03516nam 22005892 450 991049184880332120201214145903.090-485-3742-810.1515/9789048537426(CKB)4100000010012863(MiAaPQ)EBC5992908(DE-B1597)542039(DE-B1597)9789048537426(UkCbUP)CR9789048537426(OCoLC)1130903694(ScCtBLL)c08b3e4a-c7c0-41f5-ad4c-d9ba84923805(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71262(EXLCZ)99410000001001286320201022d2019|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierZootechnologies a media history of swarm research /Sebastian Vehlken ; translated by Valentine A. Pakis[electronic resource]Amsterdam University Press2019Amsterdam :Amsterdam University Press,2019.1 online resource (400 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniquesTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).Already published as: Zootechnologien. Eine Mediengeschichte der Schwarmforschung, Sebastian Vehlken. Copyright 2012, Diaphanes, Zürich-Berlin.94-6298-620-7 Includes bibliographical references.Front matter --Table of Contents --Acknowledgements --Introduction --I. Deformations: A Media Theory of Swarming --II. Formations --III. Formats --IV. Formulas --V. Transformations --VI. Zootechnologies --Conclusion --Works CitedSwarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes. It shows that the hype about collective intelligence is based on a reciprocal computerization of biology and biologization of computer science: After decades of painstaking biological observations in the ocean, experiments in aquariums, and mathematical model-making, it was swarms-inspired computer simulation which provided biological researchers with enduring knowledge about animal collectives. At the same time, a turn to biological principles of self-organization made it possible to adapt to unclearly delineated sets of problems and clarify the operation of opaque systems - from logistics to architecture, or from crowd control to robot collectives. As zootechnologies, swarms offer performative, synthetic, and approximate solutions in cases where analytical approaches are doomed to fail.Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.Swarm intelligenceComputer simulationSwarming (Zoology)Media History, Media Theory Swarm Intelligence, Computer Simulation, Animal Collectives.Swarm intelligence.Computer simulation.Swarming (Zoology)006.3824Vehlken Sebastian788383Pakis Valentine A.UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910491848803321Zootechnologies1991590UNINA