AMORPHOUS COMPUTING AND SWARM INTELLIGENCE

ABSTRACT
Amorphous computing consists of a multitude of interacting computers with modest computing
power and memory, and modules for intercommunication. These collections of devices are known
as swarms. The desired coherent global behaviour of the computer is achieved from the local
interactions between the individual agents. The global behaviour of these vast numbers of unreliable
agents is resilient to a small fraction of misbehaving agents and noisy and intimidating
environment. This makes them highly useful for sensor networks, MEMS, internet nodes, etc. The
ideas for amorphous computing have been derived from swarm behaviour of social organisms like
the ants, bees and bacteria. Recently, biologists and computer scientists studying artificial life have
modelled biological swarms to understand how such social animals interact, achieve goals and
evolve. A certain level of intelligence,exceeding those of the individual agents, results from the
swarm behaviour. Amorphous Computing is a established with a collection of computing particles
-with modest memory and computing power- spread out over a geographical space and running
identical programs.
Swarm Intelligence may be derived from the randomness, repulsion and unpredictability of the
agents, thereby resulting in diverse solutions to the problem. There are no known criteria to evaluate
swarm intelligence performance.

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B.PALLAVI
18SS1A0506