Eric Bonabeau, Founder and Chief Scientist of Icosystem Corporation, is one of the leaders in the field of swarm intelligence, complex systems and distributed adaptive problem solving. He has extensive experience in applying the concepts of swarm intelligence to real world problems such as factory scheduling, telecommunications routing, distributed optimization and various control problems. Eric's commercial experience includes years of research and development in US and European telecommunications and software companies as well as establishing Eurobios. He sits on the advisory board of several companies, including a number of Fortune 500 corporations.

Eric has a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Paris-Sud University in France, and he spent several years as a Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also an alumnus of the two premier French universities: Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. He is co-author of more than 100 scientific articles in international journals and conference proceedings, three books (Intelligence Collective, Hermès Sciences, Paris, 1994; Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems, Oxford University Press, 1999; Self-Organization in Biological Systems, Princeton University Press, 2000, and co-editor-in-chief of Advances in Complex Systems.

Eric Bonabeau's keynote address for SwarmFest-2004:
Exploratory design of collective behavior

Links to informatin about Eric Bonabeau and his work:

• Icosystem, Inc