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From: cs932003@ariel.cs.yorku.ca (S DAVID PULLARA)
Subject: Re: Flocking?
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In article <Cy18Dq.6Cr@cs.dal.ca> mitchell@ug.cs.dal.ca (Dave Mitchell) writes:
>Whoops! Now that I have the papers in front of me, I had my sources wrong.
>The Sims paper "Particle Animation and Rendering using Data Parallel
>Computation" was on particles (also an excellent paper, Computer Graphics,
>V24, #4, August 1990), the flocking paper I was referring to was "Flocks, 
>Herds, and Schools: A distributed behavioral model" by Craig W. Reynolds 
>(Computer Graphics, V21, #4, July 1987). Sorry about that. I still would
>like the info though!
>
>							Dave
>

Mr. Mitchell,

hello there!  My name's David Pullara, and I share your interest in
the "flocking" behaviour.  The Reynolds paper is one I'm looking for,
as well as several others.  Can you tell me how I can get my hands on it?
I'll also give you those other sources I'm looking for, in case they're also
of interest to you.  (I've taken them from "Artificial Life", in case you
haven't read it.)

Thank you, and good luck.

David

(here's the sources I mentioned, which may be of interest to you)

Brooks, Rodney A., "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot",
        IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, March 1986, 14-23
        [subsumption scheme]
Brooks, Rodney A., "Achieving Artifical Intelligence Through Building Robots",
        MIT AI Memo 899, May 1986. p.7
Connell, Jonathan, "A Colony Architecture for an Artificial Creature",
        MIT AI Technical Report 1151, Aug. 1989  [Herbert]
Mataric, Jaja J.,
        "A Distributed Model for Mobile Robot Environment-Learning and Navigation",
        MIT AI Technical Report 1228, May 1990
Steels, Luc, "Cooperation Between Distributed Agents Through Self-Organisation",University of Brussels AI Memo 89-5, June 1989
