chen, C-C;
nagl, S;
clack, CD;
(2009)
A formalism for multi-level emergent behaviours in designed component-based systems and agent-based simulations.
Understanding Complex Systems
, 44
pp. 101-114.
10.1007/978-3-642-02199-2_4.
Abstract
There currently exists no means of specifying or analysing specific emergent behaviours in designed multi-component systems. For this reason, important questions about the lower level mechanisms giving rise to emergent behaviours cannot be resolved. We provide a compositional definition of behaviours in terms of complex events, which can be defined at multiple levels of abstraction and related hierarchically. Based on existing theories of emergence, we also distinguish complex events that constitute emergent behaviours and those that do not. We describe how such emergent behaviours can be analysed by decomposition in terms of their underlying mechanisms.
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