Cognitive Stigmergy: Towards a Framework Based on Agents and Artifacts Export

@incollection{citeulike:4087430, abstract = {Stigmergy has been adopted in MAS (multi-agent systems) and in other fields as a technique for realising forms of emergent coordination in societies composed by a large amount of ant-like, non-rational agents. In this paper we discuss a conceptual (and engineering) framework for exploring the use of stigmergy in the context of societies composed by cognitive / rational agents, as a means for supporting high-level, knowledge-based social activities.multi-agent We refer to this kind of stigmergy as cognitive stigmergy. Cognitive stigmergy is based on the use of artifacts as tools populating and structuring the agent working environment, and which agents perceive, share and rationally use for their individual goals. Artifacts are environment abstractions that mediate agent interaction and enable emergent coordination: as such, they can be used to encapsulate and enact the stigmergic mechanisms and the shared knowledge upon which emergent coordination processes are based. In this paper, we start exploring this scenario introducing an agent-based framework for cognitive stigmergy based on artifacts. After discussing the main conceptual issues—the notion of cognitive stigmergy and the role of artifacts—, we sketch an abstract architecture for cognitive stigmergy, and outline its implementation upon the TuCS oN agent coordination infrastructure.}, author = {Ricci, Alessandro and Omicini, Andrea and Viroli, Mirko and Gardelli, Luca and Oliva, Enrico}, citeulike-article-id = {4087430}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71103-2_7}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/680g127886431453}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://unibo.lgardelli.com/publications/ricci2005a.pdf}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-71103-2_7}, journal = {Environments for Multi-Agent Systems III}, keywords = {ai, autonomous, collective, complexity, cooperative, emergence, group, self\_organizing, social, stigmergy, swarm\_intelligence, team}, pages = {124--140}, posted-at = {2009-04-09 19:08:40}, priority = {2}, title = {Cognitive Stigmergy: Towards a Framework Based on Agents and Artifacts}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71103-2_7}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:4087430 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4087430 N2 - Stigmergy has been adopted in MAS (multi-agent systems) and in other fields as a technique for realising forms of emergent coordination in societies composed by a large amount of ant-like, non-rational agents. In this paper we discuss a conceptual (and engineering) framework for exploring the use of stigmergy in the context of societies composed by cognitive / rational agents, as a means for supporting high-level, knowledge-based social activities.multi-agent We refer to this kind of stigmergy as cognitive stigmergy. Cognitive stigmergy is based on the use of artifacts as tools populating and structuring the agent working environment, and which agents perceive, share and rationally use for their individual goals. Artifacts are environment abstractions that mediate agent interaction and enable emergent coordination: as such, they can be used to encapsulate and enact the stigmergic mechanisms and the shared knowledge upon which emergent coordination processes are based. In this paper, we start exploring this scenario introducing an agent-based framework for cognitive stigmergy based on artifacts. After discussing the main conceptual issues—the notion of cognitive stigmergy and the role of artifacts—, we sketch an abstract architecture for cognitive stigmergy, and outline its implementation upon the TuCS oN agent coordination infrastructure. JF - Environments for Multi-Agent Systems III EP - 140 TI - Cognitive Stigmergy: Towards a Framework Based on Agents and Artifacts SP - 124 KW - ai KW - autonomous KW - collective KW - complexity KW - cooperative KW - emergence KW - group KW - self_organizing KW - social KW - stigmergy KW - swarm_intelligence KW - team AU - Ricci, Alessandro AU - Omicini, Andrea AU - Viroli, Mirko AU - Gardelli, Luca AU - Oliva, Enrico PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71103-2_7 ER -