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Non-reciprocal interactions are a defining feature of many complex systems, biological, ecological, and technological, often pushing them far from equilibrium and enabling rich dynamical responses. These asymmetries can arise at multiple…

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We investigate the dynamics of a network consisting of an array of identical cortical units with nearest neighbor interactions under periodic arousal. Each unit consists of two interconnected populations of neurons tuned to a state in which…

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Lurking is a complex user-behavioral phenomenon that occurs in all large-scale online communities and social networks. It generally refers to the behavior characterizing users that benefit from the information produced by others in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Marco Alberto Javarone , Roberto Interdonato , Andrea Tagarelli

Emergent communication in artificial agents has been studied to understand language evolution, as well as to develop artificial systems that learn to communicate with humans. We show that agents performing a cooperative navigation task in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Ivana Kajić , Eser Aygün , Doina Precup

The dynamics of protection processes has been a fundamental challenge in systemic risk analysis. The conceptual principle and methodological techniques behind the mechanisms involved [in such dynamics] have been harder to grasp than…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Chulwook Park

We present the MagNet, a neural network-based multi-agent interaction model to discover the governing dynamics and predict evolution of a complex multi-agent system from observations. We formulate a multi-agent system as a coupled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Priyabrata Saha , Arslan Ali , Burhan A. Mudassar , Yun Long , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Competition for a limited resource is the hallmark of many complex systems, and often, that resource turns out to be the physical space itself. In this work, we study a novel model designed to elucidate the dynamics and emergence in complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-18 Ann Mary Mathew , V Sasidevan

Networks are fundamental for our understanding of complex systems. Interactions between individual nodes in networks generate network motifs - small recurrent patterns that can be considered the network's building-block components,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Miri Adler , Ruslan Medzhitov

Many complex adaptive systems contain a large diversity of specialized components. The specialization at the level of the microscopic degrees of freedom, and diversity at the level of the system as a whole are phenomena that appear during…

adap-org · Physics 2007-05-23 Vivek S. Borkar , Sanjay Jain , Govindan Rangarajan

Collective decision making using simple social interactions has been studied in many types of multi-agent systems, including robot swarms and human social networks. However, existing multi-agent studies have rarely modeled the neural…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Nicolas Coucke , Mary Katherine Heinrich , Axel Cleeremans , Marco Dorigo , Guillaume Dumas

Emergent communication protocols among humans and artificial neural network agents do not yet share the same properties and show some critical mismatches in results. We describe three important phenomena with respect to the emergence and…

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We propose a model of emergence of cooperation in evolutionary games that high- lights the role of network formation and effect of network structure. In line with empirical data, the model proposes a mechanism that explains the persistence…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-12-14 David Chavalarias

Learning and adaptation play great role in emergent socio-economic phenomena. Complex dynamics has been previously found in the systems of multiple learning agents interacting via a simple game. Meanwhile, the single agent adaptation is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-18 Arkady Zgonnikov , Ihor Lubashevsky

Systems composed of distinct complex networks are present in many real-world environments, from society to ecological systems. In the present paper, we propose a network model obtained as a consequence of interactions between two species…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 Luis Enrique Correa da Rocha , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Multiagent systems aim to accomplish highly complex learning tasks through decentralised consensus seeking dynamics and their use has garnered a great deal of attention in the signal processing and computational intelligence societies. This…

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From pedestrians to Kuramoto oscillators, interactions between agents govern how dynamical systems evolve in space and time. Discovering how these agents relate to each other has the potential to improve our understanding of the often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yulong Yang , Bowen Feng , Keqin Wang , Naomi Ehrich Leonard , Adji Bousso Dieng , Christine Allen-Blanchette

Modularity structures are common in various social and biological networks. However, its dynamical origin remains an open question. In this work, we set up a dynamical model describing the evolution of a social network. Based on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-19 Menghui Li , Shuguang Guan , Choy-Heng Lai

Various theoretical and empirical studies have accounted for why humans cooperate in competitive environments. Although prior work has revealed that network structure and multiplex interactions can promote cooperation, most theory assumes…

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The agent-based modelling community has a debate on how ``intelligent'' artificial agents should be, and in what ways their local intelligence relates to the emergence of a collective intelligence. I approach this debate by endowing the…

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