The dynamics of collective sorting robot-like ants and ant-like robots
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Digital pheromone mechanisms for coordination of unmanned vehicles
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Resource-aware exploration of the emergent dynamics of simulated systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Agents Swarming in Semantic Spaces to Corroborate Hypotheses
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Performance of digital pheromones for swarming vehicle control
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Pheromone learning for self-organizing agents
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Design patterns from biology for distributed computing
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Properties and mechanisms of self-organizing MANET and P2P systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Modeling and managing collective cognitive convergence
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
Understanding Collective Cognitive Convergence
Multi-Agent-Based Simulation IX
Emergent Behavior Control Patterns in Robotic Collectives
ICIRA '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications
Measuring stigmergy: the case of foraging ants
ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
Dynamic decentralized any-time hierarchical clustering
ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
Concurrent modeling of alternative worlds with polyagents
MABS'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Multi-agent-based simulation VII
Planning in collaborative stigmergic workspaces
ICCCI'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Computational collective intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part II
A survey of environments and mechanisms for human-human stigmergy
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Sift and sort: climbing the semantic pyramid
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Many multi-agent systems seek to reconcile two apparently inconsistent constraints. The system has a global overall objective. However, the agents have only local information to guide their actions. Such systems are presently more art than science. They often exhibit regularities (such as exponential convergence) that we do not understand, and we do not know how to improve their functioning in a disciplined manner. In this paper, we develop a simple statistical model for such systems that can enhance both our intuitions about their functioning and our ability to engineer them, and apply it to three systems that we have constructed.