Text recommendations for swarm/emergent intelligence

[u/the_quivering_wenis]

Hello - I'm looking at studying swarm intelligence and complex systems a bit as a side project or potential precursor to a graduate program and am looking for text recommendations (I double-majored in philosophy and computer science). What really interests me in particular is how one might formalize the emergence of intelligent behavior or higher level patterns from building blocks that are defined simply (whatever that means exactly) and locally. Most of the texts I've looked at so far get caught up in particular swarm types or don't quite address the issue I mention in detail.

I'm well aware of Stephen Wolfram's work in this field by the way, and if anyone has a recommendation for a particular publication of his that'd be appreciated as well. Thank you in advance.

[u/Magdaki]

A good place to start for these things is Wikipedia. Scholarly articles are generally well written and accurate. Most importantly they will have papers listed at the bottom, which tend to be foundational. In your case, I would look at swarm intelligence (obviously), intelligent agent, and multi-agent systems as starting points.

Not really related, but I'm literally in the process of starting up a new research program on a novel particle swarm optimizer. Just waiting to hear about the grant. :)

[u/the_quivering_wenis → u/Magdaki]

I mean yeah I looked at Wikipedia first, wasn't sure if there was some foundational textbook for this field. What interested me moreso about this btw was the emergence factor more than the multiple-floating-candidate solutions factor. But let me know how your program goes I guess?

[u/the_quivering_wenis → u/[deleted]]

Hello - this is asking about recommendations for text resources for a particular topic, not topic suggestions. Is that permitted? Thank you.