Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism I: Definition and components

Stigmergy as a generic mechanism for coordination: definition, varieties and aspects

Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism II: Varieties and evolution

The concept of stigmergy, a mechanism for the coordination of actions via the trace they leave in a medium, can explain self-organizing activities in a broad range of domains, including social insects, collaborative websites, and human institutions. The present paper attempts to bring some order to these diverse applications by classifying varieties of stigmergy according to general aspects: th...

Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism: components, varieties and applications

The concept of stigmergy has been used to analyze self-organizing activities in an ever-widening range of domains, including social insects, robotics, web communities, and human society. Yet, it is still poorly understood, and as such its full power remains underappreciated. The present paper clarifies the issue by defining stigmergy as a mechanism of indirect coordination in which the trace le...

Social cognition, artefacts, and stigmergy revisited: Concepts of coordination

A number of different coordination concepts have been developed to explain how individual activities are coordinated on a social level, and the variety of concepts shows there is an interest in many domains to find such explanations. Stigmergy being one of them, has come to be increasingly applied on various kinds of human activities. In other domains we find other concepts for explaining how e...

Universal Triple I Method for Fuzzy Reasoning and Fuzzy Controller

As a generalization of the triple I method, the universal triple Imethod is investigated from the viewpoints of both fuzzy reasoningand fuzzy controller. The universal triple I principle is putforward, which improves the previous triple I principle. Then,unified form of universal triple I method is established based onthe (0,1)-implication or R-implication. Moreover, the reversibilityproperty o...