@inproceedings{b459c120ab86422abadcb084d8fa3490,
title = "Programmable self-assembly using biologically-inspired multiagent control",
abstract = "This paper presents a programming language that specifies a robust process for shape formation on a sheet of identically-programmed agents, by combining local organization primitives from epithelial cell morphogenesis and Drosophila cell differentiation with combination rules from geometry. This work represents a significantly different approach to the design of self-organizing systems: the desired global shape is specified using an abstract geometry-based language, and the agent program is directly compiled from the global specification. The resulting self-assembly process is extremely reliable in the face of random agent distributions, random agent death and varying agent numbers, without relying on global coordinates or centralized control.",
keywords = "Amorphous computing, Collective behavior, Morphogenesis, Paper-Folding, Pattern formation, Smart matter",
author = "Radhika Nagpal",
year = "2002",
doi = "10.1145/544741.544839",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781581134803",
series = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",
number = "2",
pages = "418--425",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents",
address = "United States",
edition = "2",
note = "Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2002 ; Conference date: 15-07-2002 Through 19-07-2002",
}