Welcome

I am a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. I graduated from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and did my PhD at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College London, at the Intelligent Systems and Networks group, supervised by Philippe De Wilde.

Work in Brief

In most complex systems there is a mechanism that maps simple local rules to the macroscopic behaviour of these systems. We use agent-based modelling and simulation to investigate the following questions that arise from this fact:

• - Given the set of local interactions in a complex system (e.g. a society, an economy, an ecology) can we predict the large-scale patterns that emerge?
• - Given the large-scale patterns can we find the local interactions that lead to them?
• - Can we define local interactions that lead to the optimal large-scale patterns?

(c) 2012 Maria Chli