Stigmergic Collaboration: A Sign-Based Perspective of Stigmergy
Insects build architecturally complex nests and search for remote food by collaboration work despite their limited sensors, minimal individual intelligence and the lack of a central control system. Insets collaborations emerge as a response of the individual insects to Stigmergy. A sign-based model of Stigmergy to discuss collaboration is proposed in this paper where we picked up sign as a key notion to understand it. Therefore, sign is the link of all the components in a Stigmergic complex adaptive system. Based on this understanding, we propose a definition that reveals the nature of signs and exploit the significations and relationships carried by the notion of sign. Then, a sign-based model of Stigmergy is consequently reached, which captures the essentials of Stigmergy. A basic architecture of Stigmergy as well as its constituents are presented and discussed. At last, some applications of the model are discussed.
Stigmergy Sign Emergence Collaboration CAS
Chuanjun Ren Hongbing Huang Shiyao Jin
National Laboratory for Parallel & Distributed Processing, College of Computer Science National University of Defense Technology Changsha, 410073, China
国际会议
长沙
英文
2752-2755
2010-05-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）