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Embracing the Creativity of Stigmergy in Social Insects
Author(s) -
Theraulaz Guy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1808
Subject(s) - stigmergy , creativity , field (mathematics) , sociology , cognitive science , epistemology , artificial intelligence , computer science , philosophy , psychology , political science , law , mathematics , pure mathematics
In 1959, French biologist Pierre‐Paul Grassé coined the term ‘stigmergy’ to explain the mechanism of spontaneous coordination between agents or actions that leave traces on the environment. Here, Guy Theraulaz , a leading researcher in the field of swarm intelligence and a senior fellow at the of the Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, part of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, explains how architects can learn from this type of social interaction among insects.