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The phenomenon of stigmergic collaboration (collective, distributed action in which social negotiation is stigmergically mediated by Internet-based technologies) is most surely still in its infancy and will continue to evolve with technology and its social/cultural applications. Further, it seems likely that this process will expand to include the pantheon of core media—text, audio, still and moving image—and will play an increasing part in the creation and dissemination of the entertainment, news, and policy of the future. Considering this, future research into the dynamics of stigmergy might focus on the cross-disciplinary transfer of knowledge from work carried out in the insect, robotics and artificial intelligence worlds in order to learn how to better apply and extend this new collaborative process."
from : journal.media-culture.org.au/0605/03-elliott.php.
Stigmergic Collaboration. Elliott_phd_pub_08.10.07.pdf. La stigmergie: un nouveau modèle de gouvernance collaborative. Si le modèle concurrentiel crée des redondances et gâche des ressources sur la protection des idées, la publicité et autre, le modèle coopératif gâche beaucoup de temps et de ressources à discuter et à discuter les discussions. Entre ces deux modèles, la stigmergie, une nouvelle méthode de gouvernance inspirée du mode d’organisation des insectes sociaux, pourrait offrir un modèle alternatif plus adapté à la collaboration dans des grands groupes. C’est quoi la stigmergie ? Définition de la stigmergie par Wikipédia : Application du modèle stigmergique aux organisations La théoricienne Heather Marsh a écrit un article remarquable sur l’application de principes issus de la stigmergie à la collaboration dans des grands groupes et comme une méthode de gouvernance alternative à mi-chemin entre les organisations fonctionnant sur un modèle de compétition celles fonctionnant sur un modèle de coopération.
Voici une copie de l’article traduit. Stigmergie Le problème des organisations actuelles Nœuds. Stigmergy. Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution – from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain. M/C Journal: "Stigmergic Collaboration: The Evolution of Group Work" Introduction 1The steady rise of Wikipedia.org and the Open Source software movement has been one of the big surprises of the 21st century, threatening stalwarts such as Microsoft and Britannica, while simultaneously offering insights into the emergence of large-scale peer production and the growth of gift economies. 2Many questions arise when confronted with the streamlined efficacy and apparent lack of organisation and motivation of these new global enterprises, not least “how does this work?”
Stigmergic collaboration provides a hypothesis as to how the collaborative process could jump from being untenable with numbers above 25 people, towards becoming a new driver in global society with numbers well over 25,000. Stigmergic Collaboration 3Pierre-Paul Grasse first coined the term stigmergy in the 1950s in conjunction with his research on termites. Collaboration is dependent upon communication, and communication is a network phenomenon. 1. 2. 3. 4. Non-Textual Mass Collaboration Conclusion. The Desktop Regulatory State. 1. Stigmergic Revolution.pdf. The Stigmergic Revolution. It was long believed that the queen played a central role in the complex social order of an ant colony, through the exercise of direct command and control over her subjects.
Not so. Biologist Pierre-Paul Grasse coined the term “stigmergy” for the anthill’s social organization There is no central coordination, no hierarchy, no administrative mechanism. Each ant’s behavior is entirely spontaneous and self-directed, as it responds independently to the chemical trail markers left by other ants. Mark Elliot, whose doctoral dissertation is probably the best study on the subject to date, applied the term “stigmergy” to any form of human socialization in which coordination is achieved not by social negotiation or administration or consensus, but entirely by independent individual action against the background of a common social medium.
Eric Raymond, writing on the open source software community, called it the “Bazaar” model. In the words of Neo, in “The Matrix”: Translations for this article: Stigmergic collaboration - Meta Collab. Stigmergic collaboration is the process of collaboration that utilizes an intervening encodable media such as a canvas, a word processing document, email or a wiki. Many if not most collaborative processes can be considered stigmergic collaboration as the use of encodable media is generally the norm.
The employment of such media typically extends a collaborative group's reach enabling more participants to work across greater spans of geography and time, as well as extending group's memory and capacity to engage greater levels of complexity. Several works on the subject are listed below. Stigmergic Collaboration: A Theoretical Framework for Mass Collaboration Edit Mark Elliott's PhD dissertation Abstract Edit This thesis presents an application-oriented theoretical framework for generalised and specific collaborative contexts with a special focus on Internet-based mass collaboration.
Stigmergic Collaboration: the evolution of group work Introduction Stigmergic Collaboration 1. Edit 2. Edit 3. 4. Macrowikinomics Murmuration. Wikipedia_as_a_complex_system.pdf. The home of stigmergic systems. This site was set up in 2001 to provide a record of the thinking behind the development of stigmergic systems. In 2004, work on new projects was halted in order to re-assess the theory in light of the new thinking coming out of neurological research. Brain imaging techniques were revealing that the functioning of the human brain is totally different from the way it had been envisaged in the twentieth century.
