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JA Scott Kelso (2009). Coordination Dynamics. in RA Meyers Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science provides an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the concepts of complexity theory together with the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems in all fields of science and J.A. Scott Kelso (2009). Coordinationengineering. The science dynamics and tools of complexity. In andR.A. systems Meyers science include (ed.) theo- ries of self-organization, complex systems, synergetics, dynamical systems, turbulence, Encyclopedia of complexitycatastrophes, and systems instabilities, nonlinearity, sciences stochastic (pp. processes,1537-1564). chaos, neural networks, cellular automata, adaptive systems, and genetic algorithms. 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Gaasterland T (1997) Cooperative answering through con- Three Deceptively Simple Experiments trolled query relaxation. IEEE Expert 12(5):48–59 The Theoretical Modeling Strategy of Coordination 6. Gaasterland T, Godfrey P, Minker J (1992) Relaxation as a plat- form for cooperative answering. J Intell Inf Syst 1(3):293–321 Dynamics: Symmetry and Bifurcations 7. Giannotti F, Manco G (2002) Integrating data mining with in- Metastable Coordination Dynamics telligent query answering. Logics in Artificial Intelligence. Lec- Coordination of Multiple Components: ture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2424. Springer, Berlin, From Quadrupeds to Brains pp 517–520 “Collective Minds” 8. Godfrey P (1993) Minimization in cooperative response to fail- ing database queries. Int J Coop Inf Syst 6(2):95–149 Modifying Coordination: Meaningful Information 9. Guarino N (1998) Formal ontology in information systems. IOS A Brief Survey of Applications and Elaborations Press, Amsterdam of Coordination Dynamics 10. Im S, Ras ZW (2007) Protection of sensitive data based on Future Directions and Conclusions: The Complementary reducts in a distributed knowledge discovery system. Proceed- Nature of Coordination Dynamics ings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiq- uitous Engineering (MUE 2007), Seoul. IEEE Computer Society, Acknowledgments pp 762–766 Bibliography 11. Lin TY (1989) Neighborhood systems and approximation in re- lational databases and knowledge bases. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intel- Glossary ligent Systems. Poster Session Program, Oak Ridge National Coordination dynamics Coordination Dynamics, de- Laboratory, ORNL/DSRD-24, pp 75–86 12. Muslea I (2004) Machine Learning for Online Query Relaxation. fined broadly as the science of coordination, describes, Proceedings of KDD-2004, Seattle. ACM, pp 246–255 explains and predicts how patterns of coordination 13. Pawlak Z (1981) Information systems – theoretical founda- form, adapt, persist and change in living things. In co- tions. Inf Syst J 6:205–218 ordination dynamics the parts communicate via mu- 14. Ras ZW, Dardzinska A (2004) Ontology based distributed au- tual information exchange and information is mean- tonomous knowledge systems. Inf Syst Int J 29 (1):47–58 15. Ras ZW, Dardzinska A (2006) Solving Failing Queries through ingful and specific to the forms coordination takes. Cooperation and Collaboration, Special Issue on Web Re- Coordination dynamics embraces both spontaneous sources Access. World Wide Web J 9(2):173–186 self-organizing tendencies and the need to guide or 16. Ras ZW, Zhang X, Lewis R (2007) MIRAI: Multi-hierarchical, direct them in specific ways in a single conceptual FS-tree based Music Information Retrieval System. In: framework. 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