Swarm (disambiguation)
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A swarm
is a group of animals that aggregate and travel in the same direction.
Swarm or swarming may also refer to:
Swarm
Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by animals of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction. As a term, swarming is applied particularly to insects, but can also be applied to...
is a group of animals that aggregate and travel in the same direction.
Swarm or swarming may also refer to:
Biology
- Swarming motilitySwarming motilitySwarming motility is a rapid and coordinated translocation of a bacterial population across solid or semi-solid surfaces. This type of motility is an example of an emerging concept in microbiology : bacterial multicellularity...
, a type of bacterial motility - Swarming (honey bee), the natural means of reproduction of honey bee colonies
Technology and computing
- Segmented downloadingSegmented downloadingSegmented downloading can be a more efficient way of downloading files from many peers at once. The one single file is downloaded, in parallel, from several distinct sources or uploaders of the file...
or swarming download, a more efficient way of downloading files from many peers at once - Swarm intelligenceSwarm intelligenceSwarm intelligence is the collective behaviour of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence...
, artificial intelligence technique - Swarm roboticsSwarm roboticsSwarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multirobot systems which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. It is supposed that a desired collective behavior emerges from the interactions between the robots and interactions of robots with the environment...
, approach to the coordination of multirobot systems - Swarm (ESA mission)Swarm (ESA mission)Swarm is a European Space Agency mission to study the Earth's magnetic field.The Swarm concept consists of a constellation of three satellites in three different polar orbits between 450 and 550 km altitude...
, a European Space Agency satellite mission to measure Earth's magnetic field - Swarm (simulation)Swarm (simulation)Swarm is the name of a multi-agent simulation package, useful for simulating the interaction of agents and their emergent collective behaviour. Swarm was initially developed at the Santa Fe Institute in the mid-1990s, and since 1999 has been maintained by the non-profit Swarm Development...
, multi-agent simulation package - SWARM (weapon system), a remote weapon system
- Swarming (military)Swarming (military)Military swarming is a behavior where autonomous, or semi-autonomous, units of action attack an enemy from several different directions and then regroup. Pulsing, where the units shift the point of attack, is a part of military swarming. Swarming is not limited to the human military realm...
, an approach of using "pulses" of converging autonomous or semiautonomous, manned or unmanned, combat agents onto a target
Other fields
- Earthquake swarmEarthquake swarmEarthquake swarms are events where a local area experiences sequences of many earthquakes striking in a relatively short period of time. The length of time used to define the swarm itself varies, but the United States Geological Survey points out that an event may be on the order of days, weeks, or...
, a series of earthquakes in one area - Minnesota SwarmMinnesota SwarmMinnesota Swarm is a box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League. The team plays on Treasure Island Field at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota....
, box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League - Swarm (spirit organization), a spirit organization for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Fiction and entertainment
- Swarm (comics)Swarm (comics)Swarm is a fictional character and supervillain, an enemy of Spider-Man in the Marvel Comics universe. A former Nazi sympathizer, his most notable physical feature is that his entire body is composed of bees....
, Marvel Comics supervillain - Swarm (Transformers)Swarm (Transformers)The Swarm is a creature in the fictional world of the Transformers: Generation 2 comic by Marvel Comics.The Swarm is a large, amorphous, black mass of particulate sized, corrosive organisms that travel from planet to planet, seeking out cybernetic life forms. Upon contact with other life forms, the...
, Transformer character - The Swarm (film), a 1978 disaster film about a killer bee invasion
- Swarm (TV film)Destination: InfestationDestination: Infestation is a 2007 Canadian-US made for TV production in the disaster film genre, directed by George Mendeluk...
, a 2007 TV film known as Destination: Infestation, but released on DVD as Swarm or Deadly Swarm - Swarm (band)Swarm (band)Swarm , formed after the demise of Death Angel in 1997 by former members Rob Cavestany, Andy Galeon and Mark Osegueda, who were joined by Michael Isaiah...
, American speed metal and heavy metal band - Swarm (1998 video game), action video game created by Reflexive Entertainment
- Swarm (2011 video game)Swarm (2011 video game)Swarm is an action-platform video game developed by Hothead Games and published by Ignition Entertainment. It was released March 22, 2011 for the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network and March 23, 2011 for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade...
, an action-platform puzzle game by Hothead Games