But in swarm systems, positive feedback can lead to increasing order.
STROLL around any Mexican city for a while and you will notice a background hum like a swarm of angry bees.
It is the failure to mirror the distributed nature — the swarm nature — of life on Earth that is this model's greatest failure.
On these occasions, the community often emigrated en masse, or sent forth a swarm of its youth, to seek, sword in hand, for some less warlike people, who could be expelled from their land, or detained to cultivate it as slaves for the benefit of their despoilers.
The locust swarm has destroyed all the crops and vegetables.
In swarm systems with heritability, individual variation and imperfection will lead to perpetual novelty, or what we call evolution.
Q: You mean the earthquake swarm near Dujiangyan [a town near the epicenter badly damaged in the quake] in February 2008?
It's a swarm text.
The swarm-bearing man glided down a hill into a marsh.
These rules add up to another kind of swarm intelligence-one that has less to do with making decisions than with precisely coordinating movement.
Is it not really swarm intelligence?
A second later, the entire swarm veers west and away, as if steered by a single mind.
And the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts will swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail."
When the situation cleared up, they would swarm back, spread their tattered pieces of cloth and put their things on display.
Designing swarm controllers is generally quite challenging because there is no clear relationship between the individual robot behaviour and the resultant behaviour of the whole swarm.
That's the wonderful appeal of swarm intelligence.
It's exactly what the swarm bees do, which gives a group time to let the best ideas emerge and win.
If all goes according to plan, however, a team of biologists and mathematicians from the University of Sydney will soon descend on a swarm and try to resolve the mystery.
One publisher with a far better understanding of how people read on their phones, hascreated their own book with a faceless lead, a grunting alien swarm, and the requisite violence.
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