Swarm Behaviour - an Intelligent Tool in Tackling Challenges

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AbstractTEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More. The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict and how to reach our potential in a collective coordinated way. A swarm is a collection behavior of moving together in same direction. It involves process of mutual trust, communication and interaction. It shows a path that how the team can solve the complex problem through the collective behavior. Natural examples of Swarm Intelligence SI include ant colonies, bird flocking, animal herding, bacterial growth and fish schooling. Swarms can achieve things that an individual cannot. It is the natural way of dealing with complex problem that can be solved by collective behavior.Keywords: Swarm Intelligence, Biological Motivation, Team effort, Human Behavior, Challenges.IntroductionAn individual may be worthless and inexpensive but with local interactions, change can be amazingly dynamic. Swarm behavior is a distributed system of interacting autonomous agents that can achieve goals, performance optimization and robustness through self-organized control, cooperation (decentralized) and division of labor through distributed task allocation and indirect interactions. SI is inspired by nature like colonies of ants, swarm of bees, school of fishes and flocks of geese to understand how they work together and distribute complex problem into smaller solutions. This is what as managers we need to understand that the complex problems can only be solved by swarm behavior and responding to challenges in a more coordinated way.Swarm Intelligence SI in Animal BehaviorSI is inspired by group work like colonies of ant, flock of geese and school of fishes to know the practical way of adapting to solve nature's problems. Social Intelligence helps to solve complex problems in a better and easier way. It refers to a kind of problem-solving ability that emerges in the interactions of simple information-processing units. It is a process of solving problem collectively which is impossible to be solved by individual units. The role of SI is to inquire about a assortment of options, encourage free antagonism and use effective system to taper the preference. The ants can converse with each other by the odor of their body. The ants find the undeviating path with a simple behavior by laying and following a pathway of pheromones.Swarm Intelligence in Bees* Colony cooperation* Regulate hive temperature* Efficiency via Specialization: division of labor in the colony* Communication: Food sources are exploited according to quality and distance from the hive.Swarm Intelligence in Wasps* Pulp foragers, water foragers and builders* Complex nests* Horizontal columns* Protective covering* Central entrance hole.Swarm Intelligence in Ants* Organizing highways to and from their foraging sites by leaving pheromone trail* Form chains from their own bodies to create a bridge to pull and hold leafs together with silk* Division of labor between major and minor ants.Swarm Intelligence in Insects* Flexible* Robust* Decentralized* Self-Organized.The complexity and sophistication of Self-Organization is carried out with no clear leader. What we leam about social insects can be applied to the field of Intelligent System Design. The modeling of social insects by means of SelfOrganization can help design artificial distributed problem solving devices. This is also known as Swarm Intelligent System.With a change in the environment, swarm intelligent systems will adapt to this change and find the new optimal solution.Why Swarm Intelligence behavior needed in organization?When it became evident that effective leaders did not seem to have a particular set of distinguishing traits, researchers tried to isolate the behavior characteristic of effective leadership style. …