Includes bibliographical references and index.

Metaphysical and scientific accounts of emergence : varieties of fundamentality and theoretical completeness / John Symons -- Emergence : what does it mean and how is it relevant to computer engineering? / Wesley J. Wildman and F. LeRon Shults -- System theoretic foundations for emergent behavior modeling : the case of emergence of human language in a resource-constrained complex intelligent dynamical system / Bernard P. Zeigler and Saurabh Mittal -- : generative parallax simulation : creative cognition models of emergence for simulation-driven model discovery / Levent Yilmaz -- Complex systems engineering and the challenge of emergence / Andreas Tolk, Saikou Diallo and Saurabh Mittal -- Emergence in complex enterprises / William Rouse -- Emergence in information economies : an agent-based modeling perspective / Erika Frydenlund and David C. Earnest -- Modeling emergence in system of systems using thermodynamic concepts / John J. Johnson IV, Jose J. Padilla and Andres Sousa-Poza -- Induced emergence in computational social systems engineering : multimodels and dynamic couplings as methodological basis / Tuncer Ören, Saurabh Mittal and Umut Durak -- Applied complexity science : enabling emergence through heuristics and simulations / Michael D. Norman, Matthew T.K. Koehler and Rob Pitsko -- Towards the automated detection of emergent behavior / Claudia Szabo and Lachlan Birdsey -- Isolating the causes of emergent failures in computer software / Ross Gore -- From modularity to complexity : a cross-disciplinary framework for characterizing systems / Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly -- The emergence of social schemas and lossy conceptual information networks : how information transmission can lead to the apparent 'emergence' of culture / Justin E. Lane -- Modeling and simulation of emergence behavior in transportation infrastructure restoration / Akhilesh Ojha, Steven Corns, Thomas Shoberg, Ruwen Qin and Suzanna Long -- Research agenda for next generation complex systems engineering / Saikou Diallo, Saurabh Mittal and Andreas Tolk.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2018).

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