Signals and boundaries : building blocks for complex adaptive systems /
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| Author / Creator: | Holland, John H. (John Henry), 1929- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012. |
| Description: | viii, 308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8961791 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-301) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262017831 0262017830 |
