Achieving an Information System's Capability through C2

Synchronization In Collectives

(Kalloniatis, 2010) studies a system’s ability to achieve self-synchronization, focusing on the mathematics underlying this ability. This is a key concept to agility observed in animal collectives and collective intelligence and this work gives a mathematical framework in which to discuss synchronization behaviour phenomena crucial to collectives. It is interesting to note that even with a strictly mathematical view, abstracted away from the human factors in command, the author observes, through simulations, the existence of an intermediate step, between incoherence and synchronization, in those cases the networks showed periodic behaviours. The definition of collectives taken are similar to those in (Moffat, 2011); collectives are incoherent systems that on some occasions synchronize, hence this synchronization is crucial to achieving command by intent (Moffat, 2011) which we will go into further subsequently.