Stigmergy, Self-Organization, and Sorting in Collective Robotics
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by MIT Press in Artificial Life
- Vol. 5 (2) , 173-202
- https://doi.org/10.1162/106454699568737
Abstract
Many structures built by social insects are the outcome of a process of self-organization, in which the repeated actions of the insects interact over time with the changing physical environment to ...Keywords
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