Swarm intelligence powers in numbers

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 62-67

  Tarasewich, Peter ^a   McMullen, Patrick R ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0038241281     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/545151.545152     Document Type: Article

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