TY - JOUR
T1 - Imbalance and balancing
T2 - Development of ecological flow networks
AU - Haruna, Taichi
AU - Gunji, Yukio Pegio
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS Resarch Fellowships for Young Scientists.
Copyright:
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - In this paper we address balancing process of ecological flow networks. In existing approaches, macroscopic objectives to which systems organize are assumed. Flow balance provides only constraints for the optimization. Since flow balance and objectives are separated from each other, it is impossible to address how the appearance of objectives is related to flow balance. Therefore, we take an alternative approach, in which we directly describe a dynamics of balancing process. We propose a simple mathematical formula for local balancing dynamics and show that it can generate a self-organizing property, which could be seen as a primitive objective.
AB - In this paper we address balancing process of ecological flow networks. In existing approaches, macroscopic objectives to which systems organize are assumed. Flow balance provides only constraints for the optimization. Since flow balance and objectives are separated from each other, it is impossible to address how the appearance of objectives is related to flow balance. Therefore, we take an alternative approach, in which we directly describe a dynamics of balancing process. We propose a simple mathematical formula for local balancing dynamics and show that it can generate a self-organizing property, which could be seen as a primitive objective.
KW - Balancing
KW - Ecosystem
KW - Imbalance
KW - Objective
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecocom.2008.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.ecocom.2008.11.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67349152348
VL - 6
SP - 208
EP - 218
JO - Ecological Complexity
JF - Ecological Complexity
SN - 1476-945X
IS - 2
ER -