Bio-inspired Mechanisms for Artificial Self-organised Systems
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apice = {BioselforgInformatica30},
abstract = {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.},
author = {Jean-Pierre Mano and Christine Bourjot and Gabriel Lopardo and Pierre Glize},
crossref = {informatica30-1},
editor = {Omicini, Andrea and Paolo Petta and Matjaz Gams},
eissn = {1854-3871},
issn = {0350-5596},
journal = {Informatica},
keywords = {self-organization, stigmergy, reinforcement, cooperation},
month = jan,
note = {Special Issue ``Hot Topics in European Agent Research II''},
number = 1,
numpages = 8,
pages = {55--62},
publisher = {Slovene Society Informatika},
title = {Bio-inspired Mechanisms for Artificial Self-organised Systems},
url = {https://www.informatica.si/index.php/informatica/article/view/73},
volume = 30,
year = 2006
}
