Jean-Pierre Mano, Christine Bourjot, Gabriel Lopardo, Pierre Glize
Informatica 30(1), pp. 55–62
gennaio 2006
Self-organization is a growing interdisciplinary field of research about a phenomenon that can be observed in the Universe, in Nature and in social contexts. Research on self-organization tries to describe and explain forms, complex patterns and behaviours that arise from a collection of entities without an external organizer. As researchers in artificial systems, our aim is not to mimic self-organizing phenomena arising in Nature, but to understand and to control underlying mechanisms allowing desired emergence of forms, complex patterns and behaviours. Rather than attempting to eliminate such self-organization in artificial systems, we think that this might be deliberately harnessed in order to reach desirable global properties. In this paper we analyze three forms of self-organization: stigmergy, reinforcement mechanisms and cooperation. The amplification phenomena founded in stigmergic process or in reinforcement process are different forms of positive feedbacks that play a major role in building group activity or social organization. Cooperation is a functional form for self-organization because of its ability to guide local behaviours in order to obtain a relevant collective one. For each forms of self-organisation, we present a case study to show how we transposed it to some artificial systems and then analyse the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach.
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self-organization, stigmergy, reinforcement, cooperation
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Issues in Multiagent Resource Allocation (articolo in rivista, 2006) — Yann Chevaleyre, Paul E. Dunne, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Michel Lemaître, Nicolas Maudet, Julian A. Padget, Steve Phelps, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Paulo Sousa
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AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing
(01/01/2004–31/01/2006)
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Issues in Multiagent Resource Allocation (articolo in rivista, 2006) — Yann Chevaleyre, Paul E. Dunne, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Michel Lemaître, Nicolas Maudet, Julian A. Padget, Steve Phelps, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Paulo Sousa
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