@article{a7bade76c0de4ddd984b0cd481922942,
title = "Direction election in flocking swarms",
abstract = "Swarm formation and swarm flocking may conflict each other. Without explicit communication, such conflicts may lead to undesired topological changes since there is no global signal that facilitates coordinated and safe switching from one behavior to the other. Moreover, without coordination signals multiple swarm members might simultaneously assume leadership, and their conflicting leading directions are likely to prevent successful flocking. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first set of swarm flocking algorithms that maintain connectivity while electing direction for flocking, under conditions of no communication. The algorithms allow spontaneous direction requests and support direction changes.",
keywords = "Direction election, Flocking, Mobile robots, Swarms",
author = "Ohad Ben-Shahar and Shlomi Dolev and Andrey Dolgin and Michael Segal",
note = "Funding Information: Shlomi Dolev received his B.Sc. in Engineering and B.A. in Computer Science in 1984 and 1985, and his M.Sc. and D.Sc. in computer Science in 1990 and 1992 from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. From 1992 to 1995 he was at Texas A&M University postdoc of Jennifer Welch. In 1995 he joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University where he is now an full professor. He was a visiting researcher/professor at MIT, DIMACS, and LRI, for several periods during summers. He is the author of the book “self-stabilization” published by the MIT Press. He published more than two hundreds journal and conference scientific articles, and patents. He served in the program committee of more than eighty and he is an associate editor of several journals including the IEEE Transactions on Computers and the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication. His research grants include IBM faculty awards, Intel academic grants, the ISF and the NSF. He is the founding chair of the computer science department at Ben-Gurion university, where he now holds the Rita Altura trust chair in computer science and the head of the Frankel center for computer science. Shlomi serves as the dean of the natural sciences of Ben Gurion University, and the chair of the inter-university computation center of Israel. His current research interests include distributed computing, distributed systems, security and cryptography and communication networks; in particular the self-stabilization property of such systems. Recently, he is involved in optical computing research. ",
year = "2014",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.adhoc.2012.05.001",
language = "English",
volume = "12",
pages = "250--258",
journal = "Ad Hoc Networks",
issn = "1570-8705",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "1",
}