Task 9 Flashcards
What is the definition of swarm Intelligence ?
- Any attempt to design algorithms or distributed problem solving devices inspired by the collective behavior of insect colonies and other animal societies
What is meant by swarm ?
- any loosely structured collection of interacting agents
What is one unique charactersitic of swarm Intellience ?
- Those are often self organized systems
What is meant by self organized systems ?
- coordination arises from different interactions among individual
- There is no central control
- Members just follow simple rules
- Bottom up process
How do swarm Intelligence species communicate ?
- Stigmergy
What is meant by stigmery and name both kinds:
- communication by altering the state of the environment in a way that will affect the behaviours of others
1. Cue-based
2. Sign based
What is meant by cue based stigmery ?
- change in the environment simply provides a cue for the behaviour of other actors
- Example: growing pillars
What is meant by Sign based stigmery ?
- environmental change actually sends a signal to the actor
- Active action (pheromones of the aents)
What is the problem with the swarm intelligence in ants ?
- ants are very bad at switching decissions once they have chosen their path
Why are ants so bad at changing plans ?
- insect can only detect its immediate environment + no global evaluation of the situation+ no optimization since no evaluation
What is meanty by the social impact theory ?
- Impact of group on individual is a function of strength (= persuasiveness), immediacy and number of other people influencing
Explain the function of the social impact theory ?
- Impact increases monotonically with the size of the group, but slows with group size
What is one characteristic of the huamn species ?
- They are herding creatures
What does herding creatures mean ?
- they become more similar when they interact, results in norms and cultures
- It is about thinking similarity not physical
- End result is the mind
Where do we find more social congregations/gathering ?
- You can find social gathering more often in prey then predators
What are type of organised behaviour do we see in the nature ?
- Selfish behaviour + Simple rules
Name an example of a selfish beahviour in the nature ?
- to move to centre of the group bc your chances for survival at the edge are shit
Name an example of simple rules:
- Try to get the same speed as ur neighboors
- pull away before they crash into one another (Collision)
What is the differnece between the simple rules regarding humans and animals ?
- Humans stric for Collision since they create norms and cultures via collision AND a mental life !!!
- Collision = agreement of human thoughts
What is meant by mutiagent system ?
- computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents
- agents interact with each other
Name an example of a mutilagent system ?
- Subsumption architecture
- Cellular robots (or is that a swarm??)
- opposition of traditional AI
What is meant by Subsumption architecture ?
- decomposing the complete behavior into sub-behaviors
- hierachy layers (the higher the layer the more complex the task)
- bottom up approach
- independent modules work together without to interfere
What is the differnce between multiagent systems and swarms systems ?
- Global behaviour of swarm is an effect of local interactions of members vs behaviour is more of a sum of the agent’s contributions
- Swarms are homogenous (everyone does the same) vs multiagnet systems which are heterogenous (are assigned to specific tasks )
What is meant by cellular robots ?
- a self-organizing robotic system composed of a large number of autonomous robotic units, named cells
- global intelligence emerges from the local interactions of individually unintelligent beings.
Who explained group behaviour ?
- Hodgins algorithm
Explain hodgins algorithm:
- based on perception model (predicts what group memeber percieve)
- based on placement algorithm (calculates how fast u have to move regarding ur neigbors)
- > both a simple rules
What are some unique characteritsics of social robots ?
- Agents of a robot have different functions (heterogenous)
- Agents can interact with each other
- Agenst Have histories: perceive and interpret the world in terms of their own experiences
- Individual agents contribute to dynamics of the whole society and society contributes to the individual
When does the intelligence of an ant swarm rises ?
- during phase transition