The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a scientific endeavor has radically changed focus in the las decade from purely individual intelligent behavior to include the social phenomena emerging from interaction of individual intelligent agents. The argument we’ll present is twofold. First, we will review how the inherited notions of intelligence and rationality in scientific fields were...

study of collective actions is related to some of the most important issues in contemporary sociology such as cooperation, collective decision making, emergence of social norms etc. this paper in four steps presents a framework for studying collective actions. these steps are related to characteristics of collective actions (cooperation and common good), factors effecting the emergence of colle...

Statistical physics has proven to be a very fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the realm of traditional physics. The last years have witnessed the attempt by physicists to study collective phenomena emerging from the interactions of individuals as elementary units in social structures. Here we review the state of the art by focusing on a wide list of topics ranging from opinion, c...

Synchronization and entanglement constitute fundamental collective phenomena in multi-unit classical and quantum systems, respectively, both equally implying coordinated system states. Here, we present a direct link for a class of isolated quantum many-body systems, demonstrating that synchronization emerges as an intrinsic system feature. Intriguingly, quantum coherence and entanglement arise ...

Bottinelli, A. 2016. Modelling collective movement and transport network formation in living systems. Uppsala Dissertations in Mathematics 96. 56 pp. Uppsala: Department of Mathematics. ISBN 978-91-506-2599-8. The emergence of collective patterns from repeated local interactions between individuals is a common feature to most living systems, spanning a variety of scales from cells to animals an...

I nteractions mediated by photons are ubiquitous in physical systems. For instance, the van der Waals interaction between atoms in free space—variants of which play a fundamental role in many physical, chemical, and biological processes—is mediated by photons of the electromagnetic vacuum between the atoms. Interestingly, while this interaction is weak and decays with interatomic separation whe...