Hi all,
Hopefully I pickecd the right list - I'm research engineer who's
background is in theorectical biology and bioinformatics. I'm very
interested in what's sometimes called "biological inspired technologies"
and I'm trying to use biological principles as main inspiration while
tackling technological challenges (related to areas like crisis
management, traffic management, decision support,"intelligent" systems,
etc). Currently we are working on the application of self-organisation
concepts in (at least) the context of traffic management. One aspect
we've looked at is swarm-intelligence and we are excited about possible
applications. Besides that I'm looking for good references about colony
behavior of social insects escpecially related to in-hive behavior (I'm
hoping to find possible clues here about natural "traffic-jams"). Any
help or hints are greatly appreciated!!
regards,
Thonie van Lieburg, M.Sc.
TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
group Command&Control
Netherlands
www.tno.nl,[log in to unmask]
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