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Puppets Without Strings: Reflections on the Evolution and Control of Some Man-Made Systems

By V. I. Varshavsky , D. A. Pospelov

Book information

Publisher
Mir Publishers
Year
1988
ISBN
9785030002729, 5030002723
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8800890 bytes)
Series
Science for every one
Pages
294\300
Time added
2020-03-22 21:35:43

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It should be pointed out that complex processes due to local interactions between their components instead of centralized control occur in both nature and human society much more frequently than it may seem at first sight. Consequently, to reveal how the decentralized control arises in such situations due to the collective interaction of the system's components is a far harder job than unravelling the mystery of the Persymphense orchestra. Apart from other things, this book is an attempt to cope with this subject. Front Cover Title Page Contents Instead of a Preface Chapter 1 Decentralized Control: the Whys and Wherefores 1.1. The Man-Made World 1.2. Systems That Have Never Been Designed as a Whole 1.3. A Few Instructive Examples 1.4. Analysis of the Examples 1.5. Why Decentralization? Chapter 2 Is It Easy to Exist in a Contradictory World? 2.1. The Pros and Cons of Common Sense 2.2. A “Small Animal” 2.3. Reaping the Fruits of Linear Tactics 2.4. Smart Machines: Reckless and Cautious 2.5. How to Live in a Transient World 2.6. Hungry Bats and Aerobatics 2.7. Put Your Heads Together Chapter 3 “How Comes This Gentle Concord in the World?” 3.1. The Sukharev Tower Pact 3.2. When Everybody is Alike 3.3. Distribution of Limited Resources 3.4. What Shall We Do with Random Interactions? 3.5. He Thought I Thought He ... 3.6. Optimists and Pessimists in the World of Automata 3.7. Three More Simple Models Chapter 4 Jump the Queue and Call ItFair! 4.1. Where Do All the Queues Come From? 4.2. Barbers, Clients, and Priorities 4.3. How to Learn to Be a Foreman 4.4. One Circus Ring Is Not Enough 4.5. Problem Faced by Housing Board and Similar Problems 4.6. “Stubborn” Automata and Voting Chapter 5S tringless Puppets Make a Show 5.1. Wait and See Them Fire 5.2. Have Them Fire All at Once 5.3. Marching and Wandering Automata 5.4. Praise Be to Homogeneous Structures 5.5. Why Yoga Is Not Our Way? Chapter 6 Dialectics of the Simpleand the Complex 6.1. Synthesogenesis and Integration of Efforts 6.2. Segregatiogenesis and Its Effects 6.3. Evolution in the Erehwon City 6.4. Instead of a Conclusion. Evolution Goes on Back Cover

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