Structure-generating mechanisms in agent-based models
Authored by RV Mendes
Date Published: 2001-06-15
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4371(01)00117-0
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Abstract
The emergence of dynamical structures in multi-agent systems is analysed. Three different mechanisms are identified, namely: (1) sensitive-dependence (in the agent dynamics) and convex coupling, (2) sensitive-dependence and extremal dynamics and (3) interaction through a collectively generated field. The dynamical origin of the emergent structures is traced back either to a modification, by interaction, of the Lyapunov spectrum or to multistable dynamics. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V, All rights reserved.
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self-organization
Agents
structures