StrategicPlan2014.pdf. Aiden Dipple - Stigmergy in Web 2.0: A Model for Site Dynamics. Optimity Advisors. WIKI MANAGEMENT - A New Book From Rod Collins. WIKI MANAGEMENT - A New Book From Rod Collins. How Ant Colonies Get Things Done. Elliott_phd_pub_081007.pdf. My PhD. Citation: Elliott, Dr Mark Alan (2007) Stigmergic Collaboration: A Theoretical Framework for Mass Collaboration.
PhD thesis, Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Status: examination complete, final bound version submitted, graduated! Supervisors: Elizabeth Presa, Sean Cubitt, Warren Burt Examiners: Howard Rheingold, Francis Heylighen - read examination reportsWord count (approximate): 52,000Download: PDF version (30MB) Read Online (chapters will appear below as they are available): 0.
Creative Projects: The below links point to the online projects undertaken as part of this PhD. MetaCollab.netAustralian Bill of Rights Initiative This thesis presents an application-oriented theoretical framework for generalised and specific collaborative contexts with a special focus on Internet-based mass collaboration. 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.
Stigmergy and the World-Wide Web. Or how we all became ants building a nest we can't even see.
Weblogs, Neighborhoods, and Google Weblogs, Neighborhoods, and Google are all phenomena of the World-Wide Web. All of these are fairly new and they are all very powerful. Weblogs are successfully taking on large publishers on their fact checking. A minor shift in Googles ranking algorithms creates huge ripples. Weblogs I have a weblog. Now if you saw this happy little analogy playing out on the street you would do what any sane person would do; have everyone involved committed to a psychiatric ward.
What is stigmergy? 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. Although the term stigmergy is relatively new, the phenomenon itself is ancient. Stigmergy and "Self" Stigmergy is intimately related to the somewhat slippery notion of "self. " More on Evolution of Computing.