Intelligent 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-organizing systems.; Adaptive control systems.
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This book explores the foundation, history, and theory of intelligent adaptive systems, providing scholars, researchers, and practitioners with a fundamental resource on topics such as the emergence of intelligent adaptive systems in social sciences, biologically inspired artificial social systems,...

Table of Contents:

• I. From reductive to robust / Steven Wallis
• II. Method of systems potential as "top-bottom" technique of the complex adaptive systems modelling / Gregor S. Pushnoi, Gordon L. Bonser
• III. Modularity and complex adaptive systems / David Cornforth, David Green
• IV. Concept and definition of complexity / Russell Standish
• V. Emergence of creativity / Hrafn Thórisson
• VI. Solving the sensory information bottleneck to central processing in adaptive systems / Thomy Nilsson
• VII. Complexity, information, and robustness / Kurt Richardson
• VIII. Emergent specialization in biologically inspired collective behavior systems / G. Nitschke, M. Schut, A. Eiben
• IX. Emergence in agent-based computational social science / Jean Dessalles, Jacques Ferber, Denis Phan
• X. Ontological reflections on peace and war / Hayward Alker
• XI. The allocation of complexity in economic systems / Jason Potts, Kate Morrison, Joseph Clark.