On Engineering and Emergence

2006/01/03 by Jochen Fromm, Fromm, Jochen
Computer Science · Engineering · #Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO) #Cellular Automata and Applications #Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG) #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms #FOS: Physical sciences #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nlin/0601002

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Abstract

The engineering and design of self-organizing systems with emergent properties is a long-standing problem in the field of complex and distributed systems, for example in the engineering of self-organizing Multi-Agent Systems. The problem of combining engineering with emergence - to find a simple rule for a complex pattern - equals the problem of science in general. Therefore the answers are similar, and the scientific method is the general solution to the problem of engineering complex systems.

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