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Toward nature-inspired computing

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NIC-based systems utilize autonomous entities that self-organize to achieve the goals of systems modeling and problem solving.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 10
              October 2006
              85 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/1164394
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