%0 Journal Article %T Nature inspired algorithms and artificial intelligence %A Elisa Valentina Onet %A Ecaterina Vladu %J Journal of Computer Science and Control Systems %D 2008 %I Editura Universit??ii din Oradea %X Artificial intelligence has been very muchinterested in studying the characteristics ofintelligent agent, mainly planning, learning,reasoning (making decisions) and perception.Biological processes and methods have beeninfluencing science from many decades. Naturalsystems have many properties that inspiredapplications - self-organisation, simplicity of basicelements, dynamics, flexibility. This paper is a surveyof nature inspired algorithms, like Particle SwarmOptimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)and Artificial Bee Colony(ABC). %K nature inspired algorithms %K particle swarm optimization %K and colony optimization %K artificial bee colony %U http://electroinf.uoradea.ro/reviste%20CSCS/documente/JCSCS_2008/JCSCS_2008_13_Onet_1.pdf