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This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it...
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Page, Scott, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Diversity and Complexity / Scott Page. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010] ©2011 1 online resource (304 p.) : 10 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Primers in Complex Systems ; 2 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: The Meaning of Diversity -- 1. On Diversity and Complexity -- 2. Measuring Diversity -- 3. The Creation and Evolution of Diversity -- 4. Constraints on Diversity -- 5. Variation in Complex Systems -- 6. Diversity's Inescapable Benefits I: Averaging -- 7. Diversity's Inescapable Benefits II: Diminishing Returns to Types -- 8. Diversity's Impact in Complex Systems -- 9. Parting Thoughts -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for performance measures. In complex adaptive systems, diversity makes fundamental contributions to system performance. Scott Page gives a concise primer on how diversity happens, how it is maintained, and how it affects complex systems. He explains how diversity underpins system level robustness, allowing for multiple responses to external shocks and internal adaptations; how it provides the seeds for large events by creating outliers that fuel tipping points; and how it drives novelty and innovation. Page looks at the different kinds of diversity--variations within and across types, and distinct community compositions and interaction structures--and covers the evolution of diversity within complex systems and the factors that determine the amount of maintained diversity within a system. Provides a concise and accessible introduction Shows how diversity underpins robustness and fuels tipping points Covers all types of diversity The essential primer on diversity in complex adaptive systems Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Complexity (Philosophy). Cultural pluralism. SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology General. SOCIAL SCIENCE Regional Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology General. Social systems. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691137674 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400835140 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400835140 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400835140.jpg |
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