LIVING SYSTEMS’ ORGANISATION AND PROCESSES FOR ACHIEVING ADAPTATION - Principles to Borrow from Biology

Dragana Laketic, Gunnar Tufte

2009

Abstract

Man–made systems, just like their biological counterparts, need to operate in a fluctuating environment. Living systems survive despite these fluctuations. Their viability is made possible due to the ability to adapt to environmental fluctuations. Such ability the living systems possess is due to the organisation of these systems and processes performed in response to fluctuation. Therefore, deeper understanding of those aspects of the living systems which make them adaptable may be beneficial for human designers when faced with the demands for the design of adaptive systems. This paper presents current state of our investigation and some interesting postulations about how adaptation process may be sustained until adaptation is achieved in the system under consideration. Further, we discuss some aspects of the living systems’ organisation which may offer useful guidelines for adaptive systems design.

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Laketic D. and Tufte G. (2009). LIVING SYSTEMS’ ORGANISATION AND PROCESSES FOR ACHIEVING ADAPTATION - Principles to Borrow from Biology . In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-014-6, pages 254-259. DOI: 10.5220/0002335702540259


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@conference{icec09,
author={Dragana Laketic and Gunnar Tufte},
title={LIVING SYSTEMS’ ORGANISATION AND PROCESSES FOR ACHIEVING ADAPTATION - Principles to Borrow from Biology},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={254-259},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002335702540259},
isbn={978-989-674-014-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009)
TI - LIVING SYSTEMS’ ORGANISATION AND PROCESSES FOR ACHIEVING ADAPTATION - Principles to Borrow from Biology
SN - 978-989-674-014-6
AU - Laketic D.
AU - Tufte G.
PY - 2009
SP - 254
EP - 259
DO - 10.5220/0002335702540259