Intelligent complex adaptive systems
By: Ang Yang, Yin Shan [editors].
Contributors: Yang, Ang.; Shan, Yin.
Publisher: IGI Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hershey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781599047171; 9781599047195
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
Description: "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.
Notes: Companion volume to: Applications of complex adaptive systems.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From reductive to robust : seeking the core of complex adaptive systems theory / Steven E. Wallis; title: Method of systems potential as "top-bottom" technique of the complex adaptive systems modelling / Girgorii S. Pushnoi, Gordon L. Bonser; title: Modularity and coomplex adaptive system / David Cornforth, David G. Green; title: Concept and definition of complexity / Russell K. Standish; title: Emergence of creativity : a simulation approach / Hrafn Thorri Thorisson; title: Solving the sensory information bottleneck to central processing in adaptive systems / Thomy Nilsson; title: Complexity, infomation, and robustness : the role of information "barriers" in boolean networks / Kurt A. Richardson; title: Emergent specialization in biologically inspired collective behavior systems / G.S. Nitschke, M.C Schut, A.E. Elben; title: Emergence in agent-based computational social science : conceptual, formal, and diagrammatic analysis / Jean Louis Dessalles, Jacques Ferber, Denis Phan.; title: Ontological reflections on peace and war / Hayward R. Alker; title: The allocation of complexity in economic systems / Jason Potts, Kate Morrison, Joseph Clark.