This paper explores the meaning and role of emerging insights from the sciences of complexity in the study of politics and public policy. Considerable attention is devoted to the relevance of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) to understanding important phenomena in politics and the realm of public policy. While traditional approaches to the study of these areas are not without merit, an understand...

Typical implementations of artificial intelligent agents suggest that actions should be chosen in order to maximise some reward function. This naturally complies the philosophy behind rational choice theory. Yet, this heuristic may not always provide long-term success to the considered agents. In this paper, we stress the need to consider the self-organised and frequency-dependent nature of the...

This paper proposes a connectionist mechanism to support adaptive real-time routing in computer networks. In particular, an Adaptive Self-Organizing Concurrent System (ASOCS) model is used as the basic network router. ASOCS are connectionist models which achieve learning and processing in a parallel and self-organizing fashion. By exploiting parallel processing the ASOCS network router addresse...

A system consisting of a doubly clamped beam with an attached body (slider) free to move along the has been studied recently by multiple research groups. Under harmonic base excitation, capacity passively adapt itself (by slowly changing slider position) yield either high or low vibrations. The central contributions this work are refinement developed model regard finite stiffness beam’s clampin...