Stigmergy
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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
