Summary of "The Past, Present and Future of Cybernetics and Systems Research" Symposium M at European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR), Vienna, Austria, April 12, 2012. Organizer: Carlos Gershenson This guided reflection on the challenges and opportunities of cybernetics and systems research (CSR) included initial interventions by panelists Peter Erdi, Helena Knyazeva, Stefan Thurner, Peter Csermely, and Alexander Lazlo. Afterwards, the floor was opened to interventions from the general public and further interventions by panelists. Commentaries were made from a broad variety of perspectives, but several general ideas can be distilled from the discussion. CSR have strongly influenced all scientific disciplines. As an example, the term "system" is used commonly in daily language. One of the breakthroughs of CSR lies in the search of commonalities across disciplines. Even when this was achieved to a certain degree, there is still a lack of
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BTW, I also study the traffic jam.
:)
Very nice video which explains clearly how we can learn from ants how to solve congestion problems.
We are currently developing a traffic information system based on a similar concept in Jakarta, Indonesia, where each car tells other cars on the roads the condition on the road it's on, effectively signaling other cars to avoid jams or to choose routes that are free.
Our project was inspired by the "group intelligent" concept from the book "Prey" by Michael Crichton.
Thank you very much for the video.
I hope we can get a chance to talk to you one of these days...
Regards,
Dien.
www.biolocate.com
I checked Fire Ants and it looks very interesting. Please keep me updated with it.
I used a similar idea to regulate traffic lights, see Chapter 5 of:
http://complexes.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-ebook-design-and-control-of-self.html
Cheers,
Carlos