From biological to artificial complex systems in IT: toward a handbook of regulatory modules for the design of autonomous behavior in agent groups. Our research on biological systems tends to demonstrate that a limited number of behavioral building blocks are found to produce collective autonomous (or self-organized) behaviors. Our working hypothesis is that if these building blocks are implemented in artificial systems they lead to the same type of self-organized behaviors in groups of machines or computer networks (see European project Leurre and ECAgents ). The main goal is to classify and characterize such building blocks and then to identify a relevant context of use in IT.




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