I'd check in with the folks of the research arm of British Telecom- they've
been asking similar questions with regards to networks and have done some
interesting things modeling schooling fish and stromatolites reacting to
constant feedback signals.
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On 2/6/03 2:46 AM, "A van Lieburg" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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