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===== Motivation ===== | ===== Motivation ===== | ||
- | Biological models have a number of interesting properties that can be useful in the design of robust and large-scale ambient intelligent systems. | + | Biological models have a number of interesting properties that can be useful in the design of robust and large-scale ambient intelligent systems. |
* The mechanism of coordination is fully decoupled from the entities (ants and termintes) such that if an entity fails the colony can still proceed with its task. Hence, the communication mechanism is robust with respect to failures. | * The mechanism of coordination is fully decoupled from the entities (ants and termintes) such that if an entity fails the colony can still proceed with its task. Hence, the communication mechanism is robust with respect to failures. | ||
- | * The communication between entities is local. | + | * The communication between entities is local. |
Other biological models exhibit similar properties with respect to scalability and robustness and should be considered as well. | Other biological models exhibit similar properties with respect to scalability and robustness and should be considered as well. | ||
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===== Further Reading ===== | ===== Further Reading ===== | ||
[1] Kindberg | [1] Kindberg | ||
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[2] Satyanarayanan | [2] Satyanarayanan | ||
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[3] Barron | [3] Barron | ||
+ | [4] Swarm Intelligence, | ||
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+ | [5] Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, ISBN: 0-684-86875-X |