We compare the empirical performance of the unitary and the collective approach to modelling observed labour supply behaviour. Deviating from the mainstream literature, we conduct a nonparametric analysis, which avoids the distortive impact of an erroneously specified functional form for the preferences and/or the intrahousehold bargaining process. Our analysis specifically focuses on the goodn...

This paper analyses the fundamental primitives in the data-parallel computational model and proposes architectural solutions to these within the framework of a dataparallel data ow computer. The collective behaviour of this paradigm enables the use of a novel caching mechanism to be used in conjunction with an ETS matching store. It is also shown how collective behaviour may be exploited in opt...

Coupling planar microelectrode arrays to populations of neurons cultured in vitro allows the researcher to record / stimulate for a long period of time signals from several units in a network. This represents a new framework for experiments expressly dealing with the collective behaviour displayed by networks of neurons under various chemical physical conditions. The availability of multisite e...

Synchronization of multiple chaotic oscillators in Hamiltonian form is numerically studied and is achieved by appealing to complex systems theory [1-5]. The topology that we consider is the irregular coupled network. Two cases are considered: i) chaotic synchronization without master oscillator (where the final collective behaviour is a new chaotic state) and ii) chaotic synchronization with ma...

Please cite this article in press as: Sueur, C. mental and theoretical approach, Animal Be In primates, authors have reported the specific organization of individuals during collective movements. Some authors have suggested that intentional mechanisms underlie this particular organization because primates have high cognitive abilities that can allow them to use this kind of behaviour. However, ...

The giant single-celled slime mould Physarum polycephalum exhibits complex morphological adaptation and amoeboid movement as it forages for food and may be seen as a minimal example of complex robotic behaviour. Swarm computation has previously been used to explore how spatio-temporal complexity can emerge from, and be distributed within, simple component parts and their interactions. Using a p...

Collective displacement is a very useful behaviour for living creatures. This behaviour can appear in a flock of birds, a school of fish, or a swarm of insects. Flocking behaviour is a common demonstration of the power of simple rules in collective displacement emergence by (Reynolds, 2007). The study of the displacement of a robot in an unknown universe is a traditional subject of robotics (Fr...