Stigmergy, self-organization, and sorting in collective robotics Export

@article{citeulike:3657427, abstract = {Introduction: Stigmergy is a concept occasionally used in biology to describe the influence on behaviour of the persisting environmental effects of previous behaviour. It was originally proposed by Grass\'{e} [12] to explain some of his observations on termite building behaviour. Grass\'{e} had observed that worker termites in the presence of particular configurations of a construction (and of other workers) would be stimulated to a high degree of activity, and would tend to add building material to specific parts of the construction. As the construction was changed by these additions, the site of addition of further material would be modified, leading to the progressive growth and completion of the feature; the termites would then switch to constructing another such feature, or would begin a new task apparently triggered by the presence of the completed feature.}, address = {Cambridge, MA, USA}, author = {Holland, Owen and Melhuish, Chris}, citeulike-article-id = {3657427}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=338956}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/106454699568737}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~wagner/index_files/OH_Alife99.pdf}, doi = {10.1162/106454699568737}, issn = {1064-5462}, journal = {Artif. Life}, keywords = {adaptive-systems, alife, behavior, biological-inspired-modeling, complexity, cultural-evolution, robotics, systems-biology, transmission-dynamics}, number = {2}, pages = {173--202}, posted-at = {2008-11-27 01:26:53}, priority = {2}, publisher = {MIT Press}, title = {Stigmergy, self-organization, and sorting in collective robotics}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/106454699568737}, volume = {5}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3657427 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3657427 N2 - Introduction: Stigmergy is a concept occasionally used in biology to describe the influence on behaviour of the persisting environmental effects of previous behaviour. It was originally proposed by Grassé [12] to explain some of his observations on termite building behaviour. Grassé had observed that worker termites in the presence of particular configurations of a construction (and of other workers) would be stimulated to a high degree of activity, and would tend to add building material to specific parts of the construction. As the construction was changed by these additions, the site of addition of further material would be modified, leading to the progressive growth and completion of the feature; the termites would then switch to constructing another such feature, or would begin a new task apparently triggered by the presence of the completed feature. IS - 2 JF - Artif. Life SN - 1064-5462 AD - Cambridge, MA, USA EP - 202 TI - Stigmergy, self-organization, and sorting in collective robotics PB - MIT Press VL - 5 SP - 173 KW - adaptive-systems KW - alife KW - behavior KW - biological-inspired-modeling KW - complexity KW - cultural-evolution KW - robotics KW - systems-biology KW - transmission-dynamics AU - Holland, Owen AU - Melhuish, Chris PY - 1999/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/106454699568737 ER -