Dr Boyd hopes to move a bit in that direction by making the models of both individual behaviour and group structure more complex.
Lord Wigley, a co-sponsor of the amendment, said many serious offenders - such as stalkers and rapists - were able to get away with "ongoing, unacceptable" behaviour because courts only examined individual instances of their behaviour, and did not take into account the "cumulative impact" of long-term patterns of their behaviour on victims.
It may be that the predictive power of these technical patterns comes from the behaviour of individual investors.
The FSA has finished its inquiry into Shell the company, but it too may now scrutinise the behaviour of individual managers.
In that time two local youths have received individual anti-social behaviour orders.
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Because road systems are complex, and because the behaviour of individual drivers is largely unpredictable, the overall impact of a particular pricing scheme is anyone's guess.
It can also identify potential collisions, working around 18 minutes ahead of real time, and spot any unexpected behaviour by individual aircraft, highlighting potentially dangerous situations in the sky.
The individual may not realise their behaviour is unacceptable.
"We are extremely disappointed in the behaviour of this individual, which is in no way representative of the sport of tennis, " the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) said in a statement emailed to CNN.
If you leave your laptop unlocked and someone else starts typing, then using almost like a neuro-net analysis we can say that the behaviour of this individual is most like this person, therefore the trust level falls, therefore you're asked to log onto the network again.
They then subdivided these children into those with psychopathic traits and those without and asked, in each case, whether an individual's twin showed bad behaviour, psychopathy, or both.
He described their behaviour as "an individual, isolated act".
"As we sense in real time more and more about the individual, such as moods and behaviour, we need to provide near absolute guarantees that the information will not be subject to theft or attack, down to the silicon melting and still not giving up its data, " says Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker.
Behaviour that may be rational for individual actors can cause chaos if everyone copies it.
When asked about "inappropriate behaviour" by special advisers in attacks on individual journalists, Mr Gove rejected an "inappropriate" line of questioning.
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Mr O'Connor realised that, by marrying the two, he could identify individual web users and not only track, but also predict their behaviour making online advertising even more science than art.
Frame-by-frame analysis of the motion of individual soot particles then reveals how quickly gases within the fire are moving, and allows fire behaviour to be scrutinised in detail.
"Swimmers described these games as the 'Lonely Olympics' and the 'Individual Olympics', " the report said, adding that the lack of cohesion meant that poor behaviour went unchecked.
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