Characterizing emergent phenomena (1): a critical review

Eric Bonabeau (1) , Jean-Louis Dessalles (2, 3, 4) , Alain Grumbach (2, 3, 4)

1 ICOSYSTEM
2 Télécom ParisTech
3 INFRES - Département Informatique et Réseaux
4 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information

Emergence seems to be a central concept in Artificial Life, Cognitive Science, and many other related domains, but the meaning of which is not really agreed upon. In this paper, we critically review some major conceptions of emergence and give some examples of phenomena that are usually considered emergent.

Mots clés: emergence; detection; cognition; capteur

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Eric Bonabeau, Jean-Louis Dessalles, Alain Grumbach. Characterizing emergent phenomena (1): a critical review. Revue Internationale de Systémique, 1995, 9 (3), pp.327-346. ⟨hal-00616420⟩