Stigmergy
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.
This blog is an example of stigmergy...
This blog is an example of stigmergy...
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