[computer-go] Decision-making methods in a distributed "swarm" of "light-weight" processors.

[Nic Schraudolph]

> This would be interesting, were it true.
> As one who has had actual experience keeping bees, however, I am  
> skeptical.
> Wherever the new queen lands (actually, sometimes it is the old  
> queen who is
> driven out of the existing hive by the usurper) is where the other  
> bees land.

Muddled as it was, the article clearly did not describe where a swarm  
clusters
after leaving its old hive (which as you say is straight "follow the  
queen"),
but the process by which a clustered swarm subsequently reaches a  
collective
decision where to hive. That can take several days.

Also, the old queen that leaves the hive is by no means driven out -  
she leaves
well before her daughters emerge. The article got it all pretty much  
right, it just
failed to mention that swarms cluster somewhere (typically on a tree  
branch)
before starting to seek out a new hiving place.

Best,

- nic