{"id":1771,"date":"2019-02-15T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T03:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petaguy.info\/blog\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=1771"},"modified":"2019-02-15T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T03:31:36","slug":"complex-adaptive-systems","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"http:\/\/petaguy.info\/blog\/glossary\/complex-adaptive-systems","title":{"rendered":"Complex Adaptive Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <b>complex adaptive system<\/b> is a system in which a perfect understanding of the individual parts does not automatically convey a perfect understanding of the whole system&#8217;s behavior. The study of complex adaptive systems, a subset of <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Nonlinear dynamical system\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonlinear_dynamical_system\">nonlinear dynamical systems<\/a>,is highly interdisciplinary and blends insights from the natural and social sciences to develop system-level models and insights that allow for <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Heterogeneous agents\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heterogeneous_agents\">heterogeneous agents<\/a>, <a title=\"Phase transition\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phase_transition\">phase transition<\/a>, and <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Emergent behavior\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emergent_behavior\">emergent behavior<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>They are <i><a title=\"Complex system\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Complex_system\">complex<\/a><\/i> in that they are <a title=\"Dynamic network analysis\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dynamic_network_analysis\">dynamic networks of interactions<\/a>, and their relationships are not aggregations of the individual static entities, i.e., the behavior of the ensemble is not predicted by the behavior of the components. They are <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Adaptive\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adaptive\">adaptive<\/a><\/i> in that the individual and <a title=\"Collective behavior\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Collective_behavior\">collective behavior<\/a> mutate and <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Self-organizing\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-organizing\">self-organize<\/a> corresponding to the change-initiating micro-event or collection of events. They are a &#8220;complex macroscopic collection&#8221; of relatively &#8220;similar and partially connected micro-structures&#8221; formed in order to <a title=\"Adaptive system\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adaptive_system\">adapt<\/a> to the changing environment and increase their survivability as a <a title=\"Macrostructure (sociology)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macrostructure_(sociology)\">macro-structure<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-CAS-T-01_4-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Complex_adaptive_system\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Complex_adaptive_system<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=text-align:right;><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A complex adaptive system is a system in which a perfect understanding of the individual parts does not automatically convey a perfect understanding of the whole system&#8217;s behavior. The study <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/petaguy.info\/blog\/glossary\/complex-adaptive-systems\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"glossary-cat":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","ab-block-post-grid-landscape":"","ab-block-post-grid-square":"","slider":"","featured":"","small-featured":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>A complex adaptive system is a system in which a perfect understanding of the individual parts does not automatically convey a perfect understanding of the whole system&#8217;s behavior. The study of complex adaptive systems, a subset of nonlinear dynamical systems,is highly interdisciplinary and blends insights from the natural and social sciences to develop system-level models and insights that allow for heterogeneous agents, phase transition, and emergent behavior. They are complex in that they are dynamic networks of interactions, and their relationships are not aggregations of the individual static entities, i.e., the behavior of the ensemble is not predicted by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"","author_info_v2":{"name":"Peta Guy","url":"http:\/\/petaguy.info\/blog\/author\/peta"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"ab-block-post-grid-landscape":false,"ab-block-post-grid-square":false,"slider":false,"featured":false,"small-featured":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Peta Guy","author_link":"http:\/\/petaguy.info\/blog\/author\/peta"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A complex adaptive system is a system in which a perfect understanding of the individual parts does not automatically convey a perfect understanding of the whole system&#8217;s behavior. 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