Self-organizing Adaptive System Research Articles

Solution of the problem of synthesis of the main contour oftheadaptive controlsystem for unstableand deterministic chaotic processes with m-inputs and n-outputs in the «Hyperbolic umbilic» catastrophe class

An urgent problem in the conditions of uncertainty of the parameters of the control object and external influences, for the control of unstable and deterministic chaotic processes, is the use of adaptation methods. In this case, the reference model with the desired dynamics and the main control loop of the adaptive system are constructed in the catastrophe class “hyperbolic umbilic”, and the aperiodic robust stability of the reference model with the desired dynamics and the main control loop of the self-organizing adaptive system with an increased potential for robust stability is studied by the gradient-velocity method of the vector function Lyapunov.

Empirical Tests of Zipf’s Law Mechanism in Open Source Linux Distribution

Zipf's power law is a ubiquitous empirical regularity found in many systems, thought to result from proportional growth. Here, we establish empirically the usually assumed ingredients of stochastic growth models that have been previously conjectured to be at the origin of Zipf's law. We use exceptionally detailed data on the evolution of open source software projects in Linux distributions, which offer a remarkable example of a growing complex self-organizing adaptive system, exhibiting Zipf's law over four full decades.

Who Is Speaking in Traditional Texts? On the Distributed Author of the Sagas of Icelanders and Serbian Epic Poetry

The paper raises the issue of inadequacy of the current narratological vocabulary when it comes to the question of who is speaking in traditional (oral and orally derived) narratives. Drawing on the concepts of "emergence" and "distributed representation" from the sciences of complexity, I attempt to provide an account of traditional narratives as self-organizing adaptive systems, the stories that "tell themselves." Rather than being products of a single mind, traditional narratives evolve over extensive periods of time and arise from networks of interrelated individuals: epic singers, storytellers/writers/scribes, audience members. Each of these individuals (network nodes) makes a local (if creative, or even unique) contribution, but none in particular is responsible for the character/identity of the whole text. This creativity relates irreducibly to the levels of organization beyond the individual, and is to be credited to the evolutionary dynamics of the narrative production itself, here termed the distributed author. The paper focuses on the sagas of Icelanders and Serbian epic poetry as they, due to the strong prevalence of decentralizing social factors in the milieus in which they evolved, represent exemplary products of distributed authorship.