@InProceedings{spears99a,
  author =	 {William M. Spears and Diana F. Gordon},
  title =	 {Using Artificial Physics to Control Agents},
  googleid =	 {aASYPKtmdAMJ:scholar.google.com/},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the {IEEE} International Conference
                  on Information, Intelligence, and Systems},
  year =	 1999,
  month =	 {November},
  abstract =	 {We introduce a novel framework called "artificial
                  physics", which is used to provide distributed
                  control of large collections of agents. The agents
                  react to artificial forces that are motivated by
                  natural physical laws. This framework provides an
                  effective mechanism for achieving self-assembly,
                  fault-tolerance, and self-repair. Examples are shown
                  for various regular geometric configurations of
                  agents. A further example demonstrates that
                  self-assembly via distributed control can also
                  perform},
  keywords =     {ai physics},
  url =		 {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/spears99using.html},
  cluster = 	 {248936765054256232}
}