Stigmergy and Mutualism in Learning Teams: the STiMUS Agent-Based Model and its Application to Instructional Design
This paper presents STiMUS (Stigmergy and Mutualism in Socio-Technical Systems), an agent-based model implemented in NetLogo 7.0. The model formalises two complementary coordination mechanisms in digital project teams. The first is stigmergy: contributor agents select shared artefacts to work on by following traces lef...