Gerardo Beni

Gerardo Beni (born Florence, Italy 21 February 1946) is a professor of electrical engineering at University of California, Riverside who, with Jing Wang, is known as the originator of the term swarm intelligence[1][2] in the context of cellular robotics and the concept of electrowetting,[3] with Susan Hackwood. He also devised, with Xuan-Li Xie, the Xie–Beni index[4] for measuring the validity of fuzzy clustering.

He is the author of "From Swarm Intelligence to Swarm Robotics" in the book Swarm Robotics[5]

Beni is married to Susan Hackwood. They have two children.

  1. ^ "Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems". January 1993.
  2. ^ Beni, G., Wang, J. Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems, Proceed. NATO Advanced Workshop on Robots and Biological Systems, Tuscany, Italy, June 26–30 (1989)
  3. ^ Beni, G. and Hackwood, S., Electrowetting Displays, Applied Physics Letter, 38,4, pp.207–209, 1982
  4. ^ Xie, X.L., and Beni,G. A Validity Measure for Fuzzy Clustering, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 13, pp. 841–847, (1991)
  5. ^ ISBN 978-3-540-24296-3, DOI 10.1007/b105069, Springer.