Michael J. North and Charles M. Macal
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195172119
- eISBN:
- 9780199789894
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195172119.003.0010
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Strategy
This chapter discusses large-scale agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS). Useful features of toolkits are discussed and the Repast and Swarm toolkits are considered as examples. Important ...
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This chapter discusses large-scale agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS). Useful features of toolkits are discussed and the Repast and Swarm toolkits are considered as examples. Important features of large-scale development environments are also presented. The large-scale modeling lifecycle is discussed including tools such as design patterns, with the “agent-based model” and the “scheduler scramble” design patterns used as examples.Less
This chapter discusses large-scale agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS). Useful features of toolkits are discussed and the Repast and Swarm toolkits are considered as examples. Important features of large-scale development environments are also presented. The large-scale modeling lifecycle is discussed including tools such as design patterns, with the “agent-based model” and the “scheduler scramble” design patterns used as examples.
Thomas Gardner
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195174939
- eISBN:
- 9780199850945
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195174939.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter describes the influence of Emily Dickinson in Jorie Graham's work Swarm (2000). Graham notes that Dickinson's poem 640 is a core text for Swarm—“animating the book throughout.” ...
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This chapter describes the influence of Emily Dickinson in Jorie Graham's work Swarm (2000). Graham notes that Dickinson's poem 640 is a core text for Swarm—“animating the book throughout.” Dickinson's work had been on Graham's mind throughout her career, providing one of the crucial voices—along with those of Bishop and Stevens—with which her work could be said to be in almost constant conversation. What is important about Swarm, the volume where Dickinson's work is most directly engaged, is that Graham's way of drawing the reader into those language-enriching, “vertigo-laden sensations” takes a significant turn there.Less
This chapter describes the influence of Emily Dickinson in Jorie Graham's work Swarm (2000). Graham notes that Dickinson's poem 640 is a core text for Swarm—“animating the book throughout.” Dickinson's work had been on Graham's mind throughout her career, providing one of the crucial voices—along with those of Bishop and Stevens—with which her work could be said to be in almost constant conversation. What is important about Swarm, the volume where Dickinson's work is most directly engaged, is that Graham's way of drawing the reader into those language-enriching, “vertigo-laden sensations” takes a significant turn there.
Thomas Gardner
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195174939
- eISBN:
- 9780199850945
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195174939.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This book investigates the poetic influence of Emily Dickinson to a significant number of contemporary writers, who in their own terms, are enacting Dickinson's poetics of “broken responsiveness.” It ...
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This book investigates the poetic influence of Emily Dickinson to a significant number of contemporary writers, who in their own terms, are enacting Dickinson's poetics of “broken responsiveness.” It focuses on four different works—Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, a novel; Charles Wright's Zone Journals, a sequence of journal-poems; poet Susan Howe's experimental prose works My Emily Dickinson and The Birth-mark; and Jorie Graham's book of poems Swarm. In the interviews that follow each chapter, each writer talks about Emily Dickinson and her influence on their writings.Less
This book investigates the poetic influence of Emily Dickinson to a significant number of contemporary writers, who in their own terms, are enacting Dickinson's poetics of “broken responsiveness.” It focuses on four different works—Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, a novel; Charles Wright's Zone Journals, a sequence of journal-poems; poet Susan Howe's experimental prose works My Emily Dickinson and The Birth-mark; and Jorie Graham's book of poems Swarm. In the interviews that follow each chapter, each writer talks about Emily Dickinson and her influence on their writings.
Thomas Gardner
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195174939
- eISBN:
- 9780199850945
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195174939.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter presents an interview with Jorie Graham, in which she works away from, all but disavowing, her initial response to Emily Dickinson. The Dickinson she presents in her long opening reading ...
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This chapter presents an interview with Jorie Graham, in which she works away from, all but disavowing, her initial response to Emily Dickinson. The Dickinson she presents in her long opening reading of poem 812 is a significant modification of the poet Swarm that she imagines itself in conversation with. Graham remarks that a version of Dickinson prompted both approaches to the unknown. If Swarm enacted a Dickinson trying to move past the problem of incarnation, poem 812 showed the poet “that it was much more complex than that, and that when [we] with…our bodies not just resurrected but incarnated—an actual annunciation could take place.”Less
This chapter presents an interview with Jorie Graham, in which she works away from, all but disavowing, her initial response to Emily Dickinson. The Dickinson she presents in her long opening reading of poem 812 is a significant modification of the poet Swarm that she imagines itself in conversation with. Graham remarks that a version of Dickinson prompted both approaches to the unknown. If Swarm enacted a Dickinson trying to move past the problem of incarnation, poem 812 showed the poet “that it was much more complex than that, and that when [we] with…our bodies not just resurrected but incarnated—an actual annunciation could take place.”
