Making Swarming Happen
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The concept of swarming has been invoked to describe both human military tactics and the behavior of simple biological systems. Most research on the underlying mechanisms of swarming is in the biological community, and it is often not clear how these can be implemented in military systems. This paper reviews several architectures that have shown promise for generating swarming behavior in military systems, and briefly discusses how to measure and control such activity.
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