Monday, June 13, 2005
Emergent Collective Intelligence
Emergent Collective Intelligence: "Collective intelligence is concerned with the design and analysis of systems that bring forth intelligence at the level of the collective additionally to the level of individuals. To perform a demanding task the agents and/or their interactions have to be complex. The relevance of a bottom-up approach -where features emerge- lies in the limitations of the top-down approach - where features are user designed and engineered. The total system complexity caused by highly non-linear interactions among system components, the agents themselves and between the agents and the (dynamically changing) environment, grows extremely fast with the complexity and number of the components themselves."