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In recent years computational abilities emerging from systems in nature, especially systems studied in domains such as biology and physics, have attracted much attention from researchers in various fields. In this paper we propose a new computational model based on the interaction of charged particles, and we investigate emergent collective computational abilities of the system. In particle systems, the local motion of particles at the micro level and the state of the system as a whole on the macro level are integrated in a natural way. The local movement of particles is determined by the resultant forces acting on them, and the global system state is described by an energy function. A particle system was constructed to solve Traveling Salesman Problems (TSPs). In comparison with neural networks, this model is able to more effectively make use of the two-dimensional information of city distributions. Finally, to demonstrate the feasibility of our model, we have implemented a simulation of an interacting particle system to solve TSPs on a SUN workstation in C language. The preliminary experimental results show that there are very strong emergent collective computational abilities in interacting particle systems.
This project is supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China.
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Zhang, Z., Bai, S., Li, G. (1995). Emergent collective computational abilities in interacting particle systems. In: Yao, X. (eds) Progress in Evolutionary Computation. EvoWorkshops EvoWorkshops 1993 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 956. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60154-6_48
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