Dr. Carl Anderson
 
Anderson/Interface Visiting Assistant Professor in Natural Systems
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205, USA
 
Email: carl@isye.gatech.edu
Tel: 404-385-4082 / Fax: 404-894-2301
 
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Research interests

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

Summary of research interests to date

Complex adaptive systems

(with insect societies as model system)

Division of labor Cooperation and teamwork Task partitioning Information use Biological complexity New methodologies
Threshold models Teams in animal societies Natural history & modeling Analysis of honeybee signals Self-organization Metric for task complexity
Specialization and elitism Intermediate level parts Fieldwork on leaf-cutter ants Improving information quality Individual vs. social complexity New home range analysis method
    Parallels with industry   Evolutionary transitions Analysis of behavioral catalogues

Recent presentations

Truck painting presentation "When chickens paint trucks: lessons in distributed intelligence. Given 16 Oct 2002 to the ECDM group in MaRC, Gerogia Tech

GaTech Biology departmental seminar "Complexity and work organization in insect societies," given 6 September, 2002

Natural systems presentation. Given to the natural systems group, 11th December 2002


Email: carl@isye.gatech.edu   Updated: 9th June 2002