Title:
On the Emergence of Complex Systems on the Basis of the Coordination of Complex Behavior of Their Elements
Author(s):
Fatihcan Atay, Jürgen Jost
Paper #:
04-02-005
Date:
Feb. 1, 2004
Abstract:
We argue that the coordination of the activities of individual complex agents enables a system to develop and sustain complexity at a higher level. We exemplify relevant mechanisms through computer simulations of a toy system, a coupled map lattice with transmission delays. The coordination here is achieved through the synchronization of the chaotic operations of the individual elements, and on the basis of this, regular behavior at a longer temporal scale emerges that is inaccessible to the uncoupled individual dynamics.
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