I recently read the following post by Zyxo on Mixotricha blog about complexity which illustrates one fundamental flaw in many studies of swarm intelligence: the assumption that the subunits in a swarm-intelligent system are necessarily dumb.

Interesting post from Ryan Hollingsworth as guest blogger for LeRon Shults about swarm intelligence. At the end he poses the [...]

I recently read a paper by Fang Wu and Bernardo Huberman called “Novelty and collective attention“. This paper speak about how attention to novel items propagates and eventually fades among large populations. In particular, they analyzed the dynamics of collective attention among 1 million users of the interactive website digg.com. This website allows its users [...]

We as human beings are essentially visual animals. Representations are therefore of major importance for our understanding of the world around. This is especially true when we are dealing with complex systems where a large number of agents are continually interacting together. Visualization tools are required to help us give a sense to the apparent [...]