@InProceedings{nagpal02a,
  author =	 {Radhika Nagpal},
  title =	 {Programmable Self-Assembly Using
                  Biologically-Inspired Multiagent Control},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the 1st International Joint
                  Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
                  Systems},
  year =	 2002,
  abstract =	 {This paper presents a programming language that
                  specifies a robust process for shape formation on a
                  sheet of identicallyprogrammed 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 =     {multiagent biology},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/nagpal02a.pdf},
  googleid = 	 {m_hC4vrfa2gJ:scholar.google.com/},
  cluster = 	 {7524353871083403419}
}