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Future Generation Computer Systems, 2000
Ant colonies, and more generally social insect societies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organization. As a result of this organization, ant colonies can accomplish complex tasks that in some cases far exceed the individual capacities of a single ant.
Marco Dorigo +2 more
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Ant colonies, and more generally social insect societies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organization. As a result of this organization, ant colonies can accomplish complex tasks that in some cases far exceed the individual capacities of a single ant.
Marco Dorigo +2 more
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Stigmergy in holonic manufacturing systems
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 2002Multi-agent coordination and control, as encountered in holonic manufacturing system implementations, can be classified according to two categories of agent interaction schemes. In the first category, agents explicitly interact and negotiate with each other. A well-known example is the contract net protocol.
Paul Valckenaers +4 more
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Human Stigmergy in Augmented Environments
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2013The potential of human computation may be stymied by a curious phenomenon that as the size of a group of collaborators increases, the efficiency of the group typically decreases. The study described in this paper tests our hypothesis that communication mechanisms are key to unlocking collaborative potential.
Kshanti Greene, Thomas Young
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Emergent holonic organization by stigmergy
6th International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST), 2012The goal of this paper is to bring forth a holonic organization for self-organization of holonic multi-agent systems with the support of stigmergy. An extension of the RIO model is confirmed by stigmergy to build self-organizing system that emphasizes the autonomy and cooperation of entities, thus more suited with a dynamic task environment.
Fariba Eftekhari, Nasser Mozayani
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Extended Stigmergy in Collective Construction
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2006We've described a scheme by which a swarm of robots can automatically assemble solid structures of square building blocks in two dimensions according to a high-level user-specified design. We discuss the use of extended stigmergy: augmenting the basic notion of stigmergy by increasing the capabilities of environmental elements.
Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal
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Stigmergy in Human Practice: Coordination in Construction Work
Cognitive Systems Research, 2013Stigmergy is a concept of coordination that may be employed to analyse human practice in complex work settings such as the building process. However, the concept of stigmergy was not originally developed in order to describe human practice, rather it was developed within the field of entomology i.e. the study of social insects.
Lars Rune Christensen
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The differential ant-stigmergy algorithm
Information Sciences, 2012Ant-Colony Optimization (ACO) is a popular swarm intelligence scheme known for its efficiency in solving combinatorial optimization problems. However, despite some extensions of this approach to continuous optimization, high-dimensional problems remain a challenge for ACO. This paper presents an ACO-based algorithm for numerical optimization capable of
Peter Korosec +2 more
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Multi-Agent Coordination and Control Using Stigmergy
Computers in Industry, 2004 This paper describes and discusses a novel design and a prototype implementation for manufacturing control systems, aimed at handling changes and disturbances. This novel design utilizes the concept of a multi-agent system.
Martin J. Kollingbaum +2 more
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Multi-agent Systems with Virtual Stigmergy
Science of Computer Programming, 2018We introduce a simple language for multi-agent systems that lends itself to intuitive design of local specifications. Agents operate on (parts of) a decentralized data structure, the stigmergy, that contains their (partial) knowledge. Such knowledge is asynchronously propagated across local stigmergies.
Rocco De Nicola +2 more
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MAS Coordination and Control Based on Stigmergy
Computers in Industry, 2007This paper discusses a multi-agent coordination and control system. The system implements the PROSA architecture [12] and uses a specialized approach to stigmergy. This approach is discussed in relation to more commonplace designs based, for instance, on negotiation protocols.
Bart Saint Germain +2 more
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