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Vol: 50(64) No: 2 / June 2005         Applications of Emergent Behavior Patterns on Intelligent Sensor Networks Razvan-Dorel Cioarga Department of Computer and Software Engineering, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, 2 Vasile Parvan Bv., 300223 Timisoara, Romania, phone: (40) 256 403271, e-mail: razvanc@dsplabs.cs.upt.ro, web: http://dsplabs.cs.upt.ro/~razvanc/ Mihai V. Micea Department of Computer and Software Engineering, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, 2 Vasile Parvan Bv., 300223 Timisoara, Romania, phone: (40) 256 403271, e-mail: micha@dsplabs.cs.upt.ro, web: http://dsplabs.cs.upt.ro/~micha/ Keywords: emergent behavior, emergence, emergent property, sensor networks, intelligent sensors. Abstract Artificial distributed systems employ sophisticated algorithms that are well matured and efficient but require a high degree of computational power. 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