Hierarchical Relationships and Spatial Emergence amongst Multi-Species Animats

K.A. Hawick and C.J. Scogings (New Zealand)




Predator-Prey animats in a spatial model have been found to form battlefronts and other geometrical arrangements that allow the two species to coexist in a dynamic equilibrium. We explore the consequences of adding a third super-predatorial species and the hierarchical relationships and spatial patterns that emerge. We compare our micro scopic model with the predictions of a hierarchical species realisation of the predator-prey partial differential equation model based on the Lotka-Volterra equations. multi-species; predator-prey; animat; spatial emergence; Lotka-Volterra.

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