See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour At a research company I worked at we used swarming concepts

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour At a research company I worked at we used swarming concepts for controlling swarms of sensors, robots, and UAVs. We also used ant colony optimization techniques mixed with genetic algorithms to do predictive intelligence. Really powerful stuff.