The Intelligent Cosmos

From Cosmos to Intelligent Life: The Four Ages of Astrobiology

The history of life on Earth and in other potential life-bearing planetary platforms is deeply linked to the history of the universe. Since life as we know it relies on chemical elements forged in dying heavy stars, the universe needs to be old enough for stars to form and evolve. Current cosmological theory indicates that the universe is 13.7±0.13 billion years old and that the first stars for...

Random ? Is the Cosmos

Few of Albert Einstein’s sayings have been as widely quoted as his remark that God does not play dice with the universe. People have naturally taken his quip as proof that he was dogmatically opposed to quantum mechanics, which views randomness as a built-in feature of the physical world. When a radioactive nucleus decays, it does so spontaneously; no rule will tell you when or why. When a part...

The Evolution of Cosmos

CoSMoS 2008

In recent years the concept of emergence has gained much attention as computer systems have started exhibiting properties usually associated with complex systems. Although emergence creates many problems for engineering complex computerized systems by introducing undesired behaviour, it also offers many possibilities for advancements in the area of adaptive self-organizing systems. However, at ...

CoSMoS 2011

We summarise the existing CoSMoS approach to modelling and simulating complex systems, then introduce how the various CoSMoS models are related via their metamodel, and demonstrate the generality of the process by discussing its application to engineering bio-inspired systems.