Zootechnologies
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 col...
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Amsterdam University Press
2021
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-713732025-07-31T19:39:38Z Zootechnologies Vehlken, Sebastian Pakis, Valentine A. Social Science Media Studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies 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. 2021-07-16T02:04:37Z 2021-07-16T02:04:37Z 2021-07-15T03:30:36Z 2019 book OCN: 1130903694 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50070 9789048537426 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71373 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50070/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50070/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50070/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50070/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50070/1/external_content.pdf Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462986206 https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462986206 de2ecbe7-1037-4e96-8c3a-5a842d921e04 Knowledge Unlatched 9789048537426 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2020: HSS Backlist Books Amsterdam University Press open access |
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