Culture. Self-Organization. Modeling

Soft-patchy nanoparticles: modeling and self-organization.

We consider a novel class of patchy particles inspired by polymer-based complex units where the limited valence in bonding is accompanied by soft interactions and incessant fluctuations of the patch positions, possibly leading to reversible modifications of the patch number and size. We introduce a simple model that takes into account the aforementioned features and we focus on the role played ...

Modeling and Engineering Self-Organization in Complex Software Systems

Modeling and Engineering Self-Organization in Complex Software Systems Paul L. Snyder Giuseppe Valetto, Ph.D. Describing, understanding, and modeling the emergent behavior of self-organizing software systems remains an open challenge. Such systems can solve problems in computing domains where traditional, centralized models are impractical or problematic, including ubiquitous and pervasive comp...

Non-Linear Time Series Modeling with Self-Organization Feature Maps

A locally linear approach based on Kohonen self-organizing feature mapping (SOFM) is proposed for the modeling of non-linear time series. This approach exploits the neighborhood preserving property of Kohonen feature maps. The key difference is that the local model fitting is performed directly over a matched neighborhood of the constructed SOFM neural field. The initial results show that this ...

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS , INDIVIDUAL - BASED MODELING , AND SELF - ORGANIZATION Edwin

Self-Organization and Resource Exchange in EVS Modeling

Two versions of a model, named Resource, were developed within the Ensembles with Variable Structure (EVS) approach. The EVS-approach represents interacting groups (populations) with a flexible structure of connections and a diversity of elements (agents), where agents possess an abstract set of characteristics, and seek to form connections with other agents according to the degree of compatibi...