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On Engineering and Emergence

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems 2007-05-23 v1 Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases

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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@article{arxiv.nlin/0601002,
  title  = {On Engineering and Emergence},
  author = {Jochen Fromm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0601002},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages, 10 figures