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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0019
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0020
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262305891
An overarching framework for comparing and steering complex adaptive systems is developed through understanding the mechanisms that generate their intricate signal/boundary hierarchies. 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. Holland lays out a path for developing the framework that emphasizes agents, niches, theory, and mathematical models. He discusses, among other topics, theory construction; signal-processing agents; networks as representations of signal/boundary interaction; adaptation; recombination and reproduction; the use of tagged urn models (adapted from elementary probability theory) to represent boundary hierarchies; finitely generated systems as a way to tie the models examined into a single framework; the framework itself, illustrated by a simple finitely generated version of the development of a multi-celled organism; and Markov processes.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262305891
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 13 July 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9412.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262305891