Guided Self-Organization: Inception

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Prokopenko, Mikhail (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation, 9
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computers.; Artificial intelligence.; Statistical physics.; Computational intelligence.; Complexity, Computational.; Complexity.; Theory of Computation.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computational Intelligence.; Nonlinear Dynamics.

Is it possible to guide the process of self-organisation towards specific patterns and outcomes?  Wouldn’t this be self-contradictory?   After all, a self-organising process assumes a transition into a more organised form, or towards a more structured functionality, in the absence of centralised con...

Table of Contents:

• Foundational frameworks
• Coordinated behaviour and learning within an embodied agent
• Swarms and networks of agents.