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Title

Intelligent complex adaptive systems / Ang Yang, Yin Shan [editors].

Publication

Hershey : IGI Pub., [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Yang, Ang.
• Shan, Yin.

Description

xv, 364 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

"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 as the conceptual and methodological issues and approaches to intelligent adaptive systems"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• 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

Note

• Companion volume to: Applications of complex adaptive systems.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. I. From Reductive to Robust: Seeking the Core of Complex Adaptive Systems Theory / Steven E. Wallis -- Ch. II. Method of Systems Potential as "Top-Bottom" Technique of the Complex Adaptive Systems Modelling / Grigorii S. Pushnoi and Gordon L. Bonser -- Ch. III. Modularity and Complex Adaptive Systems / David Conforth and David G. Green -- Ch. IV. Concept and Definition of Complexity / Russell K. Standish -- Ch. V. Emergence of Creativity: A Simulation Approach / Hrafn Thorri Thorisson -- Ch. VI. Solving the Sensory Information Bottleneck to Central Processing in Adaptive Systems / Thorny Nilsson -- Ch. VII. Complexity, Information, and Robustness: The Role of Information "Barriers" in Boolean Networks / Kurt A. Richardson -- Ch. VIII. Emergent Specialization in Biologically Inspired Collective Behavior Systems / G. S. Nitschke, M. C. Schut and A. E. Eiben -- Ch. IX. Emergence in Agent-Based Computational Social Science: Conceptual, Formal, and Diagrammatic Analysis / Jean Louis Dessalles, Jacques Ferber and Denis Phan -- Ch. X. Ontological Reflections on Peace and War / Hayward R. Alker -- Ch. XI. The Allocation of Complexity in Economic Systems / Jason Potts, Kate Morrison and Joseph Clark.

ISBN

• 9781599047171 (hardcover)
• 1599047179 (hardcover)
• 9781599047195 (ebook)
• 1599047195 (ebook)

LCCN

• 2007032059
• 40015332362

OCLC

• ocn163604688
• 163604688
• SCSB-5401092

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries