The Value of Smart Swarms

New book in the pile and now being read: The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done.  by Peter Miller.   We examined swarm technologies in the enterprise as models for complex systems.

 Even if you don't actually use this kind of model to solve a problem, it is useful to use as a way to understand shoppers, consumers, elements of a supply chain, friends and anything that consists of many simple components that communicate in simple ways.

  So it can be applied as a way to simulate and improve many kinds of systems. This book is a very non-technical overview.  For a more technical view, see the Swarm Development Group wiki.  I will provide a more detailed review later.