@InProceedings{Bonnici08,
  title =        "{M}obile {P}rocesses in an {A}nt {S}imulation",
  author=        "Bonnici,  Eric",
  editor=        "Welch, Peter H. and Stepney,  S. and Polack,  F.A.C and Barnes,  Frederick R. M. and McEwan,  Alistair A. and Stiles,  G. S. and Broenink,  Jan F. and Sampson,  Adam T.",
  pages =        "453--453",
  booktitle=     "{C}ommunicating {P}rocess {A}rchitectures 2008",
  isbn=          "978-1-58603-907-3",
  year=          "2008",
  month=         "sep",
  abstract=      "The term self-organisation, or emergent behaviour, may be
     used
to describe behaviour structures that emerge at the
     global
level of a system due to the interactions between
     lower level
components. Components of the system have no
     knowledge about global
state; each component has only
     private internal data and data that
it can observe from its
     immediate locality (such as environmental
factors and the
     presence of other components). Resulting global
phenomena
     are, therefore, an emergent property of the system as
     a
whole. An implication of this when creating artificial
     systems is
that we should not attempt to program such kinds
     of complex behaviour
explicitly into the system. It may also
     help if the programmer
approaches the design from a
     radically different perspective than
that found in
     traditional methods of software engineering. This
     talk
outlines a process-oriented approach, using massive
     fine-grained
concurrency, and explores the use of
     occam-\π's mobile processes
in the simulation of a
     classical ant colony."
}