Communications of the ACM
Swarm intelligence
Entropy and self-organization in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Connecting the Physical World with Pervasive Networks
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Engineering Mobile Agent Applications via Context-Dependent Coordination
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Anthill: A Framework for the Development of Agent-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Self-maintained distributed tuples for field-based coordination in dynamic networks
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Coordinating change of agents' states in situated agents models
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Combining Interface Agents and Situated Agents for Deploying Adaptive Web Applications
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Bio-Inspired Deployment of Software over Distributed Systems
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Towards a Methodology for Engineering Self-Organising Emergent Systems
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)
Cognitive stigmergy: towards a framework based on agents and artifacts
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Self-organizing multi-agent systems for data mining
AIS-ADM'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Autonomous intelligent systems: agents and data mining
An overview of AI research in Italy
Artificial intelligence
European research and development of intelligent information agents: the agentlink perspective
Intelligent information agents
Situated agents and the web: supporting site adaptivity
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Bio-inspired organization for multi-agents on distributed systems
BioADIT'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology
Environments for multiagent systems state-of-the-art and research challenges
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
A spatially dependent communication model for ubiquitous systems
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Environment-based coordination through coordination artifacts
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Motion coordination in the quake 3 arena environment: a field-based approach
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Situated agents interaction: coordinated change of state for adjacent agents
PaCT'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Parallel Computing Technologies
Spatial computing: an emerging paradigm for autonomic computing and communication
WAC'04 Proceedings of the First international IFIP conference on Autonomic Communication
Bio-inspired deployment of distributed applications
PRIMA'04 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim international conference on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Spatial computing: the TOTA approach
Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems
An architecture for MAS simulation environments
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Web sites as agents' environments: general framework and applications
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
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Swarm intelligent systems, in which the paths to problem solving emerge as the result of interactions between simple autonomous components (agents or ants) and between them and their environment, appear very promising to develop robust and flexible software application. However, the variety of swarm-based approaches that have been proposed so far still lacks a common modeling and engineering methodology. In the attempt to overcome this problem, this paper presents a general coordination methodology in which swarm's components are simply driven by abstract computational force fields (Co-Fields), generated either by agents, or by the environment. By having agents be driven in their activities by such fields, globally coordinated behaviors can naturally emerge. Although this model still does not offer a complete engineering methodology, it can provide a unifying abstraction for swarm intelligent systems and it can also be exploited to formalize these systems in terms of dynamical systems whose behavior can be described via differential equations. Several example of swarm systems modeled with Co-Fields are presented to support our thesis.