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DIGITAL SWARM. “The swarm virus prototype, designed here, mimics a swarm system behavior and thus follows the main idea underlying the swarm intelligence algorithms. The information of the prototype's behavior is stored and visualized in the form of a complex network, reflecting virus communication and swarm behavior.” https://lnkd.in/d5Tah64 View in LinkedIn

SWARM MALWARE. “In this article, we outline a possible dynamics, structure, and a behavior of a hypothetical (up to now) swarm malware as a background for a future antimalware system. We suggest how to capture and visualize behavior of such malware when it walks through the file system of an operating system.” https://lnkd.in/d5Tah64 View in LinkedIn

HOST-PARASITE CO-EVOLUTION. "The organisms faced off against some pretty nasty viruses, ones that quickly overcame the easy ways of becoming resistant...This left only more and more complex options for co-evolving hosts. We thought to ourselves, maybe the organisms that were more readily adaptable than the others, more evolvable, would be the ones left standing at the end of the experiments...the long-lasting hosts were indeed more evolvable." https://lnkd.in/dkJprEM View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends on the extraordinary phenomena of flatfish metamorphosis. Next weekend will focus on chemical and genetic changes in this acrobat of disguise changes, and some of the physiological impact of this lifestyle. Perhaps the next time you have a plate of Dover sole, you will view its little body with greater sympathy and wonder. View in LinkedIn

TRIANGULATION OF SENSES. "It is known that balance in many upright swimming fish is sustained through interactions between the directions of light and gravity such that a typical fish will tilt towards a lateral light source until a new balance with its gravistatic senses is reached." https://lnkd.in/d9EMwRb View in LinkedIn

APPLICATIONS. “The application of swarm principles to robots is called swarm robotics, while 'swarm intelligence' refers to the more general set of algorithms. 'Swarm prediction' has been used in the context of forecasting problems.” https://lnkd.in/dhyYdJj View in LinkedIn

MORE EXAMPLES. “And VPNFilter, the advanced nation-state-sponsored attack, is also able to target SCADA/ICS environments. VPNFilter represents a significant new threat because it not only performs data exfiltration but can also render devices, including industrial control systems, completely inoperable. It can shut off compromised devices individually, or shut them all off simultaneously using a centralized trigger.” https://lnkd.in/dBM3R6W View in LinkedIn

SWARM INTELLIGENCE. “SI systems consist typically of a population of simple agents or boids interacting locally with one another and with their environment. The inspiration often comes from nature, especially biological systems. The agents follow very simple rules, and although there is no centralized control structure dictating how individual agents should behave, local, and to a certain degree random, interactions between such agents lead to the emergence of "intelligent" global behavior, unknown to the individual agents.” https://lnkd.in/dhyYdJj View in LinkedIn

SWARMS IN NATURE. “Examples of swarm intelligence in natural systems include ant colonies, bird flocking, hawks hunting, animal herding, bacterial growth, fish schooling and microbial intelligence.” https://lnkd.in/dhyYdJj View in LinkedIn

THE CONCEPT. “Swarm intelligence is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in the context of cellular robotic systems.” https://lnkd.in/dhyYdJj View in LinkedIn