Enabling Self-Organization of the Educational Content in Ad Hoc Learning Networks

Șușnea, Ioan; Vasiliu, Grigore; Mitu, Daniela Elena

doi:10.24846/v22i2y201304

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“…This means that the proposed model can be used -in principle -in any metric space, whenever we can define a distance function. This leaves room for some interesting applications, where the intelligent agents operate in more abstract spaces, like databases, or social networks (see also [23]). …”

Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engineering Human Stigmergy

Șușnea

2015

INT J COMPUT COMMUN

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Abstract:Discovered in the context of a research about insects, stigmergy -the indirect coordination mechanism that allows ant colonies to achieve intelligent behavior -has been extensively studied with the aim to create artificial, ant-like agents. Although stigmergic behavior has been also identified in human collectivities, there are relatively few reports about technological solutions that facilitate the emergence of such interactions between people. This paper proposes the concept of virtual pheromones, defined as engrams created by the agents not in the environment, but in a representation thereof -a map, and outlines several use cases, wherein pheromones embedded in maps are the key element for inducing stigmergic behavior in human multi-agent systems. Without proposing a theoretic generalization, this paper aims to emphasize the broad range of possible technological applications of human stigmergy, and, maybe, to mark a new starting point for a more in-depth study of this topic.

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Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

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“…Consider, for example, a database of "educational objects" [23] used by a (large) community of students, or researchers. Each object is described by a set of metadata, including:…”

Section: Use Case 3: Self-organization Of the Educational Objectsmentioning

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Engineering Human Stigmergy

Șușnea

2015

INT J COMPUT COMMUN

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“…for group decision support systems ( [18]), stigmergic learning ( [19]), and many others (see [20]). …”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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The Inn at the Crossroads – A Model of Distributed Spatial Knowledge

Șușnea¹

2016

SIC

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Abstract:The paper describes a simple experiment aimed to demonstrate the possibility to create distributed cognitive maps of certain environments by means of recording basic information about the purposeful motion of a population of mobile agents. The environment is assumed to consist in a set of behaviorally significant places interconnected by predefined paths, just like the inns at the crossroads used to be deployed along and across populated areas centuries ago. These active places interact with the mobile agents and create local patches of relevant navigation information, which is shared with other agents that reach the respective place. As a result, the system exhibits a globally consistent spatial behavior, using only locally available, incomplete spatial knowledge. A NetLogo simulation allowed us to compare the average distance traveled by the agents, and the average travel time before reaching their goals, with a similar system wherein the agents walk randomly. As expected, the agents using the distributed spatial knowledge reached their goals much faster than those walking randomly in the same environment. We also explore the possible applications of systems built according to the principles described here.

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“…We have described in [23] a MAS experiment wherein the environment is a large set of learning objects Λ, organized as a database that can be independently accessed by a number of users (the agents), who can search and retrieve learning objects .…”

Section: Virtual Pheromones As the Internal "Scent" Of Cognitive Mapsmentioning

confidence: 99%