Stigmergy

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Yesterday, while reading a paper describing the evolution of certain networks, I stumbled upon this strange word: "Stigmergy". What to do? After a few minutes of web-crawling I learned it was used by the French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to refer to certain aspects of termite behavior. It is now generally used to refer to a type of communication in which individuals (bacteria, ants, termites, people and other autonomous agents) communicate with one another by modifying their local environemnt.

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