Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Social Cognitive Maps

[Nelson Faria]

Hello Vitorino Ramos,

First I want to congratulate you for your excelent
work.

I read your paper, that is very interesting.

Can i put you a question?
- In a bee colony, i think that don't exists
pheromones, but the knowledge of the environment is
passed throw some type of movements in the nest to
indicate to flower fields. What type of model can be
used to simulate an bee colony?

Best regards,
Nelson Faria

--- Vitorino RAMOS <address@hidden>
wrote:

> 
> 
> Social Cognitive Maps, Swarm Perception and
> Distributed Search on Dynamic 
> Landscapes, CVRM-IST 127E-2005 technical report,
> final draft submitted to 
> Brains, Minds & Media, Journal of New Media in
> Neural and Cognitive 
> Science, NRW, Germany, 2005.
> 
>
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-BMM.pdf
> 
> ABSTRACT: Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of
> a systems whereby the 
> collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities
> interacting locally with 
> their environment cause coherent functional global
> patterns to emerge. SI 
> provides a basis with which it is possible to
> explore collective (or 
> distributed) problem solving without centralized
> control or the provision 
> of a global model. To tackle the formation of a
> coherent social collective 
> intelligence from individual behaviors, we discuss
> several concepts related 
> to self-organization, stigmergy and social foraging
> in animals. Then, in a 
> more abstract level we suggest and stress the role
> played not only by the 
> environmental media as a driving force for societal
> learning, as well as by 
> positive and negative feedbacks produced by the many
> interactions among 
> agents. Finally, presenting a simple model based on
> the above features, we 
> will address the collective adaptation of a social
> community to a cultural 
> (environmental, contextual) or media informational
> dynamical landscape, 
> represented here - for the purpose of different
> experiments - by several 
> three-dimensional mathematical functions that
> suddenly change over time. 
> Results indicate that the collective intelligence is
> able to cope and 
> quickly adapt to unforeseen situations even when
> over the same cooperative 
> foraging period, the community is requested to deal
> with two different and 
> contradictory purposes.
> 
> KEYWORDS: Swarm Intelligence and Perception, Social
> Cognitive Maps, Social 
> Foraging, Self-Organization, Distributed Search and
> Optimization.
> 
> hope u could enjoy it. best, v.
> 
> ~ v. ramos
> [http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/]
> 
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