Nature Inspired Computing: An Overview and Some Future Directions

The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract This paper presents an overview of significant advances made in the emerging field of nature-inspired computing (NIC) with a focus on the physics- and biology-based approaches and algorithms. A parallel development in the past two decades has been the emergence of the field of computational intelligence (CI) consisting primarily of the three fields of neural networks, evolutionary computing and fuzzy logic. It is observed that NIC and CI inter-sect. The authors advocate and foresee more cross-fertili-sation of the two emerging fields