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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > -----Original Message----- > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] > Sent: 20 May 2002 14:26 > To: 'Bill de hOra'; uche.ogbuji@f...; 'Eric Bohlman' > Cc: 'xml-dev' > Subject: Intelligent Adaptive Systems (WAS RE: > Objections to / uses of PSVI?) > > > Adaptation requires extra resources or very precise coordination > with the environment as it changes. The issue is the ability > to identify a pattern and predict changes. These are markov > problems. If thriving in an environment requires instrumenting > the environment to detect emergence, it is quite straightforward > for a well-adapted system to evolve with the environment. Adaptation first requires the ability to adapt; trite as it may sound, that implies inbuilt redundancy. > Are you discussing intelligent adaptation? Not as much as engineering in degrees of freedom to allow adaptation; the behaviour might look intelligent from a distance, but it's largely a consequence of not being brittle (brittle things are in a sense, stupid). If all the subsystems are maximised instead of optimal there's little or no room left to change and no execess capacity to invest. It's why we build buffers between computer processes; we typically tune them for efficiency not responsiveness. De Marco's book is worth reading, no surprise there. Bill de hÓra -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBPOkOeOaWiFwg2CH4EQIJCwCglg5ey4wrUyRgkBzgGPPh5dMcy/MAniXD IjLjmYknlkPXrVoVxSDLMdRj =uRKP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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