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ICDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
The Swarm Scalable Storage System
Swarm is a storage system that provides scalable, reliable, and cost-effective data storage. Swarm is based on storage servers, rather than file servers; the storage servers are o...
John H. Hartman, Ian Murdock, Tammo Spalink
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Bee-inspired foraging in an embodied swarm
We show the emergence of Swarm Intelligence in physical robots. We transfer an optimization algorithm which is based on beeforaging behavior to a robotic swarm. In simulation this...
Sjriek Alers, Daan Bloembergen, Daniel Hennes, Ste...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A scalable and distributed model for self-organization and self-healing
As the ability to produce a large number of small, simple robotic agents improves, it becomes essential to control the behavior of these agents in such a way that the sum of their...
Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
ESAW
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using Swarm Intelligence in Linda Systems
Abstract. Natural forming multi-agent systems have the ability to grow to enormous sizes and perform seemingly complex tasks without the existence of any centralized control. Their...
Robert Tolksdorf, Ronaldo Menezes