TY - JOUR
T1 - On emergent complex behaviour, self-organised criticality and phase transitions in multi-agent systems
T2 - Autonomy oriented computing (AOC) perspectives
AU - LIU, Jiming
AU - Hu, Bingcheng
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2008/5
Y1 - 2008/5
N2 - In a Multi-Agent System (MAS), there usually exist system-level goals that agents are collectively trying to attain. Generally speaking, the local behaviours and performances of individual agents directly determine which global characteristics of an MAS, for example, the global performance and/or patterns, will emerge and how the system-level goals will be attained. In most cases, such a local global relationship is neither obvious nor straightforward. In this paper, we will address several issues on modelling emergent complex behaviours in MAS. In particular, we will focus on the local global relationship in a Self-Organising MAS (SOMAS), and discuss the phenomena of Self-Organised Criticality (SOC) and phase transition in SOMAS.
AB - In a Multi-Agent System (MAS), there usually exist system-level goals that agents are collectively trying to attain. Generally speaking, the local behaviours and performances of individual agents directly determine which global characteristics of an MAS, for example, the global performance and/or patterns, will emerge and how the system-level goals will be attained. In most cases, such a local global relationship is neither obvious nor straightforward. In this paper, we will address several issues on modelling emergent complex behaviours in MAS. In particular, we will focus on the local global relationship in a Self-Organising MAS (SOMAS), and discuss the phenomena of Self-Organised Criticality (SOC) and phase transition in SOMAS.
KW - Autonomy-oriented computing
KW - Emergent complex behaviour
KW - Multi-agent systems
KW - Phase transition
KW - RoboNBA
KW - Self-organisation
KW - Self-organised criticality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=43749084170&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1504/IJMIC.2008.018182
DO - 10.1504/IJMIC.2008.018182
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:43749084170
SN - 1746-6172
VL - 3
SP - 3
EP - 16
JO - International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control
JF - International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control
IS - 1
ER -