Emergence of robust, stable structures via computation within natural networks

现代社会面临的一个日益严峻的挑战是庞大基础设施的复杂性。意外的，有时甚至是灾难性的行为往往出现在大型系统的元素之间的相互作用中。因此，互联网、国际金融市场和电网等高度复杂的系统极易受到连锁故障、低效率和临界敏感性等代价高昂的问题的影响。高科技产业，如生物技术和信息网络，也面临着协调成群的相互作用的代理人的问题。该项目将通过确定和调整来自自然的解决办法，为解决这些问题作出贡献。

An ever-increasing challenge for modern society is the sheer complexity of vast infrastructures. Unexpected, and sometimes catastrophic, behaviour often emerges from interactions between elements of large systems. As a result, highly complex systems such as the Internet, international finance markets, and power grids are highly susceptible to costly problems such as cascading failures, inefficiency, and critical sensitivity. High-tech industries, such as biotechnology and information networking, also face problems in coordinating swarms of interacting agents. This project will contribute to solving such problems by identifying and adapting solutions from nature.