From System Complexity to Emergent Properties

Cyrille Bertelle (1) , Moulay Aziz-Alaoui (2)

1 LITIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Traitement de l'Information et des Systèmes
2 LMAH - Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées du Havre

Emergence and complexity refer to the appearance of higher-level properties and behaviours of a system that obviously comes from the collective dynamics of that system's components. These properties are not directly deductable from the lower-level motion of that system. Emergent properties are properties of the "whole" that are not possessed by any of the individual parts making up that whole. Such phenomena exist in various domains and can be described, using complexity concepts and thematic knowledges. This book highlights complexity modelling through dynamical or behavioral systems. The pluridisciplinary purposes, developed along the chapters, are anable to design links between a wide-range of fundamental and applicative Science. Developing such links - instead of focusing on specific and narrow researches - is characteristic of the Science of Complexity that we try to promote by this contribution.

Domaines: Complexité [cs.CC]

Cyrille Bertelle, Moulay Aziz-Alaoui. From System Complexity to Emergent Properties. Springer Verlag, pp.369, 2009, Understanding Complex Systems. ⟨hal-00429153⟩