Scientific Commons | A Community for Scientific Information Solving the division of labour problem using and evolved heterogeneity (abstract) (2008) James, E. Noble, J. Watson, R. efficiently. Information and material flows in complex networks (2006) Helbing, Dirk Armbruster, Dieter Mikhailov, Alexander S. In this special issue, an overview of the Thematic Institute (TI) on Information and Material Flows in Complex Systems is given. Evolving a Stigmergic Self-Organized Data-Mining (2004) Ramos, Vitorino Abraham, Ajith not easily accessible or possible to be found. , a kind of indirect communication and learning by the environment found in social insects... Swarms on Continuous Data (2004) KEYWORDS: Swarm Intelligence, Ant Systems, , Data-Mining, Exploratory Data Analysis, Image Retrieval, Continuous Classification.... Web Usage Mining Using Artificial Ant Colony Clustering and Genetic Programming (2004) Abraham, Ajith Ramos, Vitorino Usage Mining, Swarm Intelligence, Ant Systems, , Data-Mining, Linear Genetic Programming. Roth, Martin Eric Bonabeau
Main Page 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. 2. 3. 4. Non-Textual Mass Collaboration Conclusion
Wiki Type of website that visitors can edit A wiki ( WI-kee) is a form of online hypertext publication that is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge base. Wikis are enabled by wiki software, otherwise known as wiki engines. There are hundreds of thousands of wikis in use, both public and private, including wikis functioning as knowledge management resources, note-taking tools, community websites, and intranets. The online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is the most popular wiki-based website, as well being one of the most popular websites on the entire internet, having been ranked consistently as such since at least 2007.[7] Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, with each one pertaining to a specific language. Characteristics Editing Source editing Searching
The home of stigmergic systems This site was set up in 2001 to provide a record of the thinking behind the development of stigmergic systems. In 2004, work on new projects was halted in order to re-assess the theory in light of the new thinking coming out of neurological research. Brain imaging techniques were revealing that the functioning of the human brain is totally different from the way it had been envisaged in the twentieth century. The implications for information technology are far reaching and it was decided that the next step forward should be to encompass all further work within these new theoretical frameworks. To this end, work has now started on practical examples to be developed in the stigmergic environment known as Second Life. The site is temporarily divided up into several different divisions that are linked together only on this home page. The Second Life link is concerned with applications in the rapidly expanding field of artificial worlds.
Main Page - Wikimania Novel stigmergy structures in the Internet The vast messaging structure called the Internet harbors many self-organizing multicellular digital structures. More evolve every year. And multitudes of "single cell" devices, PCs, laptops, iPod/Pad/Phones, Android smart phones, and various sensor and effector devices communicate with the many digital stigmergy structures discussed below. Linux source code, for example, can be thought of as a software termite mound, that is, a new kind of digital stigmergy structure. The Internet supports many other public stigmergy structures that are collectively managed and used by humanity[1]. Examples of emergent digital stigmergy structures in the Internet include: Google and other search sites -- consisting of crawlers, databases and servers. Note that all of these novel communities are organized around new stigmergy structures, i.e., new digital selves, of a sort that didn’t exist previously. [1] “humanity” is an overstatement. Contact: sburbeck at mindspring.com Last revised 9/1/2013
Article about Negatives of Collective Intelligence (with rebutle On "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism" By Jaron Lanier Responses to Lanier's essay from Douglas Rushkoff, Quentin Hardy, Yochai Benkler, Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson, Larry Sanger, Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, Jimmy Wales, George Dyson, Dan Gillmor, Howard Rheingold Now, another big idea is taking hold, but this time it's more painful for some people to embrace, even to contemplate. It's nothing less than the migration from individual mind to collective intelligence. I call it "here comes everybody", and it represents, for good or for bad, a fundamental change in our notion of who we are. In other words, we are witnessing the emergence of a new kind of person. Lately, there's been a lot of news concerning the Wikipedia and other user-generated websites such as Myspace, Flickr, and others. "At first, it seemed like the sort of silly, self-serving thing that many companies are wont to say about their products. "The mass. — Clay Shirky
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
Wikipedia, the free encycloped Free multilingual online encyclopedia Wikipedia has received praise for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, culture, and reduced degree of commercial bias; but criticism for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and alleged ideological bias.[13][14] Its reliability was frequently criticized in the 2000s but has improved over time, as Wikipedia has been generally praised in the late 2010s and early 2020s.[3][13][15] The website's coverage of controversial topics such as American politics and major events like the COVID-19 pandemic has received substantial media attention. It has been censored by world governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. Nevertheless, Wikipedia has become an element of popular culture, with references in books, films, and academic studies. History Nupedia Wikipedia originally developed from another encyclopedia project called Nupedia. Launch and growth Milestones Openness
Stigmergic collaboration - Meta Collab Stigmergic collaboration is the process of collaboration that utilizes an intervening encodable media such as a canvas, a word processing document, email or a wiki. Many if not most collaborative processes can be considered stigmergic collaboration as the use of encodable media is generally the norm. The employment of such media typically extends a collaborative group's reach enabling more participants to work across greater spans of geography and time, as well as extending group's memory and capacity to engage greater levels of complexity. Several works on the subject are listed below. Stigmergic Collaboration: A Theoretical Framework for Mass Collaboration Edit Mark Elliott's PhD dissertation Abstract Edit This thesis presents an application-oriented theoretical framework for generalised and specific collaborative contexts with a special focus on Internet-based mass collaboration. Stigmergic Collaboration: the evolution of group work Introduction Stigmergic Collaboration 1. Edit 2. Edit 3. 4.
Results of Wikipedia Research These are some of the drafts that went into my dissertation on Wikipedia. Open Content Communities In this brief essay I sketch the characteristics of an open content community by considering a number of prominent examples, reviewing sociological literature, teasing apart the concepts of open and voluntary implicit in most usages of the term, and I offer a definition in which the much maligned possibility of "forking" is actually an integral aspect of openness. Four Short Stories about the Reference Work Many histories can be written of the reference work. There is the chronicle of technical and institutional forces intertwined in the production of the book: of conquest, co-option, trade wars, empire and religion. A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking This paper explores the character of "mutual aid" and interdependent decision making within the Wikipedia. Is the Wikipedia Neutral? Wikipedia's Heritage: Vision, Pragmatics, and Happenstance
Stigmergic Collaboration Jimmy Wales