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Introduction:

What is Emergent Behavior
Defined By John Saunders 5/2000

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eFloys . "This site may help to get started. There are both demos and deteiled documentations on how emergent behavior as well as evolution are simulated " Maintained by Ariel Dolan .

Intro to Artificial Life.In this article, Moshe Sipper has explained the concept and importance of emergent behavior to Alife

Emergent Behavior: Particles and Flocks Richard Parent discussed Emergent Behavior in his book: Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques


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Boids site by Craig W. ReynoldsBoids have been historical members of Alife zoo that show emergent behaviors(flocking). Reynolds's pioneer work has been extensively cited. This is an article appeared in "Scientific American"last year ARTIFICIAL LIFE: Boids of a Feather Flock Together

Ant Colony Optimization Ant colonies are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their component individuals, present a highly structured social organization. As a result of this organization, ant colonies can accomplish astonishingly complex tasks that could never be performed by a single ant. The optimization algorithm can be used for solving large complex problems. Insect Power: Software that imitates the behaviour of ants could make highway and telecom traffic more efficient

Swarm Swarm is a software package for multi-agent simulation of complex systems, originally developed at the Santa Fe Institute. Swarm is intended to be a useful tool for researchers in a variety of disciplines. The basic architecture of Swarm is the simulation of collections of concurrently interacting agents: with this architecture, we can implement a large variety of agent based models (much more compilcated than the simple emergent behavior).

Exploring Emergency By MIT media group A Java Applet Demo

Schooling Fish A Java Applet Demo

Boids At Coogee Beach

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