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      Automatic Emergence Detection in Complex Systems

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          Complex systems consist of multiple interacting subsystems, whose nonlinear interactions can result in unanticipated (emergent) system events. Extant systems analysis approaches fail to detect such emergent properties, since they analyze each subsystem separately and arrive at decisions typically through linear aggregations of individual analysis results. In this paper, we propose a quantitative definition of emergence for complex systems. We also propose a framework to detect emergent properties given observations of its subsystems. This framework, based on a probabilistic graphical model called Bayesian Knowledge Bases (BKBs), learns individual subsystem dynamics from data, probabilistically and structurally fuses said dynamics into a single complex system dynamics, and detects emergent properties. Fusion is the central element of our approach to account for situations when a common variable may have different probabilistic distributions in different subsystems. We evaluate our detection performance against a baseline approach (Bayesian Network ensemble) on synthetic testbeds from UCI datasets. To do so, we also introduce a method to simulate and a metric to measure discrepancies that occur with shared/common variables. Experiments demonstrate that our framework outperforms the baseline. In addition, we demonstrate that this framework has uniform polynomial time complexity across all three learning, fusion, and reasoning procedures.

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                Journal
                Complexity
                Complexity
                Hindawi Limited
                1076-2787
                1099-0526
                2017
                2017
                : 2017
                :
                : 1-24
                Article
                10.1155/2017/3460919
                67214e40-59ee-46e4-95f4-74c8453b9309
                © 2017

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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