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Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems

Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems

Holland, John H.

Paperback

General ComputersGeneral Science

ISBN10: 0262525933
ISBN13: 9780262525930
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jan 10 2014
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.67
Language: English
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.

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