Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software /

Emergence is what happens when an interconnected system of relatively simple elements self-organizes to form more intelligent, more adaptive higher-level behavior. It's a bottom-up model rather than being engineered by a general or a master planner, emergence begins at the ground level. Systems...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Johnson, Steven, 1968-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Scribner, [2001]
Subjects:	Self-organizing systems. Swarm intelligence. Systems engineering. Systèmes auto-organisés. Intelligence collective. Ingénierie des systèmes. Zelforganiserende systemen. Software. Selbstorganisation.
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