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 | + | ** 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 14:13, 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
