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Emergence: Models, Metaphors, and Innovation

Out of Print
By: John Holland
256 pages, 30 line illus, laminated boards
Emergence: Models, Metaphors, and Innovation
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  • Emergence: Models, Metaphors, and Innovation ISBN: 9780198504092 Paperback Dec 1998 Out of Print #83462
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About this book

Shows us how a theory of emergence (ie. the ubiquitous feature of the world around us) can predict many complex behaviours, and has much to teach us about life, the mind and organisations. This is a book that will have important ramifications for every aspect of human intellectual endeavour.

Contents

Before we proceed; Games and numbers; Maps, game theory, and computer-based modelling; Checkers; Neural nets; Toward a general setting; Constrained generating procedures; Samuel's checkersplayer and other models as Cgps; Variation; Levels of description; Metaphor and innovation; Closing

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Out of Print
By: John Holland
256 pages, 30 line illus, laminated boards
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