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Emergence of complex behaviour in swarms of mobile agents

In many practical situations, it is more efficient to conduct a given task by the swarm - a particular type of group of autonomous, mobile unmanned agents than by one agent or by humans. In order that the probability of successfull task conduction be acceptably large, often the software governing agents' behaviours needs to be structured in a particular way. In that way, the communication among agents as well as their processing of thereby collected information, needs to be properly structured. In this paper we analyse how the characteristics of the conducted task and its context are related to the principles underlying agents' software realisation, in particular their information processing functions. The emphasis is put onto how one can ground such functions into distributed, wirellesly connected low-capability agen hardwares.

complex systems; mobile agents; swarm behaviour; emergent behaviour

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