How local information leads to global coordination (Score 1, Informative)

This seems like a fascinating book. I wrote a research paper on how local information leads to global coordination, and seems very relevant to the topics covered in the book. The idea is to take an array of nodes which are in one of two states. Each node can tell the state of only a few neighbors on either side. The idea is to find a cellular automata rule so that all states in the array converge to one state (this is known as the density classification task). This is the "local information can lead to global wisom" idea as stated in the review and is relevent to a score of biological and economic decentralized systems. I used genetic algorithms to solve this problem. I was a semi-finalist in the Siemens-Westinghouse contest and submitted the paper to the Intel Talent Search (yet to be judged). A pdf can be found at http://www.chem-phys.com/intel/alex.pdf