emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) (10/29/88)
(why is there no sci.chaos or sci.ecology ?) Has anyone else read this book? I'm looking for discussion of what might be labelled as 'computational ecology' or 'computational ecosystems'. Just looking at the relevant references in the two papers I have, the seminal works appear to be Davis and Smith (1983), 'Negotiation as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving' in 'Artificial Intelligence 20', and Kornfeld and Hewitt's "The Scientific Community Metaphor" in IEEE Trans Systems Man & Cybernetics 1981. Followups go wherever - I really don't know which if any of these newsgroups have any interest. My approach to this is based on a background in economics and in watching congestion appear in distributed electronic mail systems.