1. Centre for Emergent Computing
Professor Ben Paechter

2. 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.

3. Emergent Systems in Nature
Shoals of fish
Swarms of bees
Bacterial infection
The immune system
Evolution
Brains

4. Areas of Emergent Computing
Self organising systems
Ant colony optimisation
Artificial immune systems
Swarm intelligence
Artificial neural networks
Evolutionary computing

5. Current Centre Projects
NewTies – massive simulated Society
Water distribution optimisation
Speckled computing self organisation
Peer-to-Peer network self organisation

6. Nature of CEC Honours Projects
Optimisation
Visualisation
Simulation
Hard programming
Chance to get excellent marks
Chance to participate in real research projects

7. Who to Contact Ben Paechter – D51 – b.paechter@napier.ac.uk
Emma Hart – D52 –