 133-136, IEEE Press,  July 2004.

º C.E. Tuke; "Content based Semi-Invariant Search for Natural, Symbolic and Sketch Images", PhD Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of York, Department of Computer Science, UK, September 2004.

º R. Nachtegaal, "Communication-based Traffic Optimisation", Thesis at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, The Hague, Netherland, Dec. 2004.

º Jurgen Brinkmann; (Efficient Analysis of Complex Problems through Nature Inspired Swarm Algorithms) "Effizientes Losen komplexer Probleme durch naturlich inspirierte Schwarm-Algorithmen", Master Thesis at Universitat Paderborn, Fakultat fur Elektrotechnik, Mathematik und Informatik, PAderborn, Germany, 28 September 2004.

º Zhuang X., "Image Feature Extraction with the Perceptual Graph based on the Ant Colony System", IEEE SMC 04, Int. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Press, Hague, Netherlands, October 2004.

º Paulo Eduardo Merloti, "Simulation of Artificial Ant's Behavior in a Digital Environment", San Diego State University, Artificial Intelligence Technical Report, CS550, San Diego, October 2004.

º Jeff Jones, Mohammed Saeed, Steve Lewis, "Emergent computation and image processing - Feature extraction patterns generated by the interactions between simple agents and their image environment", in MESM 2004, Middle Eastern Symposium on Modelling and Simulation, Marwan Al-Akaidi et al. (Eds), Dubai, UAE, Jan. 5-7 2004.

º Franck Gechter, Vincent Chevrier, François Charpillet, "Un Modèle de Résolution de Problèmes utilisant des Agents Réactifs pour la Localisation et le Suivi", in Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle - RIA, Sep 2004.

º Merloti, P.E., "Optimization Algorithms Inspired by Biological Ants and Swarm Behavior", San Diego State University, Artificial Intelligence Technical Report, CS550, San Diego, June 2004.

º C. Bourjot, V. Chevrier, T. Vincent; "A New Swarm Mechanism based on Social Spiders Colonies: from Web Weaving to Region Detection", in Web Intelligent and Agent Systems: An International Journal, WIAS 2003.

º Y. Semet, E. Lutton and P. Collet, "Ant Colony Optimisation for E-Learning: Observing the Emergence of Pedagogic Suggestions", IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Y. Shi, Russell C. Eberhart and  James Kennedy (Eds.), Indianapolis, USA, April 24-26., 2003.

º Jurgen Fripp, "Artificial Life and Agent based Modelling for Image Segmentation", Thesis submitted to the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland for the degree of Honours, Australia, October 2003.

º S. Aupetit, V. Bordeau, N. Monmarché, M. Slimane and G. Venturini, "Interactive Evolution of Ant Paintings", in CEC´03 - Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, Canberra, Australia, 8-12 Dec. 2003.

º Gregor Wenzel, "Filopodia Detection and Measurement for Normal Human Epidermal Keratinocytes on different Substrata", Diploma thesis for attaining the degree on Biology, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany 2003.

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º Krishnan Krishnaiyer and S. Hossein Cheraghi; "Ant Algorithms: Review and Future Applications", in IERC´02, Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 2002.

º Tom Carden, "Image Processing with Artificial Life", MSc Thesis, Leeds Univ., UK, April 2002 (supervised by Seth Bullock).

º C. Bourjot, V. Chevrier, V. Thomas; "How Social Spiders Inspired an Approach for Region Detection", in AAMAS´02, 1st Inter. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy, July 2002.

º Raj Divakaran, "Potential of Ant Colony Optimization to Satellite Image Classification", Proc. of SwarmFest ´02, Seattle, Washington, USA, March 29-31, 2002.

º Emma Rozada, Joel Sandstrom, "Kantdetektion av Artificiella Myror - Emergent beteende eller inte?", Emergent Systems HT04 Project supervised by Jonny Pettersson and Anders Broberg, Umea University, Dep. of Computing Science, Sweden, 26 Jan 2005.

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º Nicolai Marquardt, "Swarm-Intelligence: Modelle und Anwendungen", Seminar: VR-Technologien, Prof. Dr. B. Fröhlich, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Jan. 2004.

º Nicolai Marquardt, "Intelligenz von Schwärmen: Grundlagen, Simulations-Modelle und Anwendungen", Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Jan. 2004.

Note - The present research work is suggested as reading material at a KBA - Knowledge Based Agents class (Dr. William C. Regli), at DREXEL Univ., Philadelphia, USA. Also a citation is done on an article entitled "Artificial Neuron" at NebulaSearch.com.

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