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 cooperation recently (tit for tat wins prisoner’s dilemma) you must be familiar w/this, yes?”
There’s really three different (but related) ideas in this question:
- Decentralized and emergent behavior
- Evolutionary computation
- Game theory and cooperation
I’ll take them one at a time, with more on the first of the three, at least for now.
