A chemical model of the naming game

Abstract

A key feature of many biological distributed systems is that they have the capacity to behave in highly coordinated ways. In the domain of language, coordination dynamics have been studied within the framework of language games. As yet however, a fundamental understanding that goes beyond the simplest cases is still missing. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for investigating coordination problems. The approach is illustrated for a simple but well studied case called the naming game. It is also argued that the proposed approach provides a good starting point for tackling more complex coordination problems as well. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.