Flocking in stationary and non-stationary environments: A novel communication strategy for heading alignment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6239 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages 331-340

  Ferrante, Eliseo ^a   Turgut, Ali Emre ^a   Mathews, Nithin ^a   Birattari, Mauro ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY; NON-STATIONARY ENVIRONMENT; SELF-ORGANIZED; SIGNALING MECHANISMS; SIMULATION-BASED; STATIONARY ENVIRONMENTS; SWARM SIZE;

EXPERIMENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78149237800     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15871-1_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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