2021-7 Vincent: Swarm

SWARM DECISION MAKING

Gary Vincent

Special Presentation to INCOSE LA Chapter

SPEAKER: Gary Vincent, Certified Systems Engineering Professional

Abstract: In recent years, scientists and engineers have turned to the natural world when addressing design challenges in areas such as mechanical structures and fluid dynamics. These evolutionary systems often balance competing design requirements to arrive at optimal solutions.

However, nature can provide enlightening examples in other domains, to include information processing and decision making by distributed/decentralized systems (aka, swarms).

SWARM DECISION MAKING will examine how swarm systems identify, evaluate, and select among alternative solutions to a problem in the absence of centralized control. Topics will include:

• Characterizing swarm behavior

• An example: How honeybees select a new nest site

• Application of these techniques to human-designed systems

• Implications for human systems

Join us for a look at how distributed intelligence works, and what insights it can offer us in an increasingly interconnected world.

The recording is available in our dropbox. Send a note to nswg-info@incose.org to get the link