Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2004
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-40165-2 (ISBN)

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Lays the foundation for the study of collective intelligence and how these entities can be developed to yield optimal performance. Integrating theoretical principles with applications in real-world scenarios, this book surveys the research on the dynamics of collectives, their artificial intelligence aspects, and critical design issues.

With the advent of extremely affordable computing power, the world is becoming filled with distributed systems of computationally sophisticated components. However, no current scientific discipline offers a thorough understanding of the relation of such "collectives" and how well they meet performance criteria.Collectives and Design of Complex Systems lays the foundation for the study of collective intelligence and how these entities can be developed to yield optimal performance. Part one describes how some information-processing problems can only be solved by the joint actions of large communities of computers, each running their own complex, decentralized machine-learning algorithms. Part two offers general analysis on the dynamics and structures of collectives. Finally, part three addresses economic,model-free, and control-theory approaches to designing these complex systems. The work assumes a modest understanding of basic statistics and calculus.Integrates theory with real-world practice.

A survey of collectives.- Theory of collective intelligence.- On learnable mechanism design.- Asynchronous learning in decentralized environments.- Competition between adaptive agents.- Managing catastrophic changes in a collective.- Effects of inter-agent communications on the collective.- Man and superman--human limitations, innovation, and emergence in resource competition.- Design principles for the distributed control of modular self-reconfigurable robots.- Two paradigms for the design of artificial collectives.- Efficiency and equity in collective systems of interacting heterogeneous agents.- Selection in coevolutionary algorithms and the inverse problem.- Dynamics of large autonomous computational systems.- Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.6.2004
Zusatzinfo	83 black & white illustrations, 7 black & white halftones, 76 black & white line drawings
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
ISBN-10	0-387-40165-2 / 0387401652
ISBN-13	978-0-387-40165-2 / 9780387401652
Zustand	Neuware