Applications of complex adaptive systems

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Yang, Ang., Shan, Yin.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Functionalism (Social sciences); System analysis.; Biocomplexity > Simulation methods.; Social systems > Simulation methods.; Economics > Methodology.; Organizational sociology > Simulation methods.; Modularity (Engineering); Modularity (Psychology); Self-organizaing systems.; Adaptive control systems.
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"This book provides an estimable global view of the most up-to-date research on the strategies, applications, practice, and implications of complex adaptive systems, to better understand the various critical systems that surround human life. Researchers will find this book an indispensable stat...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Agent strategies in economy market / Raymond Chiong, Lubo Jankovic
• 2. Dynamic contexts and concepts as a set of state variations under emerging functions : a logical model for evolving ontologies and autopoietic multi-agent systems / Stefano De Luca, Walter Quattrociocchi
• 3. Cellular automata / Terry Bossomaier
• 4. Adaptive neurodynamics / Mario Negrello, Martin Huelse, Frank Pasemann
• 5. Innovation diffusion among heterogeneous agents : exploring complexity with agent-based modelling (ABM) / Nasmun N. Ratna, Anne Dray, Pascal Perez, R. Quentin Grafton, Tom Kompas
• 6. Unique applications of multi-agent models in uncovering language learning processes / Teresa Satterfield
• 7. The intelligence of rumours : a cross-methodological approach to social belief dynamics / Paolo Turrini, Mario Paolucci, Rosaria Conte
• 8. Strategic management, evolutionary economics, and complex adaptive systems / Carl Henning Reschke, Sascha Kraus
• 9. Building complex adaptive systems : on engineering self-organizaing multi-agent systems / Jan Sudeikati, Wolfgang Renz
• 10. FinSim : a framework for modeling financial system interdependencies / Alexander Outkin, Silvio Flaim, Andy Seirp, Julia Gavrilov
• 11. Complex adaptive systems theory and military transformation / Kimberly Holloman
• 12. Insights into the impact of social networks on evolutionary games / Katia Sycara, Paul Scherri, Anton Chechetka.