Centre for Emergent Computing Professor Ben Paechter
What is Emergent Computing? Emergent Computing studies, and is inspired by, systems in which structure or complex behaviour at the global level emerge from the local interaction of large numbers of simpler components.
Emergent Systems in Nature Shoals of fish Swarms of bees Bacterial infection The immune system Evolution Brains
Areas of Emergent Computing Self organising systems Ant colony optimisation Artificial immune systems Swarm intelligence Artificial neural networks Evolutionary computing
Current Centre Projects NewTies – massive simulated Society Water distribution optimisation Speckled computing self organisation Peer-to-Peer network self organisation
Nature of CEC Honours Projects Optimisation Visualisation Simulation Hard programming Chance to get excellent marks Chance to participate in real research projects
Who to Contact Ben Paechter – D51 – b.paechter@napier.ac.uk Emma Hart – D52 – e.hart@napier.ac.uk