Re: Is anyone modeling human-human interaction with Swarm?

[gepr]

James Marshall wrote:

>   A  colleague of mine is currently investigating using Swarm on a
> project to model human-human interaction in the environment of an
> emergency call centre, looking particularly at the cognitive
> processes and communication involved. If anyone here is using Swarm
> for a similar purpose, please could they give me some details of
> their project? In order to make the decision to use Swarm, my
> colleague would like to be aware of similar applications, as most of
> the example applications of Swarm are more firmly in the artificial
> life field.
>   I'd be very grateful if anyone could help out as if the use of
> Swarm is approved it could mean a short-term contract in France as a
> Swarm programmer for me! Thanks in advance,

Hey James,
The guys at the Physical Sciences Laboratory at NMSU are using
Swarm to model things like community assembly (where a population
of humans with no unifying goal self-organize into a community
with some set of unifying goals).  They're basing their research on
sparse, noisy, and steganographic data and attempts to find
algorithms for finding patterns in that kind of data.  They're
augmenting this analytical approach with a simulation effort
(which is not really underway, yet) using Swarm.

glen
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