Measuring information dynamics in swarms

Jennifer M. Miller; X. Rosalind Wang; Joseph T. Lizier; Mikhail Prokopenko; Louis F. Rossi

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-53734-9_12

Measuring information dynamics in swarms

Jennifer M. Miller, X. Rosalind Wang, Joseph T. Lizier, Mikhail Prokopenko, Louis F. Rossi

Western Sydney University

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We propose a novel, information theoretic characterization of dynamics within swarms, through explicitly measuring the extent of collective communications and tracing collective memory. These elements of distributed computation provide complementary views into the capacity for swarm coherence and reorganization. The approach deals with both global and local information dynamics ultimately discovering diverse ways in which an individual’s location within the group is related to its information processing role.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Guided Self-Organization: Inception
Editors	Mikhail Prokopenko
Place of Publication	U.S.
Publisher	Springer
Pages	343-364
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9783642537349
ISBN (Print)	9783642537332
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53734-9_12
Publication status	Published - 2014

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dynamics

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