Autonomous Behaviors

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Individual-based models describe the life cycle of individual (discrete) organisms. The organisms can differ and display autonomous behavior (DeAngelis and Mooij 2005 Grimm and Railsback 2005). The entities of an IBM — individuals, habitat units, and the abiotic environment — are characterized by sets of state variables, for example, sex, age, body mass, location (individuals) vegetation cover, soil moisture, food level (habitat units) or temperature, rainfall, and disturbance rate (environment). 

As the concentration of the catalyst is increased at a fixed feed-rate of formaldehyde in a continuously stirred tank-reactor, the increase in the absolute rate of the Cannizzaro reaction causes neutralization of calcium hydroxide, and the pH of the reaction drops from 12 to 10.5 in the range of 0 to 100 conversion. This autonomic behavior may be one reason... 

New and improved sensor and communication technologies create opportunities for designing embedded and mobile systems that are able to interact with their environment, and exhibit smart and autonomous behavior. Furthermore, collaboration between mobile entities can also be envisaged for improving their functionality as well as performance. Example applications include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and smart cars, where for instance, UAVs can be used for environmental surveillance and control, and smart vehicles coordinating their behaviors can be used to increase traffic throughput and improve mobility without the need of using more space for the respective traffic infrastructures. 

A simulation based on ABS (Agent-Based Simulation) helps to better understand real-world systems, in which individual entities with their autonomous behavior are presented or modeled. ABS approach is characterized by (Siebers et ah, 2010) approach from bottom to top, focus on modeling a behavior of entities and interactions between them, having by entities ability to make decisions and others factors. 

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