Re: [Swarm Modelling] Hierarchical Swarms ...

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Gregory R Madey wrote:

> 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).
Here's one.  There are many others that demonstrate various features in 
the mailing list archives.  

http://www.swarm.org/pipermail/support/2001-December/011410.html

> 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,
There's no single feature like.  They must have meant you could program 
it by iterating through the objects in a given Swarm's zone and copy 
them one by one in the `cognitive space' of the modeling agent.