Fundamental Generation Systems : Computer Science and Artificial Consciousness, the Informational Field of Generation of the Universe, the Sixth Sense of Living Beings / Alain Cardon and Abdelkhalak El Hami.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cardon, Alain, 1946- author.

El Hami, Abdelkhalak, author.

Contributor:

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Series:

Science, society and new technologies series. Digital sciences set ; v. 4.

Science, society and new technolgies series. Digit sciences set ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conscious automata.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : ISTE Ltd ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Systems and their Designs

1.1. System modeling

1.1.1. Traditional systems

1.1.2. Complex systems

1.1.3. Systems of systems

1.2. Autonomous systems

1.3. Multi-agent systems

1.4. Organizations and systems

1.5. The problem of modeling an autonomous system

1.6. Agents and multi-agent systems

1.6.1. The weak notion of an agent

1.6.2. The strong notion of an agent

1.6.3. Cognitive agents and reactive agents

1.6.4. Multi-agent systems

1.6.5. MAS with reactive agents

1.6.6. MAS with cognitive agents

Chapter 2. Reliability of Autonomous Systems

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Dependability of a system

2.2.1. General concepts

2.2.2. Failure and repair rates

2.2.3. Average estimators

2.2.4. Some methodological tools

2.3. Reliability diagram

2.3.1. Series system

2.3.2. Parallel system

2.3.3. Mixed system

2.3.4. More complex systems

2.3.5. Fault tree

2.4. Reliability networks

2.4.1. Partial graph associated with a subset of components

2.4.2. Reliability network and structure function

2.4.3. Properties of reliability networks

2.4.4. Length and width of a reliability network

2.4.5. Equivalence between structure function and reliability network

2.4.6. Construction and simplification of reliability networks

Chapter 3. Artificial Intelligence, Communication Systems and Artificial Consciousness

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Evolution of computer science

3.3. Evolution of artificial intelligence

3.4. Radical evolution of computing and AI towards fully communicating systems

3.5. The computer representation of an artificial consciousness

Chapter 4. The Informational Substrate of the Universe and the Organizational Law

4.1. Introduction

4.2. The fundamental principles of the informational model of generation of the Universe

4.2.1. First fundamental concept: the foundation of the Universe by a generative information system

4.2.2. Second fundamental concept: informational character of the Universe with its substrate

4.2.3. Third fundamental concept: the organizational law of generation of the Universe

4.2.4. Fourth fundamental concept: the informational energy of the substrate of the Universe

4.3. The notion of generating information in the Universe

4.3.1. The information field of a component

4.3.2. The informational activity component and its information envelope

4.3.3. Fifth fundamental concept: self-control in the organization of the Universe

4.3.4. Generative information

4.3.5. Organizational tendency of the Universe and informational envelopes

Chapter 5. The Informational Interpretation of Living Things

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Origin of living things with bifurcation of the organizational law

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

5.2.1. Sixth fundamental concept: the production of living things on Earth

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Cardon, Alain Fundamental Generation Systems

ISBN:

9781394225798

1394225792

9781394225811

1394225814

Publisher Number:

40031940208

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