Collectives and Design Complex Systems

A survey of collectives.- Theory of collective intelligence.- On learnable mechanism design.- Asynchronous learning in decentralized environments.- Competition between adaptive agents.- Managing catastrophic changes in a collective.- Effects of inter-agent communications on the collective.- Man and superman--human limitations, innovation, and emergence in resource competition.- Design principles for the distributed control of modular self-reconfigurable robots.- Two paradigms for the design of artificial collectives.- Efficiency and equity in collective systems of interacting heterogeneous agents.- Selection in coevolutionary algorithms and the inverse problem.- Dynamics of large autonomous computational systems.- Index.