%T Mobile Processes in an Ant Simulation
%A  Eric Bonnici
%E Peter H. Welch,  S. Stepney,  F.A.C Polack,  Frederick R. M. Barnes,  Alistair A. McEwan,  G. S. Stiles,  Jan F. Broenink,  Adam T. Sampson
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2008
%X 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\[rs]s mobile processes
in the simulation of a
   classical ant colony.