Congratulations, you just described the basic alghorithm of ant systems:)
There is also a negative feedback involved: the scent (pheromones) evaporate over time to avoid getting stuck in a local optimum too soon.
A lot of literature is available on ant colony optimization and ant systems. A starting point might be the homepage of Marco Dorigo.
Ant systems for dynamic problems
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Ants in your P2Pants
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Nice to see a more practical application of ant systems. The past year I have been working with ant systems in a more academic setting: optimizing dynamic problems (problems that change over time) using ant systems. Travelling salesman to be more precise, but my salesmen (sales-ants?) encountered traffic jams.
The research can be found here Next idea: ant based routing. Get rid off BGP, use ants:)
At the University of Twente there has been a robot called Marvin as long as I can remember. There seem to be a lot of resemblances between the two. "Our" Marvin just doesn't have a function whatsoever:) The other Marvin
At a conference a few weeks ago (Learning to Behave - TWLT17 in Twente), there was a speaker from University College Londen who talked about "Efficient Cloth Model for Dressing Animated Virtual People".
I couldn't find the whole article online, but a very rough overview is here.
Maybe a stupid idea, but why not have them make two backups, on different diskettes. It's certainly the cheapest solution, but not the solution you are looking for probably.
Remember this page? It has implementations for "99 bottles of beer" in over 200 languages, including some really obscure ones. (trumpet winsock, turing machine, pov-ray just to mention a few). Have a look and laugh.
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Ok, I can't resist posting a shameless plug here. :)
My thesis was about "Ants caught in a traffic jam"
http://joost.student.utwente.nl/thesis/
Congratulations, you just described the basic alghorithm of ant systems :)
There is also a negative feedback involved: the scent (pheromones) evaporate over time to avoid getting stuck in a local optimum too soon.
A lot of literature is available on ant colony optimization and ant systems. A starting point might be the homepage of Marco Dorigo.
Nice to see a more practical application of ant systems. The past year I have been working with ant systems in a more academic setting: optimizing dynamic problems (problems that change over time) using ant systems. Travelling salesman to be more precise, but my salesmen (sales-ants?) encountered traffic jams. :)
The research can be found here
Next idea: ant based routing. Get rid off BGP, use ants
At the University of Twente there has been a robot called Marvin as long as I can remember. There seem to be a lot of resemblances between the two. :)
"Our" Marvin just doesn't have a function whatsoever
The other Marvin
At a conference a few weeks ago (Learning to Behave - TWLT17 in Twente), there was a speaker from University College Londen who talked about "Efficient Cloth Model for Dressing Animated Virtual People".
I couldn't find the whole article online, but a very rough overview is here.
Maybe a stupid idea, but why not have them make two backups, on different diskettes. It's certainly the cheapest solution, but not the solution you are looking for probably.
Remember this page?
It has implementations for "99 bottles of beer" in over 200 languages, including some really obscure ones. (trumpet winsock, turing machine, pov-ray just to mention a few).
Have a look and laugh.
Dutch Teletext (for an example of teletext).
For another project that does something like this (I think) see:
http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/P rojects/olive.html