2004/04/30 by Carlos Gershenson, Francis Heylighen
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Database Systems and Queries #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence #Semantic Web and Ontologies #cs.AI #nlin.AO
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-17635-7_17
published as Minai, A., Braha, D., and Bar-Yam, Y., editors, Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, volume V, pages 136-143. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 · To be presented at 5th International Conference on Complex Systems
arxiv created 2004/04/30 · openalex publication_date 2011/01/01 · arxiv updated 2013/04/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
We discuss which properties common-use artifacts should have to collaborate without human intervention. We conceive how devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs, and home appliances, could be seamlessly integrated to provide an "ambient intelligence" that responds to the user's desires without requiring explicit programming or commands. While the hardware and software technology to build such systems already exists, as yet there is no standard protocol that can learn new meanings. We propose the first steps in the development of such a protocol, which would need to be adaptive, extensible, and open to the community, while promoting self-organization. We argue that devices, interacting through "game-like" moves, can learn to agree about how to communicate, with whom to cooperate, and how to delegate and coordinate specialized tasks. Thus, they may evolve a distributed cognition or collective intelligence capable of tackling complex tasks.