Title :
Evolutionary dynamics of systems
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Syst. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Nonlinear systems with positive feedback will make the system to evolve under natural selection and human intervention with limited resources. The behaviors of evolution might be very complicated. In order to describe complexity, fractal modelings are usually appropriate. The evolution of a system from generation to generation is moving toward an attractor which might be a point or a set of patterns. During the evolution, quantitative changes as well as qualitative changes are both possible. Phase transition which is the boundary of two attracting basins is a turning point for qualitative change. In order to control the evolution toward a better condition, searching for a better solution among alternatives, of which the number of possibilities is huge, is the purpose of human intervention. Therefore, positive feedback, fractal, attractors and phase transition, and searching for better are the main issues of the evolutionary dynamics of systems
Keywords :
feedback; nonlinear systems; system theory; attractors; complexity; evolutionary dynamics; fractal; fractal modelings; human intervention; natural selection; nonlinear systems; phase transition; positive feedback; qualitative changes; quantitative changes; Chemical industry; Chemical processes; Feedback; Fractals; Humans; Mathematical model; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Nonlinear systems; Systems engineering and theory; Turning;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1996., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3280-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1996.569732