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Complex Adaptive Systems Overview
In this video we give an overview of complex adaptive systems, we will firstly define what we mean they this term, before briefly covering the main topics in this area...
Critical Slowing Down
Critical slowing down is the theory that in cases where a system is close to a critical tipping point the recovery rate should decrease. It occurs because a system’s internal stabilizing forces...
Complex Adaptive Systems
Complex Adaptive Systems A complex adaptive system is a special class of complex system that has the capacity for adaptation. Like all complex systems, they consist of many elements, what are...
Adaptive Systems
Adaptive Systems We can define adaptation as the capacity for a system to change its state in response to some change within its environment. An adaptive system then is a system that can change...
Regulatory Systems
Regulatory Systems Within systems theory, a control system or regulatory system is a specialized subsystem that is designed to monitor and regulate the behavior and operation of the broader...
Schemata
Schemata A schema is a conceptual pattern or structure that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. The term derives from psychology but is used within complex...
Simple Rules
Simple Rules One of the key premises of complex systems theory is that global coordination and complex behavior can emerge out of very simple rules governing the interaction between agents on the...
Cellular Automaton
Cellular Automaton Cellular automata are algorithmic models that use computation to iterate on very simple rules. In so doing, these very simple rules can create complex emergent phenomena...
Feedback & Externalities
Feedback & Externalities A feedback loop defines a relationship of interdependency between two or more components where the change in state of one element affects that of another, with this...
Cooperation & Competition
Cooperation & Competition A core premise of complexity theory is that global patterns in complex systems emerge out of the synchronization between the states of elements on the local level....
Evolution
Evolution Evolution is a process of adaptation that operates on the macro-level of a system. Adaptation is the capacity to generate a response to some change within the environment. Evolution is...
Robustness & Resilience
Robustness & Resilience Resilience is the capacity of a system to maintain functionality in the face of some alteration within the system’s environment.All systems exist within an...
Self-Organization Far-From-Equilibrium
Self-Organization Far-From-Equilibrium Far-from-equilibrium self-organization is a hypothesis that describes the process of self-organization as taking place at a critical phase transition space...
Self-Organization & Thermodynamics
Self-Organization & Thermodynamics Self-organization can be defined as the spontaneous creation of a globally coherent pattern out of local interactions. As such self-organization explores a...
Fitness Landscapes
Fitness Landscapes A fitness landscape - also called an adaptive landscape - is a model that comes from biology where it is used to describe the “fitness” of a creature, or more...