ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A lot of scientists study the behavior of insect’s colony like ants, wasps and bees. Through these researches, it is possible to establish patterns used by a group of insects and apply these patterns in other domains. In this paper it will be showed the use of stigmergy in a rescue situation using the RoboCup Rescue simulator. We performed a set of experiments using a metaphor based on the behavior of an ant colony, where the communication between agents is done through the environment. We measured the performance of the ant-based algorithm, expecting to figure out the feasibility of using swarm intelligence in a rescue situation. We compared the results of using stigmergy against a multiagent system based on direct messages. The results showed that the use of stigmergy can outperform the use of direct messages.
November 15, 2012
Short URL Ant, Ant colony, Artificial intelligence, Biology, computational intelligence, Insect, multi-agent modeling, RoboCup, RoboCup Rescue, robotics, Stigmergy, Swarm intelligence stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy
Marge and my intro now available as an uncorrected proof. Stay tuned for the rest of the papers comprising this special issue.
According to Andy Clark “[M]uch of what goes on in the complex world of humans, may thus, somewhat surprisingly, be understood in terms of so-called stigmergic algorithms” (Clark, 1996, p. 279; 1997, p. 186). Pierre-Paul Grassé, the brilliant mind who first conceptualized the notion probably wouldn’t disagree (Grassé, 1959). Grassé was as much a zoologist as he was an entomologist. Under his editorship the monumental (17-volume) Traité de Zoologie, Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie was guided.
June 24, 2012
Short URL Andy Clark, Ant, Cognitive science, complexity, Grassé, Philosophy of mind, Pierre-Paul Grassé, social epistemology, Social Sciences, Spontaneous order, Stigmergy, Traité de Zoologie adam smith, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Don Lavoie, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, hayek, Herbert Simon, Margery Doyle, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy
The latest issue of Swarm Intelligence is now available featuring this paper “A speculative approach to parallelization in particle swarm optimization.” The original formulation of PSO is due to Kennedy, J., Eberhart, R. C., with Shi, Y. (2001). Swarm Intelligence. Morgan Kaufmann.
May 19, 2012
Short URL Swarm intelligence, Ant, Particle Swarm, Artificial Life swarm intelligence, complexity, computational intelligence, collective intentionality, particle swarm optimization, collaboration, swarm, swarm behavior, complex adaptive systems, collective knowledge, computer science
Readers with some familiarity with the eclectic content found on this website will be aware that the humble ant features strongly. Here is an article that offers a brief and accessible discussion of an excellent symposium to be found in Behavioral Ecology that features Mark Moffett’s work.
May 4, 2012
Short URL Ant, Ant colony, Behavioral Ecology, Laurent Keller, Mark W. Moffett ants, cognitive science, cognitive systems, complex adaptive systems, complexity, computation, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, spontaneous orders, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy
