Swarm – Rock Stack

Riot Heatmap

I’d like to make a world heat map of the riots going on. Doing a quick google search didn’t get me any results of such an app. I was thinking about riots because of somewhat of a long story. There is a podcast that I listen to called The White Vault, that has a voice… Continue reading Riot Heatmap

Large MAS app. Parking lots

So the idea is that parking lots and local walmarts are not going to be able to afford remaking their parking lots so that when we have autonomous cars we can get dropped off at the door and the robot park somewhere and then pick us up at the entrance. This is because structurally there… Continue reading Large MAS app. Parking lots

Swarm of text

Can we use the Shapley idea to determine if there is a swarm on twitter based on tweets? A swarm could be thought as a lot of retweets or a tweet with similar words. We could find old tweet swarms characterize them and use them to predict whether certain tweets will become swarms. I think… Continue reading Swarm of text

Swarms within the internet

I was wondering if I had access to the data that AddThis collects if I could identify swarming within the data using the Shapley value idea? Might be interesting.

Java 3D and Mason

Well I got MASON installed and working. The 3D simulations are pretty neat. But you need to get Java 3D and install it. Some things to remember to speed the process of setting up netbeans for MASON would be that in order to add dll files you need to add something like: -Djava.library.path=”C:Program FilesJavaJava3D1.5.1bin” to the… Continue reading Java 3D and Mason

Swarm Calculus!!!!!!

I found people who are actually trying to model general swarms mathematically rather than specific swarms. This is awesome! They are calling it swarm calculus. I think that what we are doing would contribute to the swarm calculus. It seems like everyone always assumes we know that what we are looking at is a swarm and that we can… Continue reading Swarm Calculus!!!!!!

Gaussian Surface to calculate the flux of swarms

If we have a physical swarm (not the general swarm). We could use a Gaussian surface to calculate the flux of the individuals. Could this be part of the general swarm calculus. If we defined the domain using features other than distance? A more general type of Gaussian surface? Could this be applied to any… Continue reading Gaussian Surface to calculate the flux of swarms

Future: year 2213

Combine augmented reality, nano robot swarms and mind-device communication. So the idea is you first imagine a structure. This imagined structure is displayed (could be on glasses contact lens etc), augmenting reality. Using the image you can then improve and change the design. Could use your hands to manipulate it or just use your thoughts… Continue reading Future: year 2213

Thoughts on old research question

Back in undergrad (July 2010!) my professor, Dr. Babcock, posed the following question in order to help expand my narrow focus: The really interesting question is how does making the individual rules more complex affect the aggregate behavior patterns (or does the society no longer have patterns). As I am studying MAL, swarms and emergence I am… Continue reading Thoughts on old research question

Some swarm thoughts

UPenn researchers have collected examples of swarms or group behaviors found in nature. More than half of the papers describing the collective behavior of swarms exhibited coordination. The cool thing was that they found that coordination behavior is present from killer whales to cancer cell populations! It definitely seems that the ideas of coordination and cooperation are… Continue reading Some swarm thoughts