Pattern formation in homogeneous and heterogeneous swarms: Differences between versatile and specialized agents

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, CI-ALife 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 311-316

  Magg, Sven ^a   Boekhorst, Renéte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DIVERSIFICATION; POPULATION COMPOSITION; ROBOT POPULATIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548783741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ALIFE.2007.367811     Document Type: Conference Paper

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