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oapen-20.500.12657-499892021-07-14T00:56:29Z Zootechnologies Vehlken, Sebastian Media History, Media Theory Swarm Intelligence, Computer Simulation, Animal Collectives bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes. It shows that the hype about collective intelligence is based on a reciprocal computerization of biology and biologization of computer science: After decades of painstaking biological observations in the ocean, experiments in aquariums, and mathematical model-making, it was swarms-inspired computer simulation which provided biological researchers with enduring knowledge about animal collectives. At the same time, a turn to biological principles of self-organization made it possible to adapt to unclearly delineated sets of problems and clarify the operation of opaque systems - from logistics to architecture, or from crowd control to robot collectives. As zootechnologies, swarms offer performative, synthetic, and approximate solutions in cases where analytical approaches are doomed to fail. 2021-07-13T09:33:40Z 2021-07-13T09:33:40Z 2019 book ONIX_20210713_9789048537426_12 9789048537426 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49989 eng Recursions application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048537426.pdf https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048537426 Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789048537426 Amsterdam University Press 401 open access
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Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes. It shows that the hype about collective intelligence is based on a reciprocal computerization of biology and biologization of computer science: After decades of painstaking biological observations in the ocean, experiments in aquariums, and mathematical model-making, it was swarms-inspired computer simulation which provided biological researchers with enduring knowledge about animal collectives. At the same time, a turn to biological principles of self-organization made it possible to adapt to unclearly delineated sets of problems and clarify the operation of opaque systems - from logistics to architecture, or from crowd control to robot collectives. As zootechnologies, swarms offer performative, synthetic, and approximate solutions in cases where analytical approaches are doomed to fail.
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