Intelligent complex adaptive systems

• Other Authors: Yang, Ang., Shan, Yin.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey PA : IGI Pub., 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.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Methodology.; Electronic books.
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"This book explores the foundation, history, and theory of intelligent adaptive systems, providing a fundamental resource on topics such as the emergence of intelligent adaptive systems in social sciences, biologically inspired artificial social systems, sensory information processing, as well...

Table of Contents:

• From reductive to robust : seeking the core of complex adaptive systems theory / S.E. Wallis
• Method of systems potential as "top-bottom" technique of the complex adaptive systems modelling / G.S. Pushnoi, G.L. Bonser
• Modularity and complex adaptive system / D. Cornforth, D.G. Green
• Concept and definition of complexity / R. Standish
• Emergence of creativity : a simulation approach / H.T. Thorisson
• Solving the sensory information bottleneck to central processing in adaptive systems / T. Nilsson
• Complexity, information, and robustness : the role of information "barriers" in boolean networks / K.A. Richardson
• Emergent specialization in biologically inspired collective behavior systems / G.S. Nitschke, M.C Schut, A.E. Elben
• Emergence in agent based computational social science : conceptual, formal, and diagrammatic analysis / J.L. Dessalles, J. Ferber, D. Phan.
• Ontological reflections on peace and war / H. Alker
• The allocation of complexity in economic systems / J. Potts, K. Morrison, J. Clark.