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PacoCheezdom writes "Intelligent Life has short summary of a demonstration by MIT professor James McLurkin of his new group-minded robots, which run an operating system called "Swarm OS." The robots are able to work together as a group not by communicating with all members of the group at once, but by talking only to their neighbors, and model other similar behaviors performed by bees and ants. I for one welcome our new robotic pseudo-insect overlords."
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  • There is a significant difference between ants and bees with regard to how they communicate. (There are other differences too, of course).

    This was part of the point behind my dissertation, since homogeneous agent-based intrusion detection systems were using ant-like communication based on stigmergy, while I utilized a "honey bee" model in order to encourage swarm intelligence and emergent behavior in the agents.

    Ants communicate by a process called stigmergy, in which they leave signs or markers such a pherm

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