Helmut Satz
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- March 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198853398
- eISBN:
- 9780191888052
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198853398.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, Soft Matter / Biological Physics, Particle Physics / Astrophysics / Cosmology
Flocks of birds, schools of fish and swarms of locusts display amazing forms of collective motion, while huge numbers of glow worms can emit light signals with almost unbelievable synchronization. ...
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Flocks of birds, schools of fish and swarms of locusts display amazing forms of collective motion, while huge numbers of glow worms can emit light signals with almost unbelievable synchronization. These and many other collective phenomena in animal societies take place according to laws very similar to those governing the collective behavior in inanimate nature, such as the magnetization of iron and light radiation of lasers. During recent years, this has led to the study of swarm behavior as a challenging new field of science, in which ideas from the physical world are applied in order to understand the formation and structure of animal swarms. It has thus become clear that the collective behavior of animal swarms emerges in a self-organized way, without the need of any overall director. In this book, different swarm phenomena of the animal world are presented and compared with their counterparts in physics, in a conceptual and non-technical way, addressed to a general readership.Less
Flocks of birds, schools of fish and swarms of locusts display amazing forms of collective motion, while huge numbers of glow worms can emit light signals with almost unbelievable synchronization. These and many other collective phenomena in animal societies take place according to laws very similar to those governing the collective behavior in inanimate nature, such as the magnetization of iron and light radiation of lasers. During recent years, this has led to the study of swarm behavior as a challenging new field of science, in which ideas from the physical world are applied in order to understand the formation and structure of animal swarms. It has thus become clear that the collective behavior of animal swarms emerges in a self-organized way, without the need of any overall director. In this book, different swarm phenomena of the animal world are presented and compared with their counterparts in physics, in a conceptual and non-technical way, addressed to a general readership.
Timothy A. Kohler
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520270145
- eISBN:
- 9780520951990
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520270145.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
The agent-based simulation used by the Village Ecodynamics Project is called "Village" and consists of about 17,000 lines of Objective-C code written for the Swarm simulation platform. This chapter ...
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The agent-based simulation used by the Village Ecodynamics Project is called "Village" and consists of about 17,000 lines of Objective-C code written for the Swarm simulation platform. This chapter provides an overview of the structure, schedule, main agent actions (methods), and key parameters in the simulation. We show that growth rates exhibited by the agents in the simulation are realistic for Neolithic populations, and that variability in numbers of agents through time introduced by using different random number seeds is relatively small.Less
The agent-based simulation used by the Village Ecodynamics Project is called "Village" and consists of about 17,000 lines of Objective-C code written for the Swarm simulation platform. This chapter provides an overview of the structure, schedule, main agent actions (methods), and key parameters in the simulation. We show that growth rates exhibited by the agents in the simulation are realistic for Neolithic populations, and that variability in numbers of agents through time introduced by using different random number seeds is relatively small.
Zach Horton
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474422734
- eISBN:
- 9781474434959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422734.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter considers the ant as a limit case of becoming-animal in order to problematize a troubling reciprocity of becoming. For the ant, already multiple, already molecularized, adapts to every ...
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This chapter considers the ant as a limit case of becoming-animal in order to problematize a troubling reciprocity of becoming. For the ant, already multiple, already molecularized, adapts to every niche on earth, constitutes its territory through a limitless processural colonization of the other that involves endless becomings, endless deterritorializations and reconstitutions as a species body at multiple scales. In short, the ant is the perfect Deleuzean animal, and yet as H. G. Wells captures so astutely in his story, “The Empire of the Ants,” it is also the most imperial and hierarchized. If the human becomes animal so that the animal can become something else, becoming-ant affords the potential for the ant to, alarmingly, become human. In addition to discussing Wells’ story, the chapter explores Bernard Werber’s 1991 novel Les Fourmis as well as Google’s game interface, Swarm!, which allows for a more robust engagement with the dynamics of scale for Deleuzean philosophy, which often (though not always) engages scale as a continuum when in fact all becomings make use of scalar quanta. By jumping scales rather than “scaling,” a molecularization is able to generate new degrees of freedom which would engage the alterior dynamics of other scales.Less
This chapter considers the ant as a limit case of becoming-animal in order to problematize a troubling reciprocity of becoming. For the ant, already multiple, already molecularized, adapts to every niche on earth, constitutes its territory through a limitless processural colonization of the other that involves endless becomings, endless deterritorializations and reconstitutions as a species body at multiple scales. In short, the ant is the perfect Deleuzean animal, and yet as H. G. Wells captures so astutely in his story, “The Empire of the Ants,” it is also the most imperial and hierarchized. If the human becomes animal so that the animal can become something else, becoming-ant affords the potential for the ant to, alarmingly, become human. In addition to discussing Wells’ story, the chapter explores Bernard Werber’s 1991 novel Les Fourmis as well as Google’s game interface, Swarm!, which allows for a more robust engagement with the dynamics of scale for Deleuzean philosophy, which often (though not always) engages scale as a continuum when in fact all becomings make use of scalar quanta. By jumping scales rather than “scaling,” a molecularization is able to generate new degrees of freedom which would engage the alterior dynamics of other scales.
