Measuring Information Storage and Transfer in Swarms

ECAL 2011: The 11th European Conference on Artificial Life

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wang, X Rosalind ^a   Miller, Jennifer M ^b   Lizier, Joseph T ^c   Prokopenko, Mikhail ^a   Rossi, Louis F ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY;

ANIMAL GROUPS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONS; GLOBALOPTIMUM; INFORMATION DYNAMICS; INFORMATION THEORETIC MEASURE; LOCAL OPTIMA; LOCALISED; SPATIAL AGGREGATION; SWARM DYNAMICS; TRANSFER ENTROPY;

KINEMATICS;

EID: 85135571417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-29714-1-ch126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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