Re: Biological Analogies in Manufacturing

[Mark P. Line]

David --

I just saw this on the swarm-modelling list. Could I have your
permission to repost it to a couple of my other mailing lists?

Thanks in advance.

-- Mark

(Mark P. Line  --  Bellevue, Washington  --  <address@hidden>)



David Sumpter wrote:
> 
> Dear Frank,
> 
> I work in self-organisation in social insects and can't say I have done any 
> work
> in biological manufacturing systems. But am interested in what humans might
> learn from the organisation of bees and ants.
> 
> I'm not sure if you know about the  2nd International Symposium on Intelligent
> Manufacturing systems this summer but if not then have a look at,
> 
> http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~rocha/ECMS98.html
> 
> Social insect people are trying to promote self-organisation as being useable 
> in
> the design of multi-agent engineering systems. As to if the process of
> manufacturing has direct analogies in the hive of a honey bee - I am quite
> sceptical. But evolution has designed amazingly efficent processes of
> co-operation without centralised control. Understanding these would benefit
> anyone wanting to understand what makes a good organisation.
> 
> Have a look at,
> 
> The Wisdom of the Hive by Tom Seeley.
> 
> The final chapters give an overview of self-organisation in an abstract way.
> Applicable to any area.
> 
> David Sumpter.
> 
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> David J.T. Sumpter
> Mathematics Department, UMIST, P.O. Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD
> 
> http://www.ma.umist.ac.uk/dsumpter/beesim/index.html
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