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RSS swarmPeter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment And the autonomous, swarm killers are already under development. Compiled on the M6 driving to Birmingham, edited later in my hotel, and dispatched to silicon.com from Leeds via a free wi-fi service the next day. [28 Aug 2009]
A Swarm-Based Fuzzy Logic Control Mobile Sensor Network for Hazardous Contaminants Localization
White Paper This paper describes a swarm-based Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) mobile sensor network approach for collaboratively locating the hazardous contaminants in an unknown large-scale area. Simultaneously, by applying the three... [08 May 2009]
Minority Report: Rumour mill killing Apple
Comment In the very first edition of this column way back in 2004, I put forward the idea that one of Apple's greatest assets was the swarm of rumour and speculation that surrounded it constantly. Long one of Apple's greatest... [04 Feb 2009]
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News The KTN will consider how artificial neural networks can intelligently pull together evidence from different online sources and databases, and how particle swarm intelligence - inspired by the behaviour of flocks of... [05 Nov 2008]
Multimedia Streaming in Large-Scale Sensor Networks With Mobile Swarms
White Paper The swarm nodes have much higher capabilities than the sensor nodes in terms of both hardware functionalities and networking capabilities. Sensor networking technologies have developed very rapidly in the last ten years. [22 Oct 2008]
A BitTorrent-Driven Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
White Paper BitTorrent is a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol that utilizes a central server, known as a "Tracker", to coordinate connections between peers in a "Swarm", a term used to describe a BitTorrent ad-hoc file... [14 Oct 2008]
Photos: Military robot wars
Photo One of the runners up, Team Swarm, was awarded a prize for the most innovative idea. The swarm system is made up of a number of small, lightweight four rotor helicopters capable of viewing the area from... [21 Aug 2008]
Rational Swarm Routing for Mobile Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
White Paper Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANET) require dynamic routing schemes for adequate performance. This paper introduces a new dynamic routing scheme based upon stigmergy. In a similar manner to ant-colony based dynamic routing protocols,... [11 Jul 2008]
A Swarm-Intelligence-Based Intrusion Detection Technique
White Paper A Swarm-intelligence-based intrusion detection technique proposed to in order to reduce the misjudgment & misdetection and increase the real-time response in the existing intrusion detection techniques show. [25 Jun 2008]
10 Tips to Make Sure Your Firewall Is Really Secure
White Paper Digital intruders could swarm the opened ports, infect machines and even abscond with the intellectual property. Security studies back up this fact: It takes less than 20 minutes for an unprotected computer to be... [25 Jun 2008]
Termite: A Swarm Intelligent Routing Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
White Paper A biologically inspired algorithm named Termite is presented. Termite directly addresses the problem of routing in the presence of a dynamic network topology. In the Termite algorithm, network status information is embedded in the... [07 Sep 2007]
Mozilla: Firefox 'as safe as a condom'
News As security bugs swarm around the Firefox browser, volunteer marketers want to shore up the open-source project's security message with a safe sex theme. Eyeing the wave of bad press after Monday's reports of the Mozilla... [20 Apr 2005]
Harmonious 'bee-bots' win top gong for boffin
News The robotic swarm project is part of his doctoral thesis in computer science, and is part of an effort at iRobot, a Somerville, Massachusetts-based start-up. Swarming robots that can act in concert and mimic the... [27 Feb 2003]
Orange plagued by protests as SMS service is shut down
News Orange has whipped up a storm of controversy following its decision to kill one of the UK's oldest mobile communities. Locust' was set up in 1996 by Jon Anderson, who negotiated a flat fee with Orange for the sending of text messages. [10 Dec 2001]
BT living in a bacterial world
News The modern business person's desk is increasingly occupied by a swarm of small computing devices - mobile phone, PDA, laptop, and computer. Working out how these systems will interoperate will be a key challenge of the... [17 Sep 2001]
