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October 27, 2011collaboration, collaborative filtering, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, network theory, networks, self organizing systems, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, Vitorino Ramos

Spatio-Temporal Dynamics on Co-Evolved Stigmergy

Here’s a co-authored paper by one of the leading complexity theorists Vitorino Ramos.

December 4, 2009ants, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended cognitive systems, robotics, robots, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, the lives of ants, Vitorino Ramos

Small is beautiful

Over at Vitorino Ramos’ ever thoughtful blog is a post extolling the virtues of the “small”. The point is twofold: First, the superb detail afforded by the photographs that Vitorino has assembled shows a rather complexly “designed” creature – a design that belies the supposedly simple life-form that ants are typically taken to be. The…

October 2, 2008Economics, financial markets turmoil, stigmergy, swarm intelligence, Vitorino Ramos

Swarm Markets

Check out a preeminent swarm theorist’s take on the current turmoil on the financial markets. Makes a refreshing change from the sort of analysis you’d see elsewhere.