A Catalog of Biologically-Inspired Primitives for Engineering Self-Organization

Abstract. The Amorphous Computing project is aimed at developing programming methodologies for systems composed of vast numbers of locallyinteracting, identically-programmed agents. This paper presents some of the building blocks for robust collective behavior that have emerged as part of this effort, and describes how organizing principles from multi-cellular organisms may apply to multi-agent systems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Radhika Nagpal
• Keywords: Amorphous Computing Project, ATAL 2003, Multi-cellular Organisms, Robust Collective Behavior