ABSTRACT
It Has Been a common misbelief that intelligence and coordinated behavior is the result of a single mind’s activity. In his seminal work The Society of Mind Marvin Minsky described a new model to explain intelligence consisting of a distributed social network of connected agents, the behavior of whom is driven by their personal goals, beliefs, and constraints as a response to external stimuli. Minsky argued that intelligence is thus not a single-mind phenomenon, but instead the product of properly wired collective behavior. Today, current research on distributed sensor networks uses market mechanisms and basic micro-economic behavior as the means to create emergent patterns of collective intelligence for managing resource allocation among the sensor nodes. How can these ideas be used to create smarter urban environments?
