| Publication type: | Conference paper |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Towards a common understanding of the digital pheromone |
| Authors: | Doran, Hans Dermot |
| DOI: | 10.5220/0003572901760181 |
| Proceedings: | Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO |
| Page(s): | 176 |
| Pages to: | 181 |
| Conference details: | 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2011), Noordwijkerhout, Niederlande, 28-31 July 2011 |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| ISBN: | 978-989-8425-74-4 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Robotics; Pheromones; Communication; Bio-inspired |
| Subject (DDC): | 620: Engineering |
| Abstract: | In this paper we critically evaluate the research on digital pheromones to date and conclude that the wide variance in the understanding of what a digitised pheromone is serves to defocus research. We examine the classical pheromone-use algorithm, the ant algorithm and conclude that as such it has not been proven feasible for practical use. By examining the failure of proposed applications we derive an application where pheromones appear to offer added value. On critically evaluating an initial implementation we note its success but point out that lacking the understanding of biological pheromones serves to hinder research in digital pheromones in general and bio-inspired robotics in particular. We propose a set of rules and urge researchers to critically evaluate them. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/8873 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Engineering |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Embedded Systems (InES) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Engineering |
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Doran, H. D. (2011). Towards a common understanding of the digital pheromone [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, 176–181. https://doi.org/10.5220/0003572901760181
Doran, H.D. (2011) ‘Towards a common understanding of the digital pheromone’, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, pp. 176–181. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5220/0003572901760181.
H. D. Doran, “Towards a common understanding of the digital pheromone,” in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, 2011, pp. 176–181. doi: 10.5220/0003572901760181.
DORAN, Hans Dermot, 2011. Towards a common understanding of the digital pheromone. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO. Conference paper. 2011. S. 176–181. ISBN 978-989-8425-74-4
Doran, Hans Dermot. 2011. “Towards a Common Understanding of the Digital Pheromone.” Conference paper. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, 176–81. https://doi.org/10.5220/0003572901760181.
Doran, Hans Dermot. “Towards a Common Understanding of the Digital Pheromone.” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, 2011, pp. 176–81, https://doi.org/10.5220/0003572901760181.
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