The Swarm Application Framework
Abstract
The Swarm Application Framework (SAF) is a tool that makes the development of swarm applications more intuitive. Traditionally, swarm applications are created by programming several low-level rules. This approach leads to several problems in designing and testing swarms, which serve as inspiration for the features of SAF. SAF encourages a new paradigm for designing swarm applications: engineers can interact with a swarm at the abstract (swarm) level instead of the individual (agent) level. In this paper, we discuss the design of the framework, how agents and rules in SAF operate, and a planned rule abstraction feature.
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Miner et al. "The Swarm Application Framework." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.Markdown
[Miner et al. "The Swarm Application Framework." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2008/miner2008aaai-swarm/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{miner2008aaai-swarm,
title = {{The Swarm Application Framework}},
author = {Miner, Don and desJardins, Marie and Hamilton, Peter},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2008},
pages = {1822-1823},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2008/miner2008aaai-swarm/}
}