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Seminar Andrea Carlo Lo Verso (26th April 2017, 10:00 am)
Andrea Carlo Lo Verso
Seminar on:
'"Evolution and coevolution of complex systems: The NK model perspective"
Wednesday, 26th April 2017
Lecture Room IV, 2nd Floor, via Belle Arti 41, 10:00 am
All welcome
Abstract
The so-called NK model, introduced in the field of theoretical biology by Stuart A. Kauffman, offers a flexible and highly generalizable framework to understand the evolutionary dynamics of complex systems. In fact, this model has been extensively used in a variety of disciplines dealing with very different kinds of complex systems: biological ecosystems, technological artifacts, economic and industrial systems. This suggests the idea that complexity has some general features that hold true in many different contexts. In particular, the NK model shows how simple behaviour rules of the individual components of the system can generate highly complex patterns at the macro level. The main result of the model is that the level of performance of a complex system is non-trivially related to its degree of complexity (measured as the number of interactions among components). The main consequence of this is that complex systems tend to self-organize their internal and external interaction structures, determining a dynamic state characterized both by stability and turbolent change.
Published on: April 23 2017
