Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems

Designed for use by scholars, researchers and practitioners, this book provides fundamental information on the foundation, history and theory of intelligent adaptive systems in such fields as social systems, biologically-inspired artificial social systems, and sensory information processing. Here practitioners and academics join forces to provide general theories on core functions and modeling, and important concepts such as modularity in complex adaptive systems and the concept and definition of complexity. They also provide insights on the simulation of creativity, the bottleneck of sensory information, the role of information "barriers" in Boolean networks, and emergent specialization in biologically-inspired collective behavior systems. Social scientists address such topics as analysis (conceptual, formal and diagrammatic), ontological reflections on peace and war, and the allocation of complexity in economic systems. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)