Complex collective phenomena, large scale global
patterns emerging from the interactions of systems
following rules are ubiquitous in nature and of great
interest to scientists. Reductionist approaches
cannot explicate the complexity and dynamics of
global phenomena. Research in non-linear dynamics,
fractal geometry, chaos and complexity has developed
many new tools which act as instruments to probe the
unseen depths of emergent behaviour. Complex systems
consist of individual components which can exhibit
new qualitative, sophisticated collective behaviour
that emerges from their interactions. The technique
developed in this book is derived from successful
approaches used in quantum physics combined with
theoretical ideas distilled from structural
complexity. A virtual simulation and computation
laboratory using a combination of mathematics,
statistics and computing is applied to investigate
robot soccer teams'' dynamics. The laboratory had to
be developed from scratch since this was the first
time robot soccer team dynamics had been investigated
in this way. It is analogous to the approach
physicists take in designing new instruments to
search for theoretical particles.
patterns emerging from the interactions of systems
following rules are ubiquitous in nature and of great
interest to scientists. Reductionist approaches
cannot explicate the complexity and dynamics of
global phenomena. Research in non-linear dynamics,
fractal geometry, chaos and complexity has developed
many new tools which act as instruments to probe the
unseen depths of emergent behaviour. Complex systems
consist of individual components which can exhibit
new qualitative, sophisticated collective behaviour
that emerges from their interactions. The technique
developed in this book is derived from successful
approaches used in quantum physics combined with
theoretical ideas distilled from structural
complexity. A virtual simulation and computation
laboratory using a combination of mathematics,
statistics and computing is applied to investigate
robot soccer teams'' dynamics. The laboratory had to
be developed from scratch since this was the first
time robot soccer team dynamics had been investigated
in this way. It is analogous to the approach
physicists take in designing new instruments to
search for theoretical particles.