[Swarm Modelling] Hierarchical Swarms ...

[Gregory R Madey]

All,

Two questions:

1) In Minar, Burkhart, Langton and Askenazi (1996) the capability to build
hierarchical swarms is described. Can anybody point me to examples where
this has been done, especially with code (Java if available). I'm
interested both is simple educational examples and actual research
applications if they are available.

2) I heard Chris Langton (or maybe Roger Burkhart?) describe once how a
agent in Swarm could clone a copy of its external world and use it to
model future actions, e.g., in cognitive modeling studies. Are there any
papers (and/or code) that display this?

Thanks,

Greg Madey