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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484405103321

Autore

Schumann Andrew

Titolo

Behaviourism in Studying Swarms: Logical Models of Sensing and Motoring / / by Andrew Schumann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-91542-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 468 p. 117 illus., 25 illus. in color.)

Collana

Emergence, Complexity and Computation, , 2194-7287 ; ; 33

Disciplina

006.38

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Computational complexity

Artificial intelligence

Computational Intelligence

Complexity

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Actin Filament Networks -- Unconventional Computers Designed on Swarm Behaviours -- Conventional and Unconventional Automata on Swarm Behaviours -- Non-Archimedean Valued Fuzzy and Probability Logics -- Individual-Collective Duality in Swarm Behaviours -- Syllogistic Systems of Swarm Propagation -- Context-Based Games of Swarms.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents fundamental theoretical results for designing object-oriented programming languages for controlling swarms. It studies the logics of swarm behaviours. According to behaviourism, all behaviours can be controlled or even managed by stimuli in the environment: attractants (motivational reinforcement) and repellents (motivational punishment). At the same time, there are two main stages in reactions to stimuli: sensing (perceiving signals) and motoring (appropriate direct reactions to signals). This book examines the strict limits of behaviourism the point of view of symbolic logic and algebraic mathematics: how far can animal behaviours be controlled by the topology of stimuli? On the one hand, we can try to design reversible



logic gates in which the number of inputs is the same as the number of outputs. In the authors’ case, the behaviouristic stimuli are inputs in swarm computing and appropriate reactions at the motoring stage are its outputs. On the other hand, the problem is that even at the sensing stage each unicellular organism can be regarded as a logic gate in which the number of outputs (means of perceiving signals) greatly exceeds the number of inputs (signals). .