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The four themes

Behaviour in swarms

Ecology

What happens when agents become populations?

A tree depends on soil, sunlight, and the living things around it. Ecology studies these relationships between organisms and their environments. What ecology studies.

This series borrows that perspective for software agents. They share inboxes, markets, and services; what one does changes the conditions for others. More senders can make attention scarce. Copying a successful message can fill a channel with near-identical requests. A new intermediary can become someone every agent depends on.

The proposed experiments follow crowded channels, copied beliefs, and emerging roles. Each holds a task steady while changing population size, visibility, or access to information. The ecological analogy helps frame those relationships without treating software as a living organism.

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