Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems

by Ang Yang (Editor), Yin Shan (Editor)

Overview

As the world currently subsists as a platform for exchange among complex, intelligent systems that are constantly adapting and evolving to suit the surrounding physical, sociological, emotional, and sensory environment, understanding the theory and emergence of complex adaptive systems is of paramount importance. Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems 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, sensory information processing, as well as the conceptual and methodological issues and approaches to intelligent adaptive systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599047171
Publisher:	IGI Global
Publication date:	03/31/2008
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.20(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword     vi
Preface     viii
General Theories
From Reductive to Robust: Seeking the Core of Complex Adaptive Systems Theory   Steven E. Wallis     1
Method of Systems Potential as "Top-Bottom" Technique of the Complex Adaptive Systems Modelling   Grigorii S. Pushnoi   Gordon L. Bonser     26
Important Concepts
Modularity and Complex Adaptive Systems   David Conforth   David G. Green     75
Concept and Definition of Complexity   Russell K. Standish     105
Computing Perspectives
Emergence of Creativity: A Simulation Approach   Hrafn Thorri Thorisson     126
Solving the Sensory Information Bottleneck to Central Processing in Adaptive Systems   Thomy Nilsson     159
Complexity, Information, and Robustness: The Role of Information "Barriers" in Boolean Networks   Kurt A. Richardson     187
Emergent Specialization in Biologically Inspired Collective Behavior Systems   G. S. Nitschke   M. C. Schut   A. E. Eiben     215
Social Science Perspectives
Emergence in Agent-Based Computational Social Science: Conceptual, Formal, and Diagrammatic Analysis   Jean Louis Dessalles   Jacques Ferber   Denis Phan     255
Ontological Reflections on Peace andWar   Hayward R. Alker     300
The Allocation of Complexity in Economic Systems   Jason Potts   Kate Morrison   Joseph Clark     331
About the Contributors     351
Index     358