The increasing need for safe, inexpensive, and sustainable construction, combined with
novel technological enablers, has made large-scale construction by robot teams an active …

Stigmergy is a class of mechanisms that mediate animal-animal interactions. Its introduction
in 1959 by Pierre-Paul Grassé made it possible to explain what had been until then …

My major motivation to think about swarm robotics is the question of how probabilistic local
actions of small robots sum up to rational global patterns shown by the swarm. For the …

Complex systems are characterized by many independent components whose low-level
actions produce collective high-level results. Predicting high-level results given low-level …

Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving
systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents …

Why do some organizations learn at faster rates than others? Why do organizations" forget"?
Could productivity gains acquired in one part of an organization be transferred to another …

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text.
Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive …

As a ripple of light the fish turn. Like some animate fluid, the school glides and turns again.
The synchrony of motion is captivating. A similar integration of behavior can be seen in a …

Self-organization was introduced originally in the context of physics and chemistry to
describe how microscopic processes give rise to macroscopic stuctures in out-of-equilibrium …

The term “swarm” has been applied to many systems (in biology, engineering, computation,
etc.) as they have some of the qualities that the English-language term “swarm” denotes …