A Concept of Hierarchical Petri Nets with Building Blocks
Papers from the 12th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets: Advances in Petri Nets 1993
Toward a formalization of emergence
Artificial Life
Causal architecture, complexity and self-organization in time series and cellular automata
Causal architecture, complexity and self-organization in time series and cellular automata
Blind construction of optimal nonlinear recursive predictors for discrete sequences
UAI '04 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
Agent Technology from a Formal Perspective (NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering)
Agent Technology from a Formal Perspective (NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering)
Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
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Agent-based models (ABM) and their simulations have been used to study complex systems with interacting entities and to model multi-agent systems. Simulations are used to explore the dynamic consequences of these models. In many cases, the behaviours that are of interest are emergent ones that arise as a result of interactions between agents rather than the actions of any individual agent. In this paper, we propose a formalism for describing emergent behaviours at any level of abstraction based on the idea that event types can be defined that characterise sets of behavioural 'motifs'. This provides the basis for a method for studying the associations between multi-level behaviours in simulations. There are two categories of hypotheses that we seek to address with respect to an ABM and its simulations: - Hypotheses concerned with associations between emergent behaviours defined at various levels of abstraction. - Hypotheses concerned with the links between parameter sensitivity / initial conditions and emergent behaviours e.g. the ABM is sensitive to a parameter x because x predisposes the system or part of the system to exhibit a particular (emergent) behaviour.