Complex Adaptive Systems

kaustubh — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:57:22 -0400

A growing number of individuals, research groups and academics are looking at Complex Adaptive System concept. Till date several researchers are examining how an understanding of Complex Adaptive System theory can be applied to business.

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Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

jmvidal — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:11:09 -0500

There is a new journal called the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems which covers biologically-inspired multiagent systems as well as those that exhibit emergent behavior. By “emergent” I assume they mean a complex behavior that arises, usually unexpectedly, from simple local interactions. The following is a quote from their introduction:

“Many current systems, such as the World Wide Web, Peer-2-Peer systems, pervasive computing systems, and ad hoc wireless and sensor networks, have the characteristic of being decentralized and composed of a large number of autonomous entities. These systems are also typically imbedded in and interact with highly dynamic environments where content, network topology, and workload are continuously changing. The capability of systems to exhibit autonomous and self-adaptive behavior by having their components autonomously configure their working parameters, self-organize their interaction patterns, and self-adapt them to changing environmental conditions is thus a necessary feature. In fact, the complexity of these systems and their decentralization make any form of centralized control of their behavior impossible or economically impractical. The characteristics just-sketched are similar to those found in many complex natural and social systems, whether physical or biological. Indeed, many natural and social systems have the characteristic of exhibiting emergent coherent global behaviors without any centralized control via contextual local interactions of autonomous components that dynamically self-organize and self-adapt to changing environmental conditions. Accordingly, there is currently an increasing appreciation that modern applications and systems can gain in robustness and simplicity if they are developed by following the principles of self-organization which one finds in nature and in society.”

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