Soap bubbles and the dynamical behavior of multi-agent systems

摘要

In this paper, we exploit a new regime of analytical methods - soap froth dynamics to investigate the macroscopic behavior of multi-agent systems. Treating each agent as a soap bubble in a single layer two-dimensional froth, we can study the cooperating and competing dynamics among multi-agents by considering the mechanism of topological rearrangement of the edges of soap froth. This is similar to a simple version of two-fold quantum universe. Based on the topological morphs of cellular structures, we can elucidate the stability, scalability and birthdeath processes of multi-agent systems. In addition, a selection rule of survivor bubbles can be derived to determine the evolution of multi-agent systems.