SWARM FORMATION IN A MULTI-SWARM NETWORK CENTRIC WARFARE

The paper comprehensively explains the vital role of swarm intelligence in network centric warfare. It describes the various types of existing NCW swarms and proposes some new forms of this strategy to improve the efficiency of such critical environments. To accomplish this goal, the paper presents the NCW swarm taxonomy including different types of this strategy such as human swarm, swarm robots, sensor swarm, service swarms and swarm coordinating strategies together with their formation process in NCW related areas. We also take a look at the existing tools and infrastructures to implement these technologies in such heterogeneous environments.