If
you like
to explore further possibilities of using the swarm approach, have a
look
at the 'classical' paper of Hoffenmeyer: Swarm Semiotics on: http://www.molbio.ku.dk/MolBioPages/abk/PersonalPages/Jesper/Swarm.html
and the paper
of another well-known semiotician Umiker-Sebeok: The semiotic swarm of
cyberspace: Cybergluttony and Internet addiction in the global village:
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/umikerse/papers/cgsec1.html
Those who are
interested in modelling swarm behavior, please, have a look at: http://www.catachan.demon.co.uk/Alife/swarm.html
The parameters you can play with in the above model are: degree of
separation,
alignment, cohesion, and avoidance between the individuals.
Last year,
Santa-Fe institute issued an interesting book "Swarm Intelligence": http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195131592.html
Tutorial Introduction
to Swarm Dynamics (aspects of social modelling), you can find at: http://www.swarm.org/csss-tutorial/titlefoil.html
Another interesting
site is http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~good/webnotes.html
