The university library as a complex adaptive system (CAS)

The Economy as a Complex Adaptive System

This chapter argues that the economic system is best perceived as a complex adaptive system, and as such, the traditional analytical methods of economics are not optimal for its study. Agent-based computational economics (ACE) studies the economic system from the bottom up and recognizes interaction between autonomous agents as the central mechanism in generating the self-organizing features of...

Computability and Evolutionary Complexity: Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems (cas)*

Few will argue that the epi-phenomena of biological systems and socio-economic systems are anything but complex. The purpose of this Feature is to examine critically and contribute to the burgeoning multi-disciplinary literature on markets as complex adaptive systems (CAS). The new sciences of complexity, the principles of self-organisation and emergence along with the methods of evolutionary c...

Language as a Complex Adaptive System

The paper surveys recent work on modeling the origins of communication systems in groups of autonomous distributed agents. It is shown that five principles gleaned from biology are crucial: reinforcement learning, selforganisation, selectionism, co-evolution through structural coupling, and level formation. Official reference: Steels, L. (2000) Language as a complex adaptive system. Lecture Not...

Innovation as a complex adaptive system

Metathesis: Language as a Complex Adaptive System

It is now well understood that language use shapes the acoustic delivery of phonological patterns and, in particular, phonological change. One example of this type of language change-under-use is metathesis, the reversal of the expected linear ordering of sounds. The gradual transformation of chipotle to chipolte, a Spanish import, is an example of metathetic change in American English. The Gen...