Stigmergy: Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research

collaboration, collaborative filtering, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, network theory, networks, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Here is the line-up for the forthcoming special issue of Cognitive Systems Research Marge Doyle and I have just edited. It’s been a long time coming because of the highly technical nature of some of the papers not to mention the various disciplines involved.

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Stigmergy 3.0: From Ants to Economies – Margery Doyle, Cognitive Research Scientist/ Leslie Marsh, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Cognitive Stigmergy: A Study of Emergence of Social Structure in Small Groups – Ted Lewis, Professor of Computer Science and Executive Director, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School

Emergence in Stigmergic and Complex Adaptive Systems: A Formal Discrete Event Systems Perspective – Saurabh Mittal, Founder and Principal Scientist, Dunip Technologies, Tempe, AZ

Stigmergy in Human Practice: Coordination in Construction Work – Lars Rune Christensen, Global Interaction Research Initiative, Technologies in Practice Group, University of Copenhagen

Stigmergic Self-organization and the Improvisation of Ushahidi – Janet Marsden, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University

Stigmergic Dimensions of Online Creative Interaction – Jimmy Secretan, Principal Scientist, Korrelate, Orlando.