Bistable reactivity: A coupled oscillator circuit model of an agent organization

摘要

A coupled oscillator approach to game theory has been designed to resolve two of its major problems: The arbitrariness of valuing cooperation greater than competition in determining social welfare; and the lack of interdependent uncertainty. The bistable approach means that agents in relationships are more likely to be found in reactive states that correspond to their observation-action or energy-time levels. In our view, games are initialized, evolved to a state that solves a target problem, and then measured, consequently creating a measurement problem. In past research, we have addressed the measurement problem, leading to the development of metrics that have been applied to organizations in the field (we briefly illustrate an application to military Medical Department Research Centers). In this paper, we focus on modeling control in bistable close and market relationships to produce evolvable systems. One of our goals is to produce a model that can be used to study the information flows associated with congestion. We speculate that as congestion increases, it can be characterized by standard deviations of decreasing frequency and increasing time.