Discussion group on Entropy and Self-organisation in Multi-Agent Systems
In April-June 2006, we discussed 10 selected papers from 1983-2005:
01) 05/04/2006: Grassberger, P. and Procaccia, I., Estimation of the Kolmogorov entropy from a chaotic signal, Physical Review A, 28(4):2591, 1983
02) 19/04/2006: Parts I and II (27 pages of 61-page long paper), J. P. Crutchfield, The Calculi of Emergence: Computation, Dynamics, and Induction, Physica D 75, 1994
03) 26/04/2006: R. Der, U. Steinmetz, F. Pasemann: Homeokinesis - A new principle to back up evolution with learning, Concurrent Systems Engineering Series, Vol. 55, 1999
04) 03/05/2006: Schreiber, T., Measuring Information Transfer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 461–464, 2000
05) 10/05/2006: Latora, V. and Marchiori, M., Efficient Behavior of Small-World Networks, Physical Review Letters, 87(19), 2001
Half-time break) 15/05/06: discussion of overlaps, if any, among papers (01)-(05), and future points of interest
and a talk on Decentralised Clustering in Multi-agent Systems, by Dr Elth Ogston (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
06) 22/05/2006: Venkatasubramanian, V., Politis, D.N., Patkar, P.R., Entropy Maximization as a Holistic Design Principle for Complex Optimal Networks and the Emergence of Power Laws, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Volume 28, Issue 9, 1789-1798, 2004
07) 29/05/2006: D. P. Feldman and J. P. Crutchfield, Structural Information in Two-Dimensional Patterns: Entropy Convergence and Excess Entropy, Physical Review E 67, 2003
08) 05/06/2006: C. R. Shalizi, K. L. Shalizi, R. Haslinger, Quantifying Self-Organization with Optimal Predictors, Physical Review Letters, vol. 93, 11, 2004
09) 19/06/2006: C. Adami, What is complexity?, Bioessays, Vol. 24, 12, 1085-1094, 2002
10) 26/06/2006: Klyubin, A. S., Polani, D., and Nehaniv, C. L., All Else Being Equal Be Empowered, ECAL, 2005
