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Many natural and man-made systems present emergent properties, where simple and repeated interactions among internals components lead to complex global behavior patterns. This emergent behavior can be explored by designers to reach application goals. This paper presents a wireless sensor network data gathering algorithm, which defines a set of simple rules to the nodes, achieving systemic behavior. That reduces messages exchanges and increasing network lifetime by reducing power consumption. Tests experiments demonstrated that the algoritm has a higher performance than similars techniques, in scenarios which the nodes has a failure probability.

Resumo. Vários sistemas naturais e criados pelo homem apresentam caracterısticas emergentes, onde as interaçoes simples e repetidas dos componentes internos geram padroes complexos de comportamento em nıvel global. Esse comportamento …