Abstract:
The emergence of behavioural and structural congruence based on simple
local interactions of atomic units is a fascination to the scientific community
across many disciplines. The climax of behavioural congruence and
emergence of behaviour is exemplified by the community life-style of ants.
Each individual ant possesses the capability to solve only part of the overall
puzzle while aggressively communicating in primitive methods with the
spatially related neighbours to produce emergent behaviour. Hence, ant
colonies have evolved means of performing collective tasks, which are far
beyond the capabilities of their individual structures. The consensus is that
comprehension of emergent complexity in insect colonies such as ants
would serve as a good foundation for the study of emergent, collective
behaviour in more advanced social organisms. As evidence of structural
congruence, the realisation of a phenotype from a single genotype during
the embryonic development, and some theories of the human mind that
describe intelligence as a synergy of mindless constituents provide insight to
die emergence theories. These facts argue that there exists a fundamental
theory for structural and behavioural congruence that is yet to be
discovered.
The primary hypothesis of die research is that the constituent atomic actions
of a complex behaviour could be successfully coordinated by collaborative
and autonomous agents that are loosely coupled through implicit
communication to demonstrate emergent congruent behaviour in dynamic
The resulting congruent behaviour could be further
optimised by using a hybrid learning approach that models adaptive
behaviour on a static foundation of innate elementary behaviour.
