The entire paper on the Buzz swarm language can be found here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.05946v2.pdf This paper gives an overview on the hierarchy used to go from individual robots to robots as swarms. It is interesting that they based their robot instructions on procedural languages, since it seems a more natural fit to functional languages such as J. Apparently, their claim is that procedural languages are easier to understand.
Cheers, bob On Jul 30, 2015, at 1:12 PM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > I think swarm programming is an another ambiguous buzzword like "database", > "cloud computing" and "pornography". We have an intuitive sense as to what > it should be but really can't be sure. Searching the web gave all sorts of > definitions. But doesn't J already have constructs to perform swarm > programming? Each (&.>) is a bottoms up construct, and Outfix (\.) allows > for interaction with neighbors. Even Rank can give a bottoms up approach. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
