Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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Adaptive Management of an Active Service Network
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Self-Organising Pattern Formation: Fruit Flies and Cell Phones
PPSN V Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
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Nature-Inspired Computing Technology and Applications
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The development of a multicellular creature from a fertilised egg is a spectacular example of creating organised complexity. The egg is a single cell with little 'pattern' while the resulting adult organism consists of up to 1013 cells of many varieties and is exquisitely ordered, sculpted and patterned. The management of large, distributed, dynamic, interacting systems and the creation and elaboration of ever greater complexity are vital goals for future computational systems. What lessons can be learnt from nature's successes and how might those lessons begin to be applied to telecommunications problems? This paper focuses on biological examples which can offer inspiration and those examples are then linked to possible application domains.