On Autonomy and Emergence in Self-Organizing Systems

  • Authors:
  • Richard Holzer;Hermann Meer;Christian Bettstetter

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany 94032;Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany 94032;Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, Mobile Systems Group, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria 9020

  • Venue:
  • IWSOS '08 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

For analyzing properties of complex systems, a mathematical model for these systems is useful. In this paper we describe how discrete complex systems can be modeled mathematically and we give a framework for the analysis of the system with respect to the properties autonomy and emergence, which are two of the most important properties of self-organizing systems. The modeling is done by using a multigraph to describe the connections between objects and stochastic automatons for the behavior of the objects.