Reference
J. van Ast, R. Babuška, and B. De Schutter, "A general modeling
framework for swarms,"
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress
on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), Hong Kong, pp. 3796-3801, June
2008.
Abstract
Swarms are characterized by the ability to generate complex behavior from the
coupling of simple individuals. While the swarm approach to distributed systems
of moving agents is gradually finding a way to engineering applications, a true
successful demonstration of an engineered swarm is still missing. One of the
reasons for this is the gap between the complexity of the swarms studied in
fundamental research and the complexity needed for the application to
interesting control problems. In the majority of the research on swarm
intelligent systems, the moving agents in the swarm are modeled as simple
reactive agents. This model comprises too little intelligence to fully exploit
the potential of swarms. In this paper, a general comprehensive swarm framework
is introduced and related to the established state of the art. Such a framework
is novel and it is a first and important step in the development and analysis
of more complex and intelligent swarms.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{vanBaB:08-002,
author = {van Ast, Jelmer and Babu{\v{s}}ka, Robert and De Schutter,
Bart},
title = {A General Modeling Framework for Swarms},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation (CEC 2008)},
address = {Hong Kong},
pages = {3796--3801},
month = jun,
year = {2008}
}