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SUMMARY:Complexity and Robustness in Colonies of Agents:  A Formal Languag
 es and a Game Theory Approach - Matteo Cavaliere\, CoSBi
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CONTACT:Dr Fabien Petitcolas
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*: Inspired by  the intracellular and intercellular m
 echanisms in biological tissues\, a colony of agents is defined as a popul
 ation of “similar” agents\, embedded in a shared environment\,  that c
 an interact by means of well-specified rules. Complex and coherent behavio
 rs  are obtained by allowing\, programming and  controlling  the interacti
 ons of the agents. We present two abstractions for these systems: (i) base
 d on formal languages theory \, where agents and environment are multisets
 \, and (ii) where agents are players of a game and the environment is spec
 ified in terms of graphs.  We show how complexity and robustness can be an
 alyzed and we propose applications to tissue generation and tumor formatio
 n.\n\n*Biography*: Matteo Cavaliere completed his PhD in Computer Science\
 , Logic and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Seville (Spain) i
 n 2006. He has published papers in international journals and conferences 
 in the area of computer science and natural computing (Theoretical Compute
 r Science\, Fundamenta Informaticae\, International Journal of Foundations
  of Computer Science\, Natural Computing\, DNA Computing\, etc.). Matteo j
 oined CoSBi in January 2006.\n
LOCATION:Small public lecture room\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomso
 n Avenue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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