Progress Report 5 : 30 August 2005 Emergent behaviour in virtual agents

(by Colin Chibaya)

• 
  Revising some of the articles we discussed before in an attempt to identify common and contradicting arguments between different authors thereby continuing to build my research notes
  
• 
  Continue improving my literature through further reading of related articles.
  
• 
  Read about various implementation strategies and design methodologies used in amorphous computing and pattern formation algorithms.
  

I have been revising and analysing some of the articles we have already recommended and I find this quite helpful and essential for my research notes. We also looked at another new article which will contribute a lot to the structure and content of the related work. The following articles have so far been fully analysed.

• 
  Amorphous Computing by Harold Abelson et. al , 2000
  
• 
  Collective Effects on Individual Behaviour : 3 questions in the search for
  

• 
  Towards programmable material, Rhadhika Nagpal, 2000
  
• 
  Robots in Formation using Local Information, Jakob Fredslund,2002
  
• 
  The Behavioural Self-Organization of Nanorobots Using Local Rules, M.
  

• 
  Organizing a global coordinate system from local information on an amorphous
  

• 
  Cooperative mobile robotics : Antecedents and directions, Y. Uny Cao, Alex S.
  

Some time was spent adding and revising some features on my website.

No problems were encountered