Elements about the Emergence Issue: A Survey of Emergence Definitions

Deguet, Joris; Demazeau, Yves; Magnin, Laurent

doi:10.1159/000094185

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“…Hence, in most social systems, on the one hand, when agents interact at the micro level, based on social signals, protocols and rules, macro phenomena such as formation of institution or behavior patterns at the collective level can be observed, giving rise to notion of "emergence" and these macro phenomena once formed, can in turn impact or constrain individual agent's behaviors through rules, conventions, norms, cases or law. (For more discussion on emergence and downward causation, see [14,15,40,49]). Our project models key "sociation" processes in the form of social interaction, cognizance and information processing such as the effects as well as the acceptance of social information.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ethical Trust and Social Moral Norms Simulation: A Bio-inspired Agent-Based Modelling Approach

Lim

Stocker

Larkin

2008

2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

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The understanding of the micro-macro link is an urgent need in the study of social systems. The complex adaptive nature of social systems adds to the challenges of understanding social interactions and system feedback and presents substantial scope and potential for extending the frontiers of computer-based research tools such as simulations and agent-based technologies. In this project, we seek to understand key research questions concerning the interplay of ethical trust at the individual level and the development of collective social moral norms as representative sample of the bigger micro-macro link of social systems. We outline our Computational Model of Ethical Trust (CMET) informed by research findings from trust, machine ethics and neural science. Guided by the CMET architecture, we discuss key implementation ideas for the simulations of ethical trust and social moral norms.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Ethical Trust and Social Moral Norms Simulation: A Bio-inspired Agent-Based Modelling Approach

Lim

Stocker

Larkin

2008

2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

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“…The emergent properties of a system have been noticed as early as in the fourth century BC, when Aristotle stated that the "whole is something beside the parts [13]." Interest in this emergent property of a system resurged in the form of modern emergence theory in recent years in a wide range of disciplines, such as evolutionary biology, complexity science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and others [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Since ilities are one of the emergent properties of engineering systems, characteristics and usage of ilities may also be studied with emergence theory.…”

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On Using Ilities of Non-Functional Properties for Subsystems and Components

Lee

Collins

2017

Systems

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Abstract:The use of ilities for systems engineering of subsystems and components is investigated. Prior work on ilities has emphasized or restricted their application to system level, non-functional properties. The premise of this work is that ilities can be applied with benefit, and in some cases out of necessity, to lower levels of systems as well. The veracity of this premise is established by providing examples that demonstrate how some ilities are passed and used as a non-functional property of electrical and structural subsystems in aircraft. It is further demonstrated that flowing ilities down to the subsystem level is not only a useful practice for systems engineers, it can also be an essential step to ensure that customer needs are actually met by the system under design or service. Systems engineers often lack the detailed knowledge of the subsystems or components required to translate ilities into functional requirements. Thus, the system ilities are passed down and translated from non-functional to functional requirements by subject matter experts. We first discuss the definition, characteristics and scope of ilities. Then, we formulate the application of ilities at a subsystem level. Next, we show aircraft engineering examples for ilities applications. The application process is formalized with diagrams, and ilities' relation to system architecture engineering is discussed. The work concludes with a summary and suggestions for future work.

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“…The trouble is that the notion of emergence is itself subject to a heated debate for a very long time, with no real consensus emerging [3,4]. First, emergence is a general term, which covers very different phenomena [5,6].…”

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Automatic characterization of emergent phenomena in complex systems

Moncion¹

2010

JBPC

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One of the main characteristics of complex systems is that the interrelations between the entities composing the system are not permanently established but evolve along time. As opposed to complicated systems, the structure of complex systems also evolve in a dynamic organizational process. When studying complex systems, self-organization and emergent phenomena must therefore be taken into account and studied carefully. In this paper, we propose to provide tools in order to automatically detect and characterize the emergent phenomena occurring in agent-based simulations. To this end, we consider the interactions between the entities at the lower level as the main organizational forces that shape the structure of the system at a higher level. These interactions are detected during the simulation and represented as dynamic graphs. Measures can then be made on various properties of the graph so as to detect the occurrence of structuring processes. Groups detection and tracking techniques are then introduced so as to characterize more precisely the exact nature of these processes.

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Elements about the Emergence Issue: A Survey of Emergence Definitions

Cited by 62 publications

References 33 publications

Ethical Trust and Social Moral Norms Simulation: A Bio-inspired Agent-Based Modelling Approach

Ethical Trust and Social Moral Norms Simulation: A Bio-inspired Agent-Based Modelling Approach

On Using Ilities of Non-Functional Properties for Subsystems and Components

Automatic characterization of emergent phenomena in complex systems

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