collective behaviour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcollectiveandbehaviour
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collective
adjective[before noun]
uk/kəˈlek.tɪv/us/kəˈlek.tɪv/
of or shared by every member of a group ...
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behaviour
noun
uk/bɪˈheɪ.vjər/us/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/
the way that ...
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Finally, fairness axioms are required to guarantee a correctcollectivebehaviour.
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Thecollectivebehaviourhelps the swarm to achieve the task much more efficiently and quickly, minimising energy expenditure.
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This is because they do not translate our additional logical axioms, which are needed to guarantee a correctcollectivebehaviour.
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While this impact was probably neither premeditated nor openly discussed nor even noted by contemporaries, thecollectivebehaviourof the medical statisticians clearly had this effect.
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By studying thecollectivebehaviourof a large number of plasmids, it is thus hard to distinguish this kind of multistep mechanism from its single-step counterpart.
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This consent has two dimensions, one based on the social norm of reciprocity between taxpayers and the state, and the second on the perceived fairness of acollectivebehaviour.
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Different levels of abstraction are possible, but only in the task and component dimension; there is no explicit modelling of organisational constructs,collectivebehaviourand non-functional aspects.
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It focuses on system-level aspects (mainly on thecollectivebehaviourof agents), and does not attend to designing concerns related to the agent's internal cognitive map.
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They do not provide formal support for design decisions and do not allow designers to work with organisational settings andcollectivebehaviouras first-class design constructs.
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Holland presented a number of examples of such systems based on ant colonies, and thecollectivebehaviourin a beehive.
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Over time, thecollectivebehaviour, life cycle, and physiology of livestock have changed radically.
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Demand-side failures include preference-revelation problems and the illogics of voting andcollectivebehaviour.
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According to the definition of plasma, it is a quasi-neutral ensemble of particles which exhibits acollectivebehaviour.
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The meso-level is wherecollectivebehaviourpatterns are established, and where institutions operate.
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Thecollectivebehaviourof social insects remains a source of inspiration for researchers.
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