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This paper modifies the WAVE model for parallel processing in virtual networks to explore and process continuous physical worlds. Expressing distributed activity by cooperative jobs spreading in space and “seeing” each other, rather than as vehicles exchanging messages, the model allows complex missions to be planned in a very flexible manner, with mobile hardware being assigned to the evolving space-conquering programs (waves) dynamically, when required or available. A number of cooperative scenarios in a physical world demonstrate the simplicity and compactness of the wave code. The execution of waves by mobile hardware is discussed, including run-time mapping of waves to vehicles, and supporting multiple distributed jobs in cases of hardware shortages. WAVE can be used efficiently for solving complex problems in space by organized groups of cheap specialized mobile robots, where intelligent behavior is provided by very high level of system organization rather than by the smartness of individual units. In a broader sense, it may also serve as a basic technology for parallel and distributed simulation, and the management of evolution and self-organization of large open systems of different natures.
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Sapaty, P.S. Cooperative exploration of distributed worlds in WAVE. Artif Life Robotics 4, 109–118 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02480865
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