Overview

Cognitive Swarm Engine

The engine is an intelligent system that is connected to the internet. It may be distributed in nature, and may send out its own agents (spiders) in search of specific contents. It will employ search engines, the semantic web, and its own algorithms to maximize relevance and freshness of the corpus.

The corpus is the artifact produced by the interactions of the participants with the engine. Everything about it is dynamic, and it is expected that it will be constantly morphing and updating in real time, which is observable via one of the corpus viewers.

In addition to the engine, there will be a number of viewer and builder modules available to participants. Non-participants may use viewers as well, but only participants may use builders.

The artifact of the swarm is a growing corpus that is the sum of all contributions from participants and the engine itself, which continuously scans the corpus and injects contributions from the semantic web, prior swarms, or other corpii that belong to the metacorpus. Participants and the engine also create 'loopbacks' which refer back to prior contributions to the corpus, creating new connections within the corpus.