The team of Dr. Abraham Kandel [http://www.cse.usf.edu/people/faculty/abraham_kandel/], who is now FIU faculty, will utilize the Instrument to foster their research on the empirical and theoretical investigation of Fuzzy Stigmergic Computational Techniques inspired by Nature, the solution of optimization-related problems developed by mimicking social insects' behavior, the exploration of how to bring swarm optimization methodology into the real-world self-assembly applications and autonomous agents, and the experimental investigation of the Fuzzy Diffusion Search, a novel swarm intelligence meta-heuristic that has many fuzzy similarities with ant and evolutionary methods.