Difference between revisions of "Stigmergy"

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** Medium: You need a medium that is sufficiently stable (cannot use air as medium)
 
** Medium: You need a medium that is sufficiently stable (cannot use air as medium)
 
** Medium: Medium must be accessible by all agents
 
** Medium: Medium must be accessible by all agents
** Asynchronous concept
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** Asynchronous nature (can also be an advantage)
 
** Reliability
 
** Reliability
 
* A list of applications would be needed
 
* A list of applications would be needed

Revision as of 15:13, 14 July 2010

Presented by Francis Heylighen

Concept

........... --- stimulate ---> ...........

MEDIUM ------------------ AGENTS

........... <--- action ------ ...........

Discussion issues

  • Lifetime
  • Evaporation
    • defined evaporation for ant foraging
    • no evaporation for SO encylopedia
  • Qualitative versus quantitative stigmergy
    • links in Wikipedia to non-exisiting articles
  • Number of agents
  • Local versus global memory
  • Shortcomings of stigmergy
    • Medium: You need a medium that is sufficiently stable (cannot use air as medium)
    • Medium: Medium must be accessible by all agents
    • Asynchronous nature (can also be an advantage)
    • Reliability
  • A list of applications would be needed