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

[Greg Madey]

Check out Business Week, September 21, 1998, p. 80. 

Greg Madey


On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, gepr wrote:

> 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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