Self-Assembling Networks

prostoalex writes "Researchers from Humboldt University found a way to build self-assembling networks. By emulating the behavior of ants and insects the team, which is led by Frank Schweitzer, demonstrated a simulation where agent-based architecture was able to quickly assemble itself into a network and quickly react to a broken link or damages. Schweitzer's research papers are available off his personal Web site. The scientific paper referred in the original article, Self-Assembling of Networks in an Agent-Based Model is available off Cornell server."

Comments

We already have one of those.

[Maradine]

My network team looks *just* like a swarm of ants when the network goes down.

Suddenly the expression...

[routerwhore]

"this network looks like a bunch of spiders having an orgy" has new meaning...

I can see it now!

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

HUB, "MALFORMED PACKET!!!! AHHH!!!! - HELP HELP HELP! I am lost!"

Router "Calm down, this is nothing compared to the broadcast storm of 93. Everything will be alright."

HUB, "Thank you,"

Router "These simpletons, when will they ever learn just to ignore that packet."

ala - bugs life.

Re:Self-assembling intelligence next?

[Neuronerd]

It turns out that already today all successful applications of socalled "artificial intelligence" are self assembling.

In the first approaches to artificial intelligence people used programming languages to obtain systems that generate intelligent or at least apparently intelligent behavior.

All newer approaches to artificial intelligence start with a large number of very simple units that, learning from data from the real world, develop specific patterns of connections. Many models even develop their own structure in such a way.

From my perspective is intelligence as well as artificial intelligence only possible in a system that can self-structure.