creators_name: Chandler, Jerry
creators_name: Ehresmann, Andrée
creators_name: Vanbremeersch, JeanPaul
editors_name: Lasker, George
editors_name: Farre, George
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2001-09-23
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:44
metadata_visibility: show
title: Contrasting Two Representations of Emergence of Cellular Dynamics
ispublished: pub
subjects: bio-theory
subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory
full_text_status: public
keywords: Mathematical model, biological system, