Bioinspired environmental coordination in spatial computing systems

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 338-343

  Werfel, Justin ^a,b   Bar Yam, Yaneer ^a   Ingber, Donald ^b,c,d  

^a NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES; COMPUTING AGENTS; COMPUTING DEVICES; EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; INDIRECT COMMUNICATIONS; LIVING TISSUES; OBJECT-TRACKING; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPINGS; SPATIAL COMPUTING; SPATIAL PROBLEMS;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 64849101501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SASOW.2008.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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