@conference {13473,
	title = {The swarm application framework},
	booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Student Abstract},
	year = {2008},
	month = {2008///},
	abstract = {The Swarm Application Framework (SAF) is a tool that makes the development of swarm applications more intuitive. Traditionally, swarm applications are created by programming several low-level rules. This approach leads to several problems in designing and testing swarms, which serve as inspiration for the features of SAF. SAF encourages a new paradigm for designing swarm applications: engineers can interact with a swarm at the abstract (swarm) level instead of the individual (agent) level. In this paper, we discuss the design of the framework, how agents and rules in SAF operate, and a planned rule abstraction feature.},
	author = {Miner,D. and desJardins, Marie}
}