The old ideas, based upon systems theory and computer technology, were rapidly being replaced by a far superior theoretical model based upon new concepts of dynamic, complex systems. The implications for information technology are far reaching and it was decided that the next step forward should be to encompass all further work within these new theoretical frameworks. To this end, work has now started on practical examples to be developed in the stigmergic environment known as Second Life. The Primer link provides a brief synopsis (with an example) of the thinking in 2004. Stigmergy-WorkingPaper.pdf. OpenSourceStigmergy.pdf. Mark Elliott on stigmergy, citizen wikis, collaborative environments. General theory of stigmergy: Modelling stigma semantics | Artificial Life - Citation. Stigmergic Cognition. All things stigmergy Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research Join the Linkedin Stigmergy group: Agents interact with others and their environment to circumvent cognitive limitation.
Stigmergy is a property supervening on informational amplification and decay in complex adaptive social environments, environments that have sets of “search space” constraints. Stigmergic cognition is a socio-cognitive view (an externalist view) of knowledge and mind, necessarily dual aspect, that shows how individual cognition subject to cognitive and epistemic constraints, resolves the so-called ”coordination” paradox: that is, how does one reconcile the prima facie “chaotic” behavior of individuals with collective achievement, be it an anthill or an economy. Intelligence on a stigmergic account is distributed and manifest in the network of interactions among the individual agents and between individuals and their environment. Like this: Like Loading... Stigmergic dimensions of Online Creative Interaction. Biologist and computer scientist discover the 'anternet' | School of Engineering.
A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet. On the surface, ants and the Internet don't seem to have much in common. But two Stanford researchers have discovered that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the nest in much the same way that Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for the transfer of data.
The researchers are calling it the "anternet. " Deborah Gordon, a biology professor at Stanford, has been studying ants for more than 20 years. When she figured out how the harvester ant colonies she had been observing in Arizona decided when to send out more ants to get food, she called across campus to Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of computer science at Stanford and an expert on how files are transferred on a computer network. Harvester ants. Stigmergic self-organization and the improvisation of Ushahidi | manwithoutqualities. Here are some excerpts from Janet’s fascinating paper.
In late 2007 in Kenya, US educated Kenyan journalist Ory Okolloh had become one of the main sources of information about the election and the violence that broke out soon after. Because of the government‟s ban on live reporting and censorship of the mainstream media, Okolloh solicited information about incidents of violence from ordinary people in the form of comments posted on her personal blog. The mainstream media was not reporting on the violence because of the government ban, and Okolloh was quickly overwhelmed by the numbers of emails and messages that she received. In order to focus on the “immediate need to get the information out”, in early January Okolloh posted a request on her blog for help to develop a website where people could post anonymously online or via mobile phone text messages, the most accessible type of communications technology in Kenya.
Like this: Like Loading... Scientific Commons | A Community for Scientific Information. Solving the division of labour problem using and evolved heterogeneity (abstract) (2008) James, E. Noble, J. Watson, R. efficiently. This division of labour through is indeed what is seen to evolve during the simulations. Information and material flows in complex networks (2006) Helbing, Dirk Armbruster, Dieter Mikhailov, Alexander S. In this special issue, an overview of the Thematic Institute (TI) on Information and Material Flows in Complex Systems is given.
Evolving a Stigmergic Self-Organized Data-Mining (2004) Ramos, Vitorino Abraham, Ajith not easily accessible or possible to be found. , a kind of indirect communication and learning by the environment found in social insects... Swarms on Continuous Data (2004) KEYWORDS: Swarm Intelligence, Ant Systems, , Data-Mining, Exploratory Data Analysis, Image Retrieval, Continuous Classification.... Web Usage Mining Using Artificial Ant Colony Clustering and Genetic Programming (2004) Abraham, Ajith Ramos, Vitorino Roth, Martin Eric Bonabeau. A collectivly generated model of the world.pdf. Stigmergie | Nouvelle Donne. Les insectes sociaux, bien qu’étant extrêmement simples et ayant une activité réduite à l’exécution de fonctions basiques, sont capables de fabriquer des œuvres d’une grande ingéniosité. La question qui se pose est : comment des mécaniques aussi simples peuvent elles parvenir à un tel degrés d’organisation, d’ingéniosité et d’efficacité? Comment, sans leader intelligent possédant une vision globale et capable d’élaborer une stratégie, le comportement global de la colonie peut il être aussi coordonné et efficace ?
