Brownian Agents and Active Particles: Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences

By Frank Schweitzer. 2003

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Active Particles in Complex and Crowded Environments (2016, background): “swarming and the emergence of other collective properties (Schweitzer, 2007).”
Reinforcement Learning or Active Inference? (2009, background): “At this point, we introduce the notion of active agents [14] that sense a subset of states (with sensory organs) and can change others (with effector organs).”
Active Brownian particles (2012, methodology): “Emergent large-scale patterns of interacting self-driven motile elements are observed in a wide range of biological systems of different complexity: from human crowds, herds, bird flocks, and fish schools [154,306,343] to multicellular aggregates, e.”
Brownian motion: a paradigm of soft matter and biological physics (2005, background): “During the last 100 years, the facets of this vision have continuously multiplied, thereby providing ample evidence for a “slower” [10], yet “unfinished” [11] revolution.”
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Life is Physics: Evolution as a Collective Phenomenon Far From Equilibrium (2010, background): “We discuss how condensed matter physics concepts might provide a useful perspective in evolutionary biology, the conceptual failings of the modern evolutionary synthesis, the open-ended growth of complexity, and the quintessentially self-referential nature of evolutionary dynamics.”