The swarm application framework

Authors:
Don Miner;Marie DesJardins;Peter Hamilton
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland;Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland
Venue:
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 3
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The Swarm Application Framework (SAF) is a tool that makes the development of swarm applications more intuitive. Traditionally, swarm applications are created by programming several low-level rules. This approach leads to several problems in designing and testing swarms, which serve as inspiration for the features of SAF. SAF encourages a new paradigm for designing swarm applications: engineers can interact with a swarm at the abstract (swarm) level instead of the individual (agent) level. In this paper, we discuss the design of the framework, how agents and rules in SAF operate, and a planned rule abstraction feature.