Three-dimensional Directed Construction by Mobile Robots,
Justin Werfel and Radhika Nagpal,
Workshop on Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Sept 2006. (pdf)

The Emergence of Geometric Order in Proliferating Metazoan Epithelia,
Ankit Patel, Radhika Nagpal (Harvard) Matthew Gibson, Norbert Perrimon (Harvard Medical School)
Nature, 442(7106):1038-41, Aug 31, 2006 (abstract) , (pdf), (supplement), (movie1), (movie2)

Collective Construction Using Lego Robots,
Crystal Schuil, Matthew Valente, Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal,
Robot Exhibition, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) July 2006. (pdf)
Received Technical Innovation Award for "elegant connection of theory and design".

Distributed Construction by Mobile Robots with Enhanced Building Blocks,
Justin Werfel, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Daniela Rus, and Radhika Nagpal,
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2006. (pdf)

Extended Stigmergy in Collective Construction
Justin Werfel and Radhika Nagpal
IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(2): 20-28 (2006). (pdf)

Self-Organizing Shape and Pattern: From Cells to Robots,
Radhika Nagpal,
IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(2), 2006. (pdf)

Anthills Built to Order: Automating Construction with Artificial Swarms
Justin Werfel,
Doctoral thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2006
(Advisors: Radhika Nagpal (Harvard), Sebastian Seung(MIT)). (pdf)

2005

Firefly-Inspired Sensor Network Synchronicity with Realistic Radio Effects ,
Geoff Werner-Allen, Geetika Tewari, Ankit Patel, Matt Welsh, Radhika Nagpal,
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'05), November 2005. (pdf)

Building Patterned Structures with Robot Swarms,
Justin Werfel, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Radhika Nagpal,
Intl. Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '05), August 2005. (pdf)

Robust and Self-repairing Formation Control for Swarms of Mobile Agents,
Jimming Cheng, Winston Cheng, Nagpal,
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '05), July 2005.(pdf)

Towards a Theory of "Local to Global" in Distributed Multi-Agent Systems (I),
Daniel Yamins,
Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems Conferences (AAMAS), 2005. (pdf)

Towards a Theory of "Local to Global" in Distributed Multi-Agent Systems (II),
Daniel Yamins,
Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems Conferences (AAMAS), 2005. (pdf)

2004

Self-repair and Scale-independent Self-reconfiguration (for a modular robot),
Kasper Stoy, Radhika Nagpal,
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS) Sept 2004.(pdf)

Self-reconfiguration using Directed Growth (for a modular robot),
Kasper Stoy, Radhika Nagpal,
International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARs), France, June23-25, 2004. (pdf)

2003

Jonathan Bachrach, Radhika Nagpal, Micheal Salib, Howard Shrobe, Experimental Results and Theoretical Analysis of a Self-Organizing Global Coordinate System for Ad Hoc Sensor Networks, Telecommunications Systems Journal, Special Issue on Wireless System Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003.(pdf)

Radhika Nagpal, Howard Shrobe, Jonathan Bachrach, Organizing a Global Coordinate System from Local Information on an Ad Hoc Sensor Network, in the 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '03), Palo Alto, April, 2003, published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2634. (pdf)

Radhika Nagpal, Marco Mamei, Engineering Amorphous Computing Systems, invited chapter in Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems, editors Bergenti, Gleizes, Zambonelli, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003. (pdf)

Radhika Nagpal, Towards a Catalog of Biologically-inspired Primitives, Workshop on Engineering Self-organising Applications, Autonomous Agents and Multiagents Systems Conference (AAMAS), 2003, LNAI 2977. (pdf)

Radhika Nagpal, Attila Kondacs, Catherine Chang, Programming Methodology for Biologically-Inspired Self-Assembling Systems, in the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Synthesis: From Basic Building Blocks to High Level Functionality, March 2003, published as AAAI Technical Report. (extended abstract), (paper (pdf))

Lauren Clement, Radhika Nagpal, Self-Assembly and Self-Repairing Topologies, Workshop on Adaptability in Multi-Agent Systems, RoboCup Australian Open, January 2003. (pdf)

2002-

Radhika Nagpal, Programmable Self-Assembly Using Biologically-Inspired Multiagent Control, Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Bologna, Italy, July 2002. (pdf)

Radhika Nagpal, Programmable Pattern-Formation and Scale-Independence, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS), New Hampshire, June 2002. (pdf)

Radhika Nagpal, Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape Using Biologically-Inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics, PhD Thesis, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Memo 2001-008, June 2001. (ps)

Harold Abelson, Don Allen, Daniel Coore, Chris Hanson, George Homsy, Thomas Knight, Radhika Nagpal, Erik Rauch, Gerald Sussman, and Ron Weiss, Amorphous Computing, in Communications of the ACM, Volume 43, Number 5, May 2000. (html)

Ron Weiss, George Homsy, and Radhika Nagpal, Programming Biological Cells, in Eighth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Wild & Crazy Ideas Session, San Jose, California, October 1998. (pdf)