Modern structured analysis
Minimalist mobile robotics: a colony-style architecture for an artificial creature
Minimalist mobile robotics: a colony-style architecture for an artificial creature
Cambrian intelligence: the early history of the new AI
Cambrian intelligence: the early history of the new AI
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
The Infeasibility of Quantifying the Reliability of Life-Critical Real-Time Software
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Probabilistic Model for Understanding and Comparing Collective Aggregation Mechansims
ECAL '99 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life
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SCAI '01 Proceedings of the Seventh Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Minimalist coherent swarming of wireless networked autonomous mobile robots
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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Design and code inspections to reduce errors in program development
IBM Systems Journal
From swarm intelligence to swarm robotics
SAB'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Swarm Robotics
Swarm robotics: from sources of inspiration to domains of application
SAB'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Swarm Robotics
A review of probabilistic macroscopic models for swarm robotic systems
SAB'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Swarm Robotics
From fireflies to fault-tolerant swarms of robots
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Reverse-engineering of artificially evolved controllers for swarms of robots
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
The Hand-Bot, a Robot Design for Simultaneous Climbing and Manipulation
ICIRA '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Distributed control of multi-robot systems using bifurcating potential fields
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International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation
Modeling complex emergent discrete event systems: a case study in robotic swarm motion
ACMOS'06 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS international conference on Automatic control, modeling & simulation
From swarm intelligence to swarm robotics
SAB'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Swarm Robotics
A review of morphogenetic engineering
Natural Computing: an international journal
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This review paper sets out to explore the question of how future complex engineered systems based upon the swarm intelligence paradigm could be assured for dependability. The paper introduces the new concept of ‘swarm engineering': a fusion of dependable systems engineering and swarm intelligence. The paper reviews the disciplines and processes conventionally employed to assure the dependability of conventional complex (and safety critical) systems in the light of swarm intelligence research and in so doing tries to map processes of analysis, design and test for safety-critical systems against relevant research in swarm intelligence. A case study of a swarm robotic system is used to illustrate this mapping. The paper concludes that while some of the tools needed to assure a swarm for dependability exist, many do not, and hence much work needs to be done before dependable swarms become a reality.