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The Amorphous Computing project is aimed at developing programming methodologies for systems composed of vast numbers of locally-interacting, 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.
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Nagpal, R. (2004). A Catalog of Biologically-Inspired Primitives for Engineering Self-Organization. In: Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Karageorgos, A., Rana, O.F., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Self-Organising Systems. ESOA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2977. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24701-2_4
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