Open AccessOn the emergence of complex systems on the basis of the coordination of complex behaviors of their elements: Synchronization and complexity
Author(s) -
Atay Fatihcan M.,
Jost Jürgen
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
complexity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1099-0526
pISSN - 1076-2787
DOI - 10.1002/cplx.20045
Subject(s) - citation , library science , planck , computer science , mathematics , physics , combinatorics , astrophysics
We argue that the coordination of the activities of individual complex agentsenables a system to develop and sustain complexity at a higher level. Weexemplify relevant mechanisms through computer simulations of a toy system, acoupled map lattice with transmission delays. The coordination here is achievedthrough the synchronization of the chaotic operations of the individualelements, and on the basis of this, regular behavior at a longer temporal scaleemerges that is inaccessible to the uncoupled individual dynamics