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Software development and Web site development techniques have evolved significantly over the past 20 years. The relatively young Web Application development area has borrowed heavily from traditional software development methodologies primarily due to the similarities in areas of data persistence and User Interface (UI) design. Recent developments...
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... [4] we have introduced a model of stigmergy including the concept of a stigmergy grand purpose and the core components of stigmergy: the agent, the environment, and the sign. The model is illustrated in Figure 1. The model as illustrated in Figure 1. ...
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... model is illustrated in Figure 1. The model as illustrated in Figure 1. ties together the core components of stigmergy, an inner band representing the attributes of the components, and an outer band representing the dynamics acting on those attributes. ...
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... incorporate stigmergy into WebML we need to understand the general ways the system would receive input, and how it should display output. If we consider our model of stigmergy (see Figure 1. ) we understand that this will correlate with the environment having the facility to record contributions, process them and represent them back to users. ...
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... There are multiple varieties of stigmergy and our research to date has modeled and documented this [2,3]. We have created generic design proto-patterns from observing stigmergy in numerous Web sites, however this paper will focus on those observed within Facebook. ...
... The pattern in the developed model has allowed the comparative case study to be performed against a selection of existing web sites with varying levels of model alignment. Analysis of the case studies identified common solution patterns as well as proto-patterns representing solutions which provide more sophisticated implementation of the stigmergy varieties [3]. Targeting multiple sites for case studies has provided a vital cross section of sites displaying aspects that impact the simplistic entomological examples of stigmergy when applied to complex and cognitive human systems. ...
... Our research has explored how the different varieties of stigmergy manifest as proto-patterns within the target case study sites [3]. The key concepts identify that there are consistencies between the input (actuators) and output (sensor) mechanisms for each variety of stigmergy. ...
Stigmergy is a biological term originally used when discussing insect or swarm behaviour, and describes a model supporting environment-based communication separating artefacts from agents. This phenomenon is demonstrated in the behavior of ants and their food foraging supported by pheromone trails, or similarly termites and their termite nest building process. What is interesting with this mechanism is that highly organized societies are formed without an apparent central management function. We see design features in Web sites that mimic stigmergic mechanisms as part of the User Interface and we have created generalizations of these patterns. Software development and Web site development techniques have evolved significantly over the past 20 years. Recent progress in this area proposes languages to model web applications to facilitate the nuances specific to these developments. These modeling languages provide a suitable framework for building reusable components encapsulating our design patterns of stigmergy. We hypothesize that incorporating stigmergy as a separate feature of a site's primary function will ultimately lead to enhanced user coordination.
