Difference between revisions of "Stigmergy"
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| + | ** Medium: Medium must be accessible by all agents | ||
| + | ** Asynchronous concept | ||
Revision as of 14:06, 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 concept
