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Why Ant Foraging is like TCP
- xtacy 14y agoEarlier discussion on the same topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4433142 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4433142
- mkopinsky 14y agoOops. Be it known that I was not the one who added the ?v=1 to the end of the link to avoid the dupe detector. (I did, however, steal this link straight from /r/technology though.)
- heydenberk 14y agoFWIW, this is a much more accurate title.
- malkia 14y agoPrior-art :) - Just kiddin, as TCP is not patented as far as I know... but if it happened to be - would've that come as prior-art... coming from the ants? (But then one have to prove that ants did that from long time ago, and did not actually learned by reverse engineering our backbones).
- automagical 14y agosimilar work - AntNet - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume9/dicaro98a.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume9/dicaro...
- barbs 14y agoAlso similar, the protocol used in Jason Rohrer's MUTE peer-to-peer network: http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml
- Evbn 14y agoThis is not news. There were talks on swarm intelligence when I was in college over a decade ago, and it wasn't new then, either.
- mahmud 14y agoyep. Ant-protocols have been studied to death. Not sure what is new here.