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5.6.2 Emergence: An Illustration of the Concept for Education of Young Students
Author(s) -
Ferris Timothy L.J.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2003.tb02673.x
Subject(s) - phenomenon , set (abstract data type) , task (project management) , computer science , epistemology , mathematics education , human–computer interaction , cognitive science , psychology , engineering , systems engineering , philosophy , programming language
The concept of emergence in systems is a difficult concept for beginners in the analysis of systems to appreciate. The essence of the emergence concept is that when a set of components are brought together and assembled into a system, that system exhibits properties that are different than the aggregation of the properties of the components taken separately. Systems educators have, amongst other roles, the task of providing students with an intuitive sense of the nature of the emergence phenomenon. This paper discusses the use of tennis, a sport with a hierarchical scoring structure, as an illustration of the nature and characteristics of emergence in systems.