Tentative guidelines for the implementation of meta-structural and network software models of collective behaviours

Abstract

We present some practical guidelines for software implementations of the meta-structure project introduced in previous contributions. The purpose of the meta-structure project is to implement models not only to detect, but also to induce, change and maintain properties acquired by collective behaviours. We consider the simplified case given by simulated collective behaviours where all the microscopic spatial information (x, y, z) for each interacting agent per instant are available ex-post in a suitable file. In particular, we introduce guidelines to identify suitable mesoscopic variables (clusters) and meta-structural properties suitable for representing coherence of collective behaviours to be also used to induce coherence in non-coherent Brownian behaviours. Furthermore, on the basis of previous contributions which studied in real flocks properties related to topological distances as topological ranges of interaction and scale invariance, here we introduce some comments and proposals to be further studied and implemented for network models of collective behaviours. Keywords: Cluster, Coherence, Ergodicity, Mesoscopic, Meta-Structure, Network, Threshold.