ENGLISH

Brownian Agents and Active Particles: Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences

By Frank Schweitzer (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2007
ISBN
978-3-540-73844-2, 978-3-540-73845-9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-73845-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15569729 bytes)
Series
Springer Series in Synergetics
Edition
1
Pages
421\426
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics);StatisticDynamical Systems and Complexity;Game Theory/Mathe

Description

"This book lays out a vision for a coherent framework for understanding complex systems'' (from the foreword by J. Doyne Farmer). By developing the genuine idea of Brownian agents, the author combines concepts from informatics, such as multiagent systems, with approaches of statistical many-particle physics. This way, an efficient method for computer simulations of complex systems is developed which is also accessible to analytical investigations and quantitative predictions. The book demonstrates that Brownian agent models can be successfully applied in many different contexts, ranging from physicochemical pattern formation, to active motion and swarming in biological systems, to self-assembling of networks, evolutionary optimization, urban growth, economic agglomeration and even social systems.

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