Bio-inspired emergent construction

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, SIS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 7-13

  Feitell, David ^a   Bai, Li ^a   Soar, Rupert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ROYAL CHAMBERS; STIGMERGIC MECHANISMS; STIMULUS-RESPONSE; TERMITE MOUNDS;

SELF ADJUSTING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745777608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIS.2005.1501596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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