A formalism for multi-level emergent behaviours in designed component-based systems and agent-based simulations

There currently exists no means of specifying or analysing specific emergent behaviours in designed multi-component systems. For this reason, important questions about the lower level mechanisms giving rise to emergent behaviours cannot be resolved.

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