Signals and boundaries building blocks for complex adaptive systems

• Main Author: Holland, John H. 1929-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
• Subjects: Adaptive control systems.; Adaptation (Biology) > Mathematical models.; Signals and signaling > Mathematical models.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780262305891
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj.

Table of Contents:

• 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.