Swarm (disambiguation)

Swarm (disambiguation)

A swarm is a group of animals that aggregate and travel in the same direction.

Swarm or swarming may also refer to:

In fiction:
* Swarm (comics), Marvel Comics supervillain
* Swarm (Transformers), Transformer character
* Swarm, common name for Zerg, a vaguely insectoid race in the fictional "StarCraft" universe

In technology:
* Swarm (simulation), multi-agent simulation package
* Swarm intelligence, artificial intelligence technique
* Swarm robotics, approach to the coordination of multirobot systems
* Swarm, a group of peers connected to one another via the BitTorrent file distribution protocol
* Swarming (Military), an approach of using "pulses" of converging autonomous or semiautonomous, manned or unmanned, combat agents onto a target
* SWARM Remote Weapon System
* Swarm (ESA mission) [http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/EEUCM/Swarm_handout.pdf] , a European Space Agency satellite mission to measure Earth's magnetic field

In microbiology:
* Swarming motility, A type of bacterial motility

In other fields:
* Minnesota Swarm, box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League
* Swarm (video game), action video game created by Reflexive Entertainment
* Swarming (honey bee), the natural means of reproduction of honey bee colonies
* Swarm (spirit organization), a spirit organization for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

See also:

* The Swarm


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