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Emergent Phenomena in Natural Complex Systems

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In this chapter are described some properties of emergent phenomena and situations that appear in natural complex systems. There are introduced three classes of unexpected situations and two of them belong to emergent situations. For the detecting possibility of appearance of emergent situation is used the indication of violation of structural invariant of the complex system. Here is used only one type of structural invariant—matroid and matroid bases. A simple calculus for the emergent situation appearance computation is introduced. The application of the presented approach and computation method is demonstrated by three simple emergent situations: the change of the strategy in swarm colony, traffic jam and floods.

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The development of this chapter has been supported by Research Grant SGS12/177/OHK2/3T/12. This support is very gratefully acknowledged.

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    Jiri Bila

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  2. Department of Computer Science, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Ivan Zelinka

  3. Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Otto E. Rössler

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Bila, J. (2014). Emergent Phenomena in Natural Complex Systems. In: Sanayei, A., Zelinka, I., Rössler, O. (eds) ISCS 2013: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45438-7_9

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