Stigmergy
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Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an individual action stimulates the pe
Ant paths built from pheromone traces
Auklet flock Shumagins 1986
In computer science and operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems that can be reduced to finding good paths through gra
Stigmergy
…functions as a shared external memory for the ant colony. In computer science, this general method has been applied in a variety of techniques called ant colony optimization, which search for solutions to complex problems by depositing "virtual pheromones" along paths that appear promising. In the field of artificial neural…
When a colony of ants is confronted with the choice of reaching their food via two different routes of which one is much shorter than the other, their choice is entirely random. However, those who use the shorter route reach the food faster and therefore go back and forth more often between the anthill and the food.
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