La réponse s’appelle la Stigmergie. « Stigmergie » vient de « stigma », piqûre, et « ergo », l’œuvre. C’est-à-dire : « l’œuvre stimulante ». Voici pour illustrer l’idée, deux mécanismes présents chez les fourmis : la réorganisation de l’activité par effet de seuil, et l’organisation des déplacements par le dépôts de phéromones. Organisation de l’activité par des seuils de déclenchement En fait, l’affectation des fourmis à une tâche fonctionne par effet de seuil. Wikipedia & politics of Mass Collaboration.pdf. Termite-Inspired Robots Can Build Unsupervised. Du Tag au Like: La pratique des folksonomies pour améliorer ses méthodes d ... - Olivier Le Deuff - Google Books.
Novel stigmergy structures in the Internet. The vast messaging structure called the Internet harbors many self-organizing multicellular digital structures. More evolve every year. And multitudes of "single cell" devices, PCs, laptops, iPod/Pad/Phones, Android smart phones, and various sensor and effector devices communicate with the many digital stigmergy structures discussed below. Linux source code, for example, can be thought of as a software termite mound, that is, a new kind of digital stigmergy structure.
Linux's source code is organized by the “blessed” Concurrent Versions System (CVS) repository that is under the control of the Linux “inner circle” (Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, etc). Clearly, the Linux CVS code tree is both built by, and helps to organize the efforts of, the worldwide community of Linux programmers. The Internet supports many other public stigmergy structures that are collectively managed and used by humanity[1]. Examples of emergent digital stigmergy structures in the Internet include: *Four architectural principles. Why is Open Access Development so Successful? – Stigmergic organization and the economics of information. Stigmergy - the secret of complex organization. Cooperation in multicellular systems requires information sharing.
Entities such as cells in a multicellular body, social insects in a colony, people in societies, or computers in the Internet do not generally obey commands from some central controller; they share information by indirect and distributed paths. Independent entities deposit long-lived cues in external structures that are subsequently sensed by others. The cues may be attached to connective tissue within one body, to surfaces of shared nests such as termite mounds, or placed in shared databases or web-sites as the case may be. Stigmergy structures provide persistent information that serves to organize the behavior of otherwise independent entities.
Illustrative examples in human societies include games such as chess. Chess pieces on a chess board structure the actions of chess players who interact with each other by changing the locations of the pieces. Stigmergy and "Self" Communication via Signals versus Cues. Biological system design. From the CD-ROM "Concepts and strategies" by Peter Small Modular route to complexity The ideas for creating stigmergic systems for the Web originated during the writing of the two books Lingo Sorcery and Magical A-Life Avatars (written for multimedia designers who wanted to learn how to use lists and objects).
The central theme of these books was to show how object oriented programming techniques can be used to develop products that went beyond a developer's imagination. This apparent paradox is resolved by using an evolutionary design strategy; creating modules (objects) and adding them - one at a time - to a growing interactive system. Such a strategy allows a design to emerge gradually out of a growing structure. It was found that designing systems in this way, resulted in productions that went not only beyond the designer's imagination, but also beyond the designer's ability to comprehend the growing complexity that begins to emerge.
Objects Understanding objects Creating a new generation. Acta Astronautica - Stigmergy based behavioural coordination for satellite clusters. Abstract Multi-platform swarm/cluster missions are an attractive prospect for improved science return as they provide a natural capability for temporal, spatial and signal separation with further engineering and economic advantages. As spacecraft numbers increase and/or the round-trip communications delay from Earth lengthens, the traditional “remote-control” approach begins to break down. It is therefore essential to push control into space; to make spacecraft more autonomous. An autonomous group of spacecraft requires coordination, but standard terrestrial paradigms such as negotiation, require high levels of inter-spacecraft communication, which is nontrivial in space. After outlining the system, an analysis of some crucial parameters such as communications overhead and number of spacecraft is presented to demonstrate scalability.
Keywords Stigmergy; Satellite cluster; Autonomy; Distributed; Coordination; Task allocation Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. Stigmergy. Kind people have stigmergically translated this article into German, French, and Spanish. This article is part of a series now incorporated into : ‘Binding Chaos’. Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent. In that way, subsequent actions tend to reinforce and build on each other, leading to the spontaneous emergence of coherent, apparently systematic activity. A personality based system can never allow for mass collaboration on a global scale without representation such as that seen in organizations like the United Nations. Currently, the typical response to a situation which requires an action is to create a noun, in the form of a committee, commission, organization, corporation, ngo, government body, etc.
Most systems are now run by competitive organizations. Hierarchical System Consensus Hierarchy Stigmergy. "stigmergy self-organization and sorting in collective robotics" Ei-ami-jan2004.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Stigmergy as a generic mechanism for coordination. Stigmergy. The home of stigmergic systems. Emergence in stigmergic and complex adaptive systems: A formal discrete event systems perspective | manwithoutqualities. Stigmergy | Search Results | Stigmergy. Sujet_SAR_RES_2011.pdf.