Hi community. I want to read and learn about swarm intelligence. Can you recommend me links and books? If possible I want a book where I can follow examples and make applicationes with C++. Thanks!

Steering Behaviours might be what you're looking for.

arXiv is probably the a good place to start searching:
http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+AND+swarm+intelligence/0/1/0/all/0/1

@tonyg: I saw those behaviors in the book "Programming AI By Example". It's based in the Craig Reynolds's article. I'm looking for ant's behavior.
Thanks!

@Kambiz: I will look in those links.
Thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimisation

Swarm intelligence is a wide field. I wouldve recommended a book on Cellular Automatons if it werent for the fact that the gamedev forums were down for me.

Watch this video through, its good for visualization:

Hmm I thought that 'swarm intelligence' was a shotgun type mechanism to try to refine a solution (to overcome local maxima or minima or fitting for multi dimensional problems) There was a book by that name a few years ago.

http://www.swarmintelligence.org/SIBook/TOC.php#chap7

I personally like the "Boids algorithm". Never used it, but this is a nice place to start out.

http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

Google "Boids algorithm" and you'll find lots more.

That was already posted in the first reply. :P