Coordination in Distributed Building
- 4 August 1995
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 269 (5224), 686-688
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.269.5224.686
Abstract
A formal model of distributed building is presented that was inspired by the observation of wasp colonies. Algorithms have been obtained that allow a swarm of simple agents, moving randomly on a three-dimensional cubic lattice, to build coherent structures.Keywords
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