Written by Simon Garnier on May 19, 2011 – 9:09 am
Yesterday, PLoS ONE published my last article co-authored with my good friend Alexandre Campo, his students Olivier Dédriche and Mouhcine Zekkri, and Marco Dorigo (do I need to introduce him?). In this paper, we present a self-organizing mechanism that allows a group of individuals (in this case robots) to select a resource that matches its [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on August 31, 2010 – 3:40 pm
Leslie Marsh, Assistant Director of the New England Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies, informed me of a coming special issue of Cognitive Systems Research dedicated to stigmergy. Along with Margery Doyle (Air Force Research Lab), he will be editor of this special issue and invite all researchers interested in stigmergic behaviors and communication [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on June 10, 2010 – 9:49 am
It's not necessary to introduce Mark Moffett, the "Dr. Bugs" as he called himself on his website. The Los Angeles Times recently published an interview of this talented researcher, writer, adventurer, photograph… You can read it at this address: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-sci-ants-20100529,0,7987527,full.story.
Written by Simon Garnier on April 8, 2010 – 10:25 am
Yesterday (April 7th 2010), Science Now (the news section of Science Magazine) published an article by Dave Mosher on our work on pedestrian crowds. The article summarizes the paper we published the same day in PLoS ONE. Hereafter are an excerpt of the Science Article and the abstract of our PLoS ONE paper:
Secret of Annoying [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on March 9, 2010 – 2:29 pm
Originally scheduled for March 15th (see my previous post on the subject), the submission deadline for the special issue on Swarm Cognition (Swarm Intelligence Journal) has been extended until April 15th.
Written by Simon Garnier on March 3, 2010 – 7:34 pm
On March 1, 2010, the New York Times has published an interesting article about the role of culture as a force at play in natural selection. The author, Nicholas Wade, reviews and summarizes thoughts and ideas that have emerged recently (but were floating around since several years) about the strong link that may exist between [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on February 20, 2010 – 5:06 pm
To be published in New Scientist on February 22, this article by Philip Ball (well known for his books about science and culture) speaks about the principles underlying nest construction in insects and how they can be a source of inspiration in modern architecture. This article follows a recent workshop on this subject ("From Insect [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on January 29, 2010 – 3:49 pm
Dr. Andrea Perna (Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes), Prof. David Sumpter (Mathematics Department, Uppsala Universty) and Dr. Guy Theraulaz (CRCA, CNRS) will be the editors of a special issue on Collective Decision in Biological Swarms for the Swarm Intelligence Journal. This special issue calls for papers focusing on different aspects and issues of collective decision in [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on January 24, 2010 – 11:06 pm
Dr. Vito Trianni (LARAL-ISTC-CNR, Italy), Dr. Elio Tuci (LARAL-ISTC-CNR, Italy) and Prof. Kevin M. Passino (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, OH, USA) will be the editors of a special issue on Swarm Cognition for the Swarm Intelligence Journal. The call for papers can be found at the following address: http://laral.istc.cnr.it/swarm-cognition/Main_Page. Hereafter is the accompanying [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on August 8, 2009 – 9:00 am
The very recent journal Topics in Cognitive Science has released in its last issue (volume 1, number 3) and in the next one (volume 1, number 4, not online) a series of articles on collective behaviors. This special issue has been handled by the Associate Editors Robert Goldstone and Todd Gureckis and aimed at the coverage of [...]