Electing a leader in a synchronous ring
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Adaptive control: stability, convergence, and robustness
Adaptive control: stability, convergence, and robustness
Next century challenges: mobile networking for “Smart Dust”
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Communications of the ACM
Artificial Life
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Programming a paintable computer
Programming a paintable computer
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There is a growing need to study abstract problems in distributed multi-agent systems in a systematic way, as well as to provide a qualitative mathematical framework in which to compare possible underlying system mechanisms. It is therefore of interest to have a coherent theory of "local to global" in distributed multi-agent systems, one which is able to describe and to analyze a variety of problems. This is the second in a series of papers that begins developing such a theory. Here, we describe four divergent but representative "problems" - 1) equigrouping of mobile agents 2) flocking of mobile agents, 3) coordinate system labeling among fixed agents and 4) spatial structuring of mobile agents in simple but precise terms. We then introduce a unified modeling framework that captures the commonalities of the four problems. Our goal is to establish that the descriptive and analytical approach taken in the other papers in this series may be generalized to more complex and realistic problems.