Dynamics of Complex Systems Built as Coupled Physical, Communication and Decision Layers.

ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a simple model to capture the complexity of multilayer systems where their constituent layers affect, and are affected by, each other. The physical layer is a circuit composed by a power source and resistors in parallel. Every individual agent aims at maximizing its own delivered power by adding, removing or keeping the resistors it has; the delivered power is in turn a non-linear function that depends on the other agents' behavior, its own internal state, its global state perception, the information received from its neighbors via the communication network and a randomized selfishness. We develop an agent-based simulation to analyze the effects of number of agents (system size), communication network topology, communication errors and the minimum power gain that trigge

SUBMITTER: Kuhnlenz F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4701467 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature