Boundary objects, trading zones, and stigmergy: the social and the cognitive in science.

The main proposal of this paper is that boundary objects and the trading zones in which they occur are the analogue of pheromone trails in the foraging of a termite colony. The colony can be construed as a stigmergic system where the traces of the actions of individual termites coordinate their furt...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 202; no. 4; pp. 1 - 26
Autor principal: Sims, Ric
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2023
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