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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Emergent behavior"”.
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Collective and emergent behavior of living systems
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Emergent behavior of cells on microfabricated soft polymeric substrates
… elusive. This dissertation tries to explore the emergent behavior of cells on different types of micro-scale deformable, soft polymeric substrates. In the first part of the dissertation, contractile dynamics of primary cardiomyocyte clusters is studied by culturing them on deformable thin …
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An Experimentally-validated Agent-based Model to Study the Emergent Behavior of Bacterial Communities
… expression), bacterial population dynamics and emergent behavior play a key role in regulating their own life and their impact on their immediate environment. Computational models that accurately and robustly describe bacterial population behavior and response to environmental stimuli are …
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AutomaTiles : tangible cellular automata for playful engagement with systems thinking
… our world is an aggregate of complex systems, emergent behavior, and system dynamics. The perceptual and analytical tools for exploring and studying these systems, however, have generally been relegated to scientists (whether mathematicians, physicists, biologists, economists, or computer …
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Modeling The Functional Human Brain: A Network-Based Approach
… to observe the complete topology and to capture emergent behavior not present at the component level. Network based models enable us to study how low level interactions in the brain can produce emergent behaviors, and identify regions that are most central to those behaviors. This project takes …
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Biology-Inspired Approach for Communal Behavior in Massively Deployed Sensor Networks
… achieve global goals, thus we must engineer for emergent behavior in wireless sensor networks. First we implemented a simulator based on cellular automata to be used in algorithm development and assessment. Then we developed efficient algorithms to exploit emergent behavior for finding the …
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Towards an integrated understanding of neural networks
… is relatively little theory for how the observed behavior of these networks arises. Even the connectivity of neurons within the brain remains largely unknown, and popular deep learning algorithms lack theoretical justification or reliability guarantees. This thesis aims towards a more rigorous …
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Determining Properties of Synaptic Structure in a Neural Network through Spike Train Analysis
… interacting components and tends to exhibit emergent behavior that cannot be explained by analyzing each component separately. A biological neural network is one example of such a system. A multi-agent model of such a network is developed to study the relationships between a network's …
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A Framework for Web Object Self-Preservation
<p>We propose and develop a framework based on emergent behavior principles for the long-term preservation of digital data using the web infrastructure. We present the development of the framework called unsupervised small-world (USW) which is at the nexus of emergent behavior, graph theory, and …
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Consensus Algorithms for Estimation and Discrete Averaging in Networked Control Systems
… rules between the agents such that as global emergent behavior the network converges to the so called "consensus" or "agreement" state where the value of each agent's state is the same and it is possibly a function of the initial network state, for instance the average. A consensus algorithm …
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Aspects of automation mode confusion
… This thesis examines mode confusion as an emergent property of the operator and the automation. It develops models of the automation and the operator and then studies their emergent behavior. It then applies the model in a case study.
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Adventitious differential reinforcement of emergent sample-specific behavior and common coding in pigeons' matching-to-sample
… the comparison mappings. They concluded that the emergent behavior reflected emergent relations and called the behavior "naming", but it is possible that unintended adventitious differential reinforcement produced the effect. Experiment 1 was designed to replicate these findings in pigeons and …
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Investigating non-equilibrium phenomena in active matter systems
… a great deal of interest due to their rich emergent non-equilibrium behavior. Some of the most vital and ubiquitous biological systems and processes are active matter systems including reproduction, wound healing, dynamical adaptation, chemotaxis, and cell differentiation. Active matter …
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Effects of interactions on correlation, thermalization, and transport of exciton-polaritons
… other hand, result in strong correlations and emergent behavior that cannot be explained in terms of single-particle physics. Exciton-polaritons (hereafter "polaritons") are hybrid quasiparticles in a semiconductor quantum-well microcavity that exhibit both light-matter and matter-matter …
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Architecting system of systems: artificial life analysis of financial market behavior
… utilized by system architects to understand the emergent behavior of system architectures. The objective is to design a framework that is modular and flexible in providing different ways of modeling sub-systems of System of Systems. At the same time, the framework should capture the adaptive …
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Searching for patterns in Conway's Game of Life
… by John Conway in 1970, that exhibits complex emergent behavior. Life-enthusiasts have been looking for building blocks with specific properties (patterns) to answer unsolved problems in Life for the past five decades. Finding patterns in Life is difficult due to the large search space. Current …
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Emergent behaviors in microbial communities
Physics of systems around us are often emergent, shaped by not only the fundamental constituents but their interactions, structures, and symmetries at larger scales. Microbial communities, which play indispensable roles in nature, are complex active systems that naturally pushes us to the …
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Embodied emergence : distributed computing manipulatives
Distributed systems and the emergent properties that can arise out of simple localized interactions have fascinated scientists and artists alike for the last century. They challenge the notions of control and creativity, producing outcomes that can be beautiful, engaging and surprising at the same …
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A Portable Approach to High-Level Behavioral Programming for Complex Autonomous Robot Applications
… has taken the problems of robot cognition and behavioral control out of the lab and into the field. Two good examples of this are the DARPA Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle race and the RoboCup robot soccer competition. In these challenges, a mobile robot must be capable of completing …
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A Reference Model and Architecture for Future Computer Networks
… heterogeneity, regulate network-inherent emergent behavior, and overcome shortcomings attributed to present network realizations. This dissertation presents our proposed clean-slate Concern-Oriented Reference Model (CORM) for architecting future computer networks. CORM stands as a guiding …
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