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Using the spontaneously synchronized clapping in a concert hall as a special case, we build a nonlinear emergent model to characterize the collective behaviors of the complex multi-agent systems. Based on this model, we develop an experimental platform for emergent computation, which only depends on the local interaction and reveals the uncertainty and diversity of emergent behaviors. By analyzing the data in the procedure of many hands clapping, we find that there exists an obvious critical region generated in the procedure from disorder to synchronization. Moreover, we propose a fundamental synchronous criterion as follows: If the coupling coefficients c 1 and c 2 satisfy the condition 0.02⩽c 2⩽0.965c 1+0.018, then the clapping can realize synchronization.
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Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB310800), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60375016, 60496323 and 60675032)
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Li, D., Liu, K., Sun, Y. et al. Emergent computation: Virtual reality from disordered clapping to ordered clapping. Sci. China Ser. F-Inf. Sci. 51, 449–459 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-008-0046-9
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