Many Agents

• Another advantage is that a lot of agents can interact.
• You can manage it so that the agents are more than the sum of their parts.
• Flocking behaviour is an example of this.
• How do birds flock, or fly in formation.
• If each bird just tries to follow another, or tries to get to the middle of the group, you get reasonable flocking behaviour.
• You can do better than this, but that's an emergent property.
• A lot of things in AI are about emergent properties.
• This fits in well with the alife stuff.