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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Emergent Behaviour"”.
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Multi-agent Communication Protocols with Emergent Behaviour
The emergent behaviour of a multiagent system depends on the component agents and how they interact. A critical part of interaction between agents is communication. This thesis presents a multi-agent system communication model for physical moving agents. The work presented in this thesis provides …
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Playing Ethnography: A study of emergent behaviour in online games and virtual worlds
… with the relationship between game design and emergent social behaviour in massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds. This thesis argues for a legitimisation of the study of ‘communities of play’, alongside communities perceived as more ‘serious’, such as communities of interest or …
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A Framework for Exploiting Emergent Behaviour to capture 'Best Practice' within a Programming Domain
… the ability to improve knowledge. This observed behaviour can be described as the emergent behaviour of the group of programmers during the review. The wider distribution of knowledge is currently only performed by programmers attending other reviews. To maximise the benefits of peer code review, …
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Emergent Behaviour in Game AI: A Genetic Programming and CNN-based Approach to Intelligent Agent Design
Emergent behaviour is behaviour that arises from the interactions between the individual components of a system, rather than being explicitly programmed or designed. In this work, genetic programming is used to evolve an adaptive game AI, also known as an intelligent agent, whose job is to capture …
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Design and application of convergent cellular automata
… interacting elements may display unanticipated emergent properties. A system for which the desired properties are the same as those which emerge will be inherently robust. Currently available techniques for designing emergent properties are prohibitively costly for all but the simplest systems. …
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Geometric and Topological Aspects of Soft & Active Matter
… units that exhibit large scale collective and emergent behaviour, as commonly seen in living systems. By focusing on active liquid crystals in two dimensions, with both polar and nematic orientational order, I show how broken time-reversal symmetry due to the active drive allows polar flocks on …
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To explore the holistic behaviour of the UK Intellectual Property Office using the Complex Adaptive System paradigm
… aim of this research is to explore the holistic behaviour of the UK Intellectual Property Office, using the complex adaptive system paradigm. The study contributes to knowledge and practice through the refinement of the complexity strategy matrix, which portrays organisations as degrees of …
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Multi-agent Spatiotemporal Simulation of Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Operation
… by the GAMA platform. The model simulates the behaviour and interactions of individual agents, which are fleet agents and commuters, to observe the emergent behaviour of the entire system. Within the experiment, different scenarios are considered for both people and fleets to explore a range of …
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Understanding performance measurement from a social systems perspective
… are heterogeneous entities whose capabilities, behaviours, and circumstances are unique, emerging from their histories and previous decisions. Organisational reality is a social construct delivered through practice. This thesis investigates whether considering PM from a social systems …
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Agent-based modelling of cell-cell interactions for in vitro vascular formation and cancer cell growth
… with each other and environment, and exhibit emergent behaviour. Here, I consider the formation of vascular structures in the body as a complex system consisting of an emergent pattern in interacting endothelial cells. A cancer tumour is a different but related complex system that contains …
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The role of space in homeostasis and preneoplasia in stratified squamous epithelia
… appeared to shrink. Considering this consistent emergent behaviour in the competition simulations and given the paucity of Notch mutations in human cancer datasets, it is tempting to speculate that the aggressive fitness of Notch may offer a tumour-protective effect.
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Emergent Communication: The evolution of simplistic machines using different communication types
… number of local interactions that occur in group behaviour. A global phenomenon known as âemergenceâ arises from such behaviour. The phrase ââthe whole is greater than the sum of its partsâ normally describes emergence. In this research, we investigate how the two methods of communicating, direct …
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Learning Strategies for Evolved Co-operating Multi-Agent Teams in Pursuit Domain
… The outcome of each part of this study reveals emergent behaviours in different forms of message sending patterns. The results from Part 1 reveal a general synchronization behaviour emerging from simple message passing among agents. Additionally, the results show a learned behaviour in the best …
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Computational aspects of cellular intelligence and their role in artificial intelligence.
… of Escherichia coli and is shown to capture emergent characteristics associated with this organism and Cellular Intelligence more generally. The computational properties of the ARN and its applications in robotic control are explored by combining functional motifs found in biochemical network …
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Understanding the Collective Dynamics of Motile Cilia in Human Airways
Eukaryotic organisms rely on the coordinated beating of motile cilia for a multitude of fundamental reasons. In smaller organisms, such as Paramecium and the single cell alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, it is a matter of propulsion, to swim towards a higher concentration of nutrients or away from …
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La Conciencia: Modelado de sus funciones cognitivas para entidades artificiales mediante redes neuronales modulares
… como es el caso del llamado “comportamiento emergente” [Ba97]. Como se ha mencionado, dentro de las funciones cognitivas asociadas a la conciencia, destacan algunas –de mayor nivel de abstracción- que son consideradas de gran complejidad, las cuales se encuentran exclusivamente en humano y …