Global emergent behaviors in clouds of agents

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5796-5799

  Kar, Soummya ^a   Moura, Jose M F ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergent behavior; Event based phenomena; Metastability; Multiagent modeling; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICS; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; EVENT-BASED; FIXED POINTS; GLOBAL BEHAVIORS; GRAPHICAL MODEL; INTERACTING AGENTS; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MEAN FIELD; METASTABILITIES; MULTI-AGENT MODELING; POWER GRIDS; STABLE EQUILIBRIUM; STOCHASTIC NETWORKS; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 80051624985     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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