The
team of Dr. Abraham Kandel [http://www.cse.usf.edu/people/faculty/abraham_kandel/],
who is now FIU faculty, will utilize the
Instrument to foster their research on the empirical and theoretical
investigation of Fuzzy Stigmergic Computational Techniques
inspired by Nature, the solution of optimization-related problems developed by
mimicking social insects' behavior, the exploration
of how to bring swarm optimization methodology into the real-world
self-assembly applications and autonomous agents, and the experimental
investigation of the Fuzzy Diffusion Search, a novel swarm intelligence
meta-heuristic that has many fuzzy similarities with ant and evolutionary
methods.