I mentioned this paper when it first came out a few years back. As we’ve put it before, stigmergic behaviour can be found from ants to economies. As someone with an overlapping interest in both stigmergy and sleep disorder, this technology seems very promising since it’s infinitely less intrusive than the clumsy and high-priced devices…
Given the significance of today’s date, I thought I’d repost details of a collaborator of mine’s paper in Cognitive Systems Research. 9/11Emergencehuman-human stigmergyNetwork topologySelf-organizationSimulationsituated cognitionSmall worldSocial networkSpontaneous orderstigmergicStigmergyTed Lewis
Here’s a recent paper citing Francis Heylighen who featured heavily in Ted and my Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research – Human-Human Stigmergy. Chris and I, though, did mention in passing urban sprawl as a prominent instance of stigmergy twelve years ago. stigmergy opens broader possibilities for analysis of the development of the city, its networks and…
As someone who more or less tracks the various (theoretical and practical) applications of stigmergy this one here is a first. I faintly grasp the issues in blockchain and cryptocurrency so I’m curious as to what stigmergy might bring to my understanding. Correspondingly, I’m curious as to what those in blockchain-crypto circles think of stigmergy?…
Interesting to see the theoretical inroads stigmergy is now making into the field of music. [t]he idea for this research is to create a new rhythmic generator technology. This system will be capable of generating multiple lines of percussion that sound natural. The synchronization will be self-organising and thus will be governed by a Stigmergic…
Just published in the Journal of Computational Science. complexitycomputational intelligencedistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeemergent orderSpontaneous orderstigmergicStigmergySwarm behaviorSwarm intelligence
Yet another article that detects a stigmergic dynamic within a digital domain, namely microblogging, made freely available via Sensors. distributed knowledgemicrobloggingspontaneous ordersstigmergicstigmergic cognitionStigmergy
This is the first time I’ve come across discussion of stigmergy in a fluid (water) context. Check out this freely available paper here. Stigmergy is a biological phenomenon that has been adopted by robotics, referring to environmentally mediated communication where information about building actions is encoded in the partially built structure. For example, beavers build…
A collection of papers on human-human stigmergy: Theoretical developments and new applications and From ants to economies and Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition. dispersed knowledgedistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgehuman-human stigmergyNetwork Sciencestigmergicstigmergic cognitionstigmergic epistemology
This from Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Stigmergy is finding ever more practical application. In this paper, we present an automatic tool for monitoring sleep behavior that uses a commercially available smartwatch, in order to sample heart rate and wrist inertial data, and a novel detection technique based on stigmergic receptive fields (SRFs). The SRF transforms…
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