How might KEEL be used to represent or model emergent behavior?
“In philosophy, systems theory and science, emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels and of complex systems.”(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Elements of nature exhibit emergent behavior as they are exposed to pieces of information in new circumstances. The pieces of information may have been there all along, but they are just treated differently, because of their relationships with other pieces of information. In some cases, totally new pieces of information are added into the mix. Time and space may impact how the pieces of information are interpreted. KEEL has several characteristics that make it valuable for modeling emergent behavior. First, unlike scripted models, one does not create models to address specific answers. This would assume that the modeler would always know the outcome and was capable of creating the appropriate mathematical model
