Software Systems are complex entities composed by elements or components, subsystems, interrelated that could be considered themselves as systems. The evolution and functioning of the system as a whole is to be thought out as an anticipatory process. Additionally, the subsystems are also to follow functional and evolutionary processes that could be themselves anticipatory processes in which the selection of functional and evolutionary actions by subsystems is done among the whole set of possible actions. In order to deal with the existence of subsystems, we propose the existence of intra and inter anticipatory processes between subsystems. That is to say, one subsystem could anticipate its own evolutionary or functional process (intra-anticipation), or the evolutionary or functional process of other subsystem (interanticipation). In this paper we present the relationship that exists between the structure of the system, its evolutionary characteristics and intra and inter-anticipatory process.

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