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1999
IEEE
13 years 11 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 7 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 9 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»
14 years 2 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
14 years 21 days 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