emergent behaviour

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

The glossary is being gradually proof checked, but currently has many typos and misspellings.

An emergent behaviour is one that arises in a system as whole, but is not immedaitely obvious from the constituent parts. Often an AI system has many agents or rules, each of which is simple, but where the overall system behaves in ways that are not at all obvious. Emergent behaviours often occur in swarm computing and can be used in CGI to model flocks of birds or herds of animals.

Used in Chap. 16: pages 245, 246, 248; Chap. 19: page 295