Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Artificial Life
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Programming with stigmergy: using swarms for construction
ICAL 2003 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Artificial life
Standing on the shoulders of ants: stigmergy in the web
Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web
Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition
Cognitive Systems Research
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Building Web 2.0 sites does not necessarily ensure the success of the site. We aim to better understand what improves the success of a site by drawing insight from biologically inspired design patterns. Web 2.0 sites provide a mechanism for human interaction enabling powerful intercommunication between massive volumes of users. Early Web 2.0 site providers that were previously dominant are being succeeded by newer sites providing innovative social interaction mechanisms. Understanding what site traits contribute to this success drives research into Web sites mechanics using models to describe the associated social networking behaviour. Some of these models attempt to show how the volume of users provides a self-organising and self-contextualisation of content. One model describing coordinated environments is called stigmergy, a term originally describing coordinated insect behavior. This paper explores how exploiting stigmergy can provide a valuable mechanism for identifying and analysing online user behavior specifically when considering that user freedom of choice is restricted by the provided web site functionality. This will aid our building better collaborative Web sites improving the collaborative processes.