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Book SynopsisPart 1 Thinking Swarm: Foundations.- Chapter 1 Thinking about Thinking Swarms.- Chapter 2 Understanding the Roots of Swarm Intelligence in Defence to Find the Path Forward: A Scientometric Study of Autonomous Systems.- Chapter 3 Definitions, Sources and Categorisations for Thinking Swarms.- Chapter 4 A Philosophical Analysis of “Thinking Swarms”.- Chapter 5 Robots as Research and Drones as War: Unpacking Metaphors from Media Coverage of Swarm Technology.- Part 2 Thinking Swarm: Behaviour.- Chapter 6 Swarm Hermeneutics: A Preliminary Review.- Chapter 7 Identifying and Predicting Hidden Coordinated Behaviour Using Synthetic Language Narrative Models.- Chapter 8 Intelligent Swarming Narratives: Situating ‘Noise’ within Interacting Information Fields.- Chapter 9 Regulating Maritime Autonomous Swarms.- Chapter 10 An Approach to the Legal Review of Autonomous Swarms: The legal implications for designing thinking swarms in armed conflict.- Part 3 Thinking Swarm: Topology and Architecture.- Chapter 11 Cognitive Architecture of Aware System of Systems.- Chapter 12 Trochoids: Spirograph, Multi-agent Formation and Beyond.- Chapter 13 The Barriers and Opportunities of Effective Underwater Autonomous Swarms.- Part 4 Thinking Swarm: Cognition.- Chapter 14 Introducing Lifelong Learning in Swarm Robotics.- Chapter 15 Learner-centred, Teacher-centred and Blended Curriculum Design in Swarm Systems.- Chapter 16 Hyper-teaming: Adaptive Teaming and Coordination of Multi-domain Autonomous Robotic Systems.- Part 5 Thinking Swarm: Way Forward.- Chapter 17 Future Directions.
