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 intersect. The authors advocate and foresee more cross-fertilisation of the two emerging fields.

中文翻译：

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自然启发计算：概述和一些未来方向。


本文概述了自然启发计算 (NIC) 新兴领域取得的重大进展，重点关注基于物理和生物学的方法和算法。过去二十年的并行发展是计算智能（CI）领域的出现，主要由神经网络、进化计算和模糊逻辑三个领域组成。可以看出 NIC 和 CI 相交。作者主张并预见这两个新兴领域将有更多的交叉融合。