Tag Archives: insects

Decentralized, distributed systems, evolutionary computation, and prisoner’s dilemma

Posted on 8 Feb 08 by Phi

Chris posted some cool questions on my earlier post about decentralized behavior in social insects: so what kinds of things do computer scientists do w/this idea? is sort of what evolutionary computing is about? i picked up the evolution of … Continue reading →

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I think my head is full of ants

Posted on 11 Jan 08 by Phi

As many of my students can attest, I’ve always loved emergent behavior where you have a whole bunch of “stupid” agents working with simple rules, but the end result is amazingly complex and wondrous. There are termites, for example, that … Continue reading →

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