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Singular perturbations and scaling
Scaling transformations involving a small parameter ({\em degenerate
scalings}) are frequently used for ordinary differential equations that model
(bio-) chemical reaction networks. They are motivated by quasi-steady state
(QSS) of certain chemical species, and ideally lead to slow-fast systems for
singular perturbation reductions, in the sense of Tikhonov and Fenichel. In the
present paper we discuss properties of such scaling transformations, with
regard to their applicability as well as to their determination.
Transformations of this type are admissible only when certain consistency
conditions are satisfied, and they lead to singular perturbation scenarios only
if additional conditions hold, including a further consistency condition on
initial values. Given these consistency conditions, two scenarios occur. The
first (which we call standard) is well known and corresponds to a classical
quasi-steady state (QSS) reduction. Here, scaling may actually be omitted
because there exists a singular perturbation reduction for the unscaled system,
with a coordinate subspace as critical manifold. For the second (nonstandard)
scenario scaling is crucial. Here one may obtain a singular perturbation
reduction with the slow manifold having dimension greater than expected from
the scaling. For parameter dependent systems we consider the problem to find
all possible scalings, and we show that requiring the consistency conditions
allows their determination. This lays the groundwork for algorithmic
approaches, to be taken up in future work. In the final section we consider
some applications. In particular we discuss relevant nonstandard reductions of
certain reaction-transport systems
Coordinate-independent singular perturbation reduction for systems with three time scales
On the basis of recent work by Cardin and Teixeira on ordinary differential
equations with more than two time scales, we devise a coordinate-independent
reduction for systems with three time scales; thus no a priori separation of
variables into fast, slow etc. is required. Moreover we consider arbitrary
parameter dependent systems and extend earlier work on Tikhonov-Fenichel
parameter values -- i.e. parameter values from which singularly perturbed
systems emanate upon small perturbations -- to the three time-scale setting. We
apply our results to two standard systems from biochemistry
Multi-agent decision-making dynamics inspired by honeybees
When choosing between candidate nest sites, a honeybee swarm reliably chooses
the most valuable site and even when faced with the choice between near-equal
value sites, it makes highly efficient decisions. Value-sensitive
decision-making is enabled by a distributed social effort among the honeybees,
and it leads to decision-making dynamics of the swarm that are remarkably
robust to perturbation and adaptive to change. To explore and generalize these
features to other networks, we design distributed multi-agent network dynamics
that exhibit a pitchfork bifurcation, ubiquitous in biological models of
decision-making. Using tools of nonlinear dynamics we show how the designed
agent-based dynamics recover the high performing value-sensitive
decision-making of the honeybees and rigorously connect investigation of
mechanisms of animal group decision-making to systematic, bio-inspired control
of multi-agent network systems. We further present a distributed adaptive
bifurcation control law and prove how it enhances the network decision-making
performance beyond that observed in swarms
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