Global food systems have increased in complexity significantly since the mid-twentieth century, through such innovations as mechanization, irrigation, genetic modification, and globalization of supply chains. While complexification can be an effective problem-solving strategy, over-complexification cause environmental degradation lead to become increasingly dependent on external subsidies vulne...

We study the complexification of real Hilbert C∗-modules over real C∗-algebras. We give an example of a Hilbert Ac-module that is not the complexification of any Hilbert A-module, where A is a real C∗-algebra.

The nonlinear energy sink (NES), which is proven to perform rapid and passive targeted transfer (TET), has been employed for vibration mitigation in many primary small- large-scale structures. Recently, the feature of bistability, two nontrivial stable equilibria one trivial unstable equilibrium exist, utilized TET what known as bistable NES (BNES). BNES generates a force that incorporates nega...

Approaches to evolving the architectures of artificial neural networks have involved incrementally adding topological features (complexification), removing features (simplification), or both. We will present a comparative study of these dynamics, focusing on the domains of XOR and Tic-Tac-Toe, using NEAT (NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies) as the starting point. Experimental comparisons a...

The evolution of naturalistic, embodied agents and behaviours has been a long-standing goal of Artificial Life since the initial, impressive work of Karl Sims. Incremental evolution has been used extensively to improve the quality of evolutionary search in many complex, non-linear problem spaces. This work sets out to disambiguate the lexicon around incremental evolution, advocating the term en...

This paper deals with the arrow of complexification of engineering. We claim that the complexification of engineering consists in (a) that shift throughout which engineering becomes a science; thus it ceases to be a (mere) praxis or profession; (b) becoming a science, engineering can be considered as one of the sciences of complexity. In reality, the complexification of engineering is the proce...