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ENGINEERING COMPLEX SYSTEMS: Introduction
ENGINEERING COMPLEX SYSTEMS: Introduction
Pages 69-74
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Consider the January 2004 announcement by President Bush of a new initiative to send humans to Mars. A lot of heated discussion ensued, but images of a human colony on the Moon, and later on Mars, have made their way into funding agencies, such as DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
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Interactions between elements may occur with immediate neighbors or distant neighbors; agents can be identical or different from each other; they may move in space or occupy fixed positions; and they can be in one of two states or multiple states. The common characteristic of all complex systems is that they display organization without any external organizing principle being applied.
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Consider how ants find food sources and how their communication methods efficiently solve the problem of the search for and transport of food. A particularly exciting realm in which emergence is of great importance is language acquisition, a topic to which this author has made important contributions.
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