Anthony Trewavas
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199539543
- eISBN:
- 9780191788291
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199539543.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Plant Sciences and Forestry
This book takes as its theme the statement by the Nobel prize winning plant biologist, Barbara McClintock in 1984; “A goal for the future would be to determine the extent of knowledge the cell has of ...
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This book takes as its theme the statement by the Nobel prize winning plant biologist, Barbara McClintock in 1984; “A goal for the future would be to determine the extent of knowledge the cell has of itself and how it uses that knowledge in a thoughtful manner when challenged”. The response to ‘challenge’ is behaviour and ‘thoughtful’ responses are intelligent and inextricably linked to fitness. Cellular knowledge derives from the complex self-organising system that constructs the cell from its constituent molecules. This book fleshes out McClintock’s superb insight into plant cells and organisms. Early chapters describe the nature of life, its origins, how and why plants became multicellular and evolutionary convergence. A series of chapters on intelligent self-organising behaviour highlight the parallels with swarm intelligence, the integrating aspects of the cambium on branch initiation and growth, unusual behaviour of leaves, how roots reconstruct their sensing systems and are capable of self-recognition, and games plants play. The nature of intelligence forms nearly one whole chapter with the possibility that species are intelligent. Substantive evidence that brains are not needed for intelligent behaviour is posed leading to intelligent genomes and foraging. Finally in the context of McClintock’s ‘thoughtful’, the vexed question of consciousness is discussed and in that context J. C. Bose’s “plant nervous system” receives its rightful recognition.Less
This book takes as its theme the statement by the Nobel prize winning plant biologist, Barbara McClintock in 1984; “A goal for the future would be to determine the extent of knowledge the cell has of itself and how it uses that knowledge in a thoughtful manner when challenged”. The response to ‘challenge’ is behaviour and ‘thoughtful’ responses are intelligent and inextricably linked to fitness. Cellular knowledge derives from the complex self-organising system that constructs the cell from its constituent molecules. This book fleshes out McClintock’s superb insight into plant cells and organisms. Early chapters describe the nature of life, its origins, how and why plants became multicellular and evolutionary convergence. A series of chapters on intelligent self-organising behaviour highlight the parallels with swarm intelligence, the integrating aspects of the cambium on branch initiation and growth, unusual behaviour of leaves, how roots reconstruct their sensing systems and are capable of self-recognition, and games plants play. The nature of intelligence forms nearly one whole chapter with the possibility that species are intelligent. Substantive evidence that brains are not needed for intelligent behaviour is posed leading to intelligent genomes and foraging. Finally in the context of McClintock’s ‘thoughtful’, the vexed question of consciousness is discussed and in that context J. C. Bose’s “plant nervous system” receives its rightful recognition.
Rowan Wilken
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- April 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190234911
- eISBN:
- 9780190234942
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190234911.003.0004
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
This chapter explores the still-evolving business and revenue models and geolocation data capture efforts of two commercial businesses now central to the contemporary settlement of locative media: ...
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This chapter explores the still-evolving business and revenue models and geolocation data capture efforts of two commercial businesses now central to the contemporary settlement of locative media: Foursquare and Facebook. In Foursquare’s case, it underwent a quite dramatic series of transformations, evolving from a check-in based mobile social networking service, to a search and recommendation service, and now also serving as a firm offering location intelligence related enterprise services. In Facebook’s case, it set about further strengthening its grip on social media data markets by adding geolocation functionalities and geodata capture capabilities to its social networking operations. These two case studies provide a rich composite picture of the business ecologies of locational information. The aim in selecting these cases is to develop a clearer understanding of how both firms accrue location data and how they extract location value—that is, how this information is shared, harvested, valued, reused, and commodified.Less
This chapter explores the still-evolving business and revenue models and geolocation data capture efforts of two commercial businesses now central to the contemporary settlement of locative media: Foursquare and Facebook. In Foursquare’s case, it underwent a quite dramatic series of transformations, evolving from a check-in based mobile social networking service, to a search and recommendation service, and now also serving as a firm offering location intelligence related enterprise services. In Facebook’s case, it set about further strengthening its grip on social media data markets by adding geolocation functionalities and geodata capture capabilities to its social networking operations. These two case studies provide a rich composite picture of the business ecologies of locational information. The aim in selecting these cases is to develop a clearer understanding of how both firms accrue location data and how they extract location value—that is, how this information is shared, harvested, valued, reused, and commodified.
