Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems - Brossura

Holland, John H

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ISBN 10: 0262525933 ISBN 13: 9780262525930

Casa editrice: MIT Press, 2014

Riassunto

An overarching framework for comparing and steering complex adaptive systems is developed through understanding the mechanisms that generate their intricate signal/boundary hierarchies.

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Recensione:

What is common to cells, rainforests, markets, and language? John Holland demonstrates that each of these complex systems can be analyzed by studying the signals between their evolving parts, the changing boundaries that define these parts, and the coevolution of the signals and the boundaries. The result is a deeper understanding of all complex systems as each application enlightens the others. A remarkable achievement.
Robert Axelrod, author of The Evolution of Cooperation

Complex adaptive systems assume definition as agents arise and organize themselves into specialized units with boundaries and signals that sustain those boundaries, becoming agents themselves in ever-more-complex hierarchies. In his characteristic engaging style, John Holland elucidates the universal organizational principles that characterize hierarchical pattern formation across the spectrum of science.

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Simon Levin, Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University

L'autore:

John H. Holland is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan; he is also Trustee and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity and other books.

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• Editore: MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0262525933
• ISBN 13: 9780262525930
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 316