Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems
(Sprache: Englisch)
Many complex systems found in nature can be viewed as function optimizers. In particular, they can be viewed as such optimizers of functions in extremely high dimensional spaces. Given the difficulty of performing such high-dimensional op timization with...
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Many complex systems found in nature can be viewed as function optimizers. In particular, they can be viewed as such optimizers of functions in extremely high dimensional spaces. Given the difficulty of performing such high-dimensional op timization with modern computers, there has been a lot of exploration of computa tional algorithms that try to emulate those naturally-occurring function optimizers. Examples include simulated annealing (SA [15,18]), genetic algorithms (GAs) and evolutionary computation [2,3,9,11,20-22,24,28]. The ultimate goal of this work is an algorithm that can, for any provided high-dimensional function, come close to extremizing that function. Particularly desirable would be such an algorithm that works in an adaptive and robust manner, without any explicit knowledge of the form of the function being optimized. In particular, such an algorithm could be used for distributed adaptive control---one of the most important tasks engineers will face in the future, when the systems they design will be massively distributed and horribly messy congeries ofcomputational systems.
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.
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems “
1. A Survey of Collectives.- 2. Theory of Collective Intelligence.- 3. On Learnable Mechanism Design.- 4. Asynchronous Learning in Decentralized Environments: A Game-Theoretic Approach.- 5. Competition between Adaptive Agents: Learning and Collective Efficiency.- 6. Managing Catastrophic Changes in a Collective.- 7. Effects of Interagent Communications on the Collective.- 8. Man and Superman: Human Limitations, Innovation, and Emergence in Resource Competition.- 9. Design Principles for the Distributed Control of Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots.- 10. Two Paradigms for the Design of Artificial Collectives.- 11. Efficiency and Equity in Collective Systems of Interacting Heterogeneous Agents.- 12. Selection in Coevolutionary Algorithms and the Inverse Problem.- 13. Dynamics of Large Autonomous Computational Systems.- About the Editors.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2012, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004, XI, 323 Seiten, Maße: 15,8 x 23,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Kagan Tumer, David Wolpert
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1461264723
- ISBN-13: 9781461264729
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
From the reviews: "From the cybernetics point of view complex systems embrace a great number of disciplines ... . this text is concerned with a computer-science viewpoint and addresses issues in the design of complex systems. It is presented as a collection of chapters which although independent make up a readable whole. The book is highly recommended by several writers and reviewers." (C.J.H. Mann, Kybernetes: The International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics, (34) 5, 2005)
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