7:00 – 5:00 ASRC

• Pick up printer paper!
• My intuition is that there is a form of information ‘flocking behavior’ with respect to information space. There wouldn’t be quite the same physics as birds or fish in motion, but there do seem to be rules.
  Surprisingly, when I started to look at the literature, many of my hits came back from swarm robotics, for example Stable social foraging swarms in a noisy Environment. This is particularly interesting since information search behavior has long been equated with foraging behavior.
• The Max Planck Department of Collective Behaviour: “If it’s collective, and a great system for asking questions, then it is of interest to us.”
• So, Reading up on flocking.
  • Found Stable social foraging swarms in a noisy Environment
  • On Krause’s multi-agent consensus model with state-dependent connectivity
  • Opinion dynamics with decaying confidence: Application to community detection in graphs <- going to start with this one.
• Add wayne to my resume
• Quick meetings with Shimei and Aaron