Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Re: Communication models

[Vitorino RAMOS]

Darren, Parunak,

Thanks.
For more substantive info about Stigmergy please have a look on a special 
issue dedicated to the subject at ARTIFICIAL LIFE, MIT Press Journal, vol. 
5, issue 2, Spring 1999 
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=5&tid=616 . I also 
recommend the book "Swarm Intelligence" by Bonabeau and Dorigo.

For those looking on this type of indirect communication over dynamic 
environments, I also have a very recent work, here:
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_59.html and a related video 
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ICANN05-movie.gif

The work is compared with work based on social foraging in Bacteria.

Best, vitorino

~ v. ramos, http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos, "Interactions among 
many sporuliferous and ubiquitous abstractions may lead to increasing 
reality", V. Ramos, 2001.


At 19:30 24-06-2005, Parunak wrote:
> Darren, Vitorino,
>
> We offer a taxonomy of multiagent communications models that you might 
> find useful in the following paper:
>
> H. V. D. Parunak, S. Brueckner, M. Fleischer, and J. Odell. A Design 
> Taxonomy of Multi-Agent Interactions. In Proceedings of Agent-Oriented 
> Software Engineering IV, Melbourne, AU, pages 123-137, Springer, 2003. 
> www.altarum.net/~vparunak/cox.pdf.
>
> It categorizes agent interaction as direct vs. indirect and centralized 
> vs. decentralized; stigmergy falls into the indirect decentralized 
> category. It also relates communication to broader issues of correlation, 
> coordination, cooperation, and coherence.
>
> Best,
> Van Parunak


At 10:55 24-06-2005, Vitorino wrote:

> Dear Darren:
>
> Probably interesting to you as a lateral paradigm is the use of indirect 
> communication in a society via Stigmergy. The concept is one of the most 
> powerful examples of self-organization found in nature among real ants and 
> termites (eusocial insects) and widely use among the area of Swarm 
> Intelligence as well as in a variety of applications. Have a look for 
> instance here (PDF available):
>
> http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_58.html
>
> or:
>
> http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_42.html
> http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_29.html
> http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_39.html
>
> among other work examples. Hope these could be helpful. Best, Vitorino