Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
2004-08-27
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
7 pages, CCCT-04 invited session, Austin Texas, 16 August 2004
Scientific paper
Physical analogs have shown considerable promise for understanding the behavior of complex adaptive systems, including macroeconomics, biological systems, social networks, and electric power markets. Many of today's most challenging technical and policy questions can be reduced to a distributed economic control problem. Indeed, economically-based control of large-scale systems is founded on the conjecture that the price-based regulation (e.g., auctions, markets) results in an optimal allocation of resources and emergent optimal system control. This paper explores the state of the art in the use physical analogs for understanding the behavior of some econophysical systems and deriving stable and robust control strategies for them. In particular we review and discuss applications of some analytic methods based on a thermodynamic metaphor according to which the interplay between system entropy and conservation laws gives rise to intuitive and governing global properties of complex systems that cannot be otherwise understood.
Chassin David P.
Malard Joel
Posse Christian
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