A note on promoting positive emergence and managing negative emergence in systems of systems. (January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zeigler, Bernard P
• Is Part Of: Journal of defense modeling and simulation. Volume 13:Number 1(2016:Jan.)
• Page Start: 133
• Page End: 136
• Publication Date: 2016-01
• Subjects: emergence -- systems of systems -- functional architecture -- system misbehaviors -- pragmatic-level communication -- national healthcare systems -- value-based pricing; Military art and science -- Computer simulation -- Periodicals; 355.0011305
• DOI: 10.1177/1548512915620580
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1548-5129

Abstract

"Emergence" is a descriptive term that is gaining currency for a set of phenomena that are becoming increasingly important to understand scientifically. Recently, several works have used the context of socio-technical systems of systems to serve as a germane abstraction for characterizing emergence. In this note, we formulate conditions as a tri-layer architecture required for promoting the emergence of desired behaviors in a system of systems and managing unintended undesired effects.