Recreation as a Social-Ecological Complex Adaptive System

Language as a Complex Adaptive System

The paper surveys recent work on modeling the origins of communication systems in groups of autonomous distributed agents. It is shown that five principles gleaned from biology are crucial: reinforcement learning, selforganisation, selectionism, co-evolution through structural coupling, and level formation. Official reference: Steels, L. (2000) Language as a complex adaptive system. Lecture Not...

Innovation as a complex adaptive system

The Economy as a Complex Adaptive System

This chapter argues that the economic system is best perceived as a complex adaptive system, and as such, the traditional analytical methods of economics are not optimal for its study. Agent-based computational economics (ACE) studies the economic system from the bottom up and recognizes interaction between autonomous agents as the central mechanism in generating the self-organizing features of...

Metathesis: Language as a Complex Adaptive System

It is now well understood that language use shapes the acoustic delivery of phonological patterns and, in particular, phonological change. One example of this type of language change-under-use is metathesis, the reversal of the expected linear ordering of sounds. The gradual transformation of chipotle to chipolte, a Spanish import, is an example of metathetic change in American English. The Gen...

Analogy-Making as a Complex Adaptive System

This paper describes a computer program, called Copycat, that models how people make analogies. It might seem odd to include such a topic in a collection of papers mostly on the immune system. However, the immune system is one of many systems in nature in which a very large collection of relatively simple agents, operating with no central control and limited communication among themselves, coll...