Change Escalation Processes and Complex Adaptive Systems: From Incremental Reconfigurations to Discontinuous Restructuring

Change Escalation Processes and Complex Adaptive Systems: From Incremental Reconfigurations to Discontinuous Restructuring

This study examines when ‘incremental’ change is likely to trigger ‘discontinuous’ change, using the lens of complex adaptive systems theory. Going beyond the simulations and case studies through which complex adaptive systems have been approached so far, we study the relationship between incremental organizational reconfigurations and discontinuous organizational restructurings using a large-s...

Parsing as Incremental Restructuring

A prevalent trend in modeling human sentence processing has been to account for both initial attachment preferences and reanalysis behaviors with minimal extensions to a presumed set of initial parsing operations. Here, an entirely different formulation of the initial attachment and revision processes is suggested. Rather than assuming that all parsing is (as much as possible) initial attachmen...

Adaptive Restructuring of Object-oriented Software Systems

In this paper we approach the problem of adaptive refactoring, the process of adapting the class structure of a software system when new application classes are added. We have previously introduced an adaptive clustering method that deals with the evolving structure of any object oriented application. The aim of this paper is to extend the evaluation of the proposed method on the open source ca...

Incremental design of adaptive systems

Current research initiatives like Organic Computing (OC) and Intelligent Environments (IEs) aim at building technology-driven embedded systems that are aware of the conditions in the real world, derive plans of how to act, and proactively manipulate their environment to serve the user. As a result, novel systems according to these initiatives are characterised by a high degree of adaptivity, us...

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