Signals and boundaries: building blocks for complex adaptive systems

by Holland, John H., (John Henry)

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Title Statements

Full title :Signals and boundaries : building blocks for complex adaptive systems / John H. Holland.

Summary

Complex adaptive systems (CAS)--including ecosystems, governments, biological cells, and markets--are characterized by intricate hierarchical arrangements of boundaries and signals. In ecosystems, for example, niches act as semi-permeable boundaries, and smells and visual patterns serve as signals; governments have departmental hierarchies with memoranda acting as signals; and so it is with other CAS. Despite a wealth of data and descriptions concerning different CAS, there remain many unanswered questions about "steering" these systems. In Signals and boundaries, John Holland argues that understanding the origin of the intricate signal/border hierarchies of these systems is the key to answering such questions. He develops an overarching framework for comparing and steering CAS through the mechanisms that generate their signal/boundary hierarchies, and lays out a path for developing the framework that emphasizes agents, niches, theory, and mathematical models.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 308 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262017831, 0262017830, 9780262525930, 0262525933, 9780262305891, 0262305895
oclc:ocn775269168
LC Classification:TJ217
Dewey Decimal:003

Roles of signals and boundaries -- Theory and models: general principles -- Agents and signal processing -- Networks and flows -- Adaptation -- Recombination and reproduction -- Urn models of boundaries -- Boundary hierarchies -- The evolution of niches, a first look -- Language: grammars and niches -- Grammars as finitely generated systems -- An overarching signal/boundary framework -- A dynamic generated system model of ontogeny -- A complete dynamic generated system for signal/boundary studies -- Mathematical models of generated structures -- A short version of the whole.

Subjects

Adaptation (Biologie) -- Modèles mathém… Adaptation (Biology) -- Mathematical mo… Adaptive control systems Documents d'information Informational works Signals and signaling -- Mathematical m… Signaux et signalisation -- Modèles mat… Systèmes adaptatifs Systèmes complexes