This essay is designed to organize a range of experimental findings and theoretical insights of the past 25 years into a coherent view of the brain’s style of function. The view...
We implement a self-organized flocking behavior in a group of mobile robots and analyze its transition from an aligned state to an unaligned state. We briefly describe the robot an...
Small-world networks have become an important model for understanding many complex phenomena in science and in sociological contexts. One tool for exploring the critical and phase...
We propose a novel, high-level model of human learning and cognition, based on association forming. The model configures any input data stream featuring a high incidence of repeti...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...