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COORDINATED FUNCTIONALITY. "Biologists recognize that integrated system complexity is a feature of living systems. That is, some biological systems consist of component parts that interact in a coordinated way so that the system as a whole exhibits a specific function." https://lnkd.in/dJG4bYH View in LinkedIn

FLEXIBLE EXECUTION. "It may happen that various robots have planned actions which lead to the same world state. There should be some reasoning capabilities to allow them to decide when and which robot will perform actions that lead to the desired state while avoiding redundant executions." https://lnkd.in/gtncEXm View in LinkedIn

TWO QUESTIONS. "There are two aspects to address explaining how such cooperation is sustained: how free-riders are prevented from free-riding on the benefits of cooperative tasks and, just as importantly, how those social benefits arise." http://adb.sagepub.com/content/23/5/315.short View in LinkedIn

BOT INITIATIVE. "One robot can opportunistically detect that it will be beneficial for the global performance if it could perform an action that was originally planned by another robot." https://lnkd.in/gtncEXm View in LinkedIn

DIVISION OF LABOR. "The complexity that we observe in nature can often be explained in terms of cooperative behavior. For example, the major transitions of evolution required the emergence of cooperation among the lower-level units of selection, which led to specialization through division-of-labor ultimately resulting in spontaneous order." https://lnkd.in/dETZCrk View in LinkedIn

LIMITED RESOURCES. "Each robot, while seeking to achieve its goal will have to compete for resources, to comply with other robots activities." https://lnkd.in/gtncEXm View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY BREEDS COOPERATION. "An incredible amount of cooperation is required for individual cells to come together and function as one, and with natural selection acting at the level of the individual cell, there will be significant evolutionary pressure to cheat the system and sabotage the success of the multicellular whole." https://lnkd.in/ddGmx4i View in LinkedIn

THE PLAN. "The generic architecture that we propose covers issues ranging from mission planning for several autonomous robots, to effective conflict free execution in a dynamic environment." https://lnkd.in/gtncEXm View in LinkedIn

BLACK BOX. "Although complex traits are omnipresent in life at different biological scales, with examples ranging from butterfly wing patterning to the assembly of multiprotein complexes, little is known about the stepwise trajectories through which complex traits arise in nature." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12416/full View in LinkedIn

STEPWISE ARGUMENT. "Thus, unicellular eukaryotes that, regardless of the exact dating, evolved more than a billion years after the prokaryotes, obviously attained a new level of complexity, and multicellular eukaryotic forms, appearing even later, by far exceeded the complexity of the unicellular ones. Arguably, the most compelling is the argument from the origin of cellular life itself: before the first cells emerged, there must have been some much simpler (pre)biological replicating entities." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201300037/full View in LinkedIn