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A Catalog of Biologically-Inspired Primitives for Engineering Self-Organization

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Engineering Self-Organising Systems (ESOA 2003)

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The Amorphous Computing project is aimed at developing programming methodologies for systems composed of vast numbers of locally-interacting, identically-programmed agents. This paper presents some of the building blocks for robust collective behavior that have emerged as part of this effort, and describes how organizing principles from multi-cellular organisms may apply to multi-agent systems.

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  1. Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Radhika Nagpal

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  1. School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College London,  

    Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo

  2. Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, 37 Glavani, 28th October Str., Deligiorgi Building, 4th floor, room D3/4, 382 21, Volos, Greece

    Anthony Karageorgos

  3. School of Computer Science/Welsh eScience Centre, Cardiff University, UK

    Omer F. Rana

  4. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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Nagpal, R. (2004). A Catalog of Biologically-Inspired Primitives for Engineering Self-Organization. In: Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Karageorgos, A., Rana, O.F., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Self-Organising Systems. ESOA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2977. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24701-2_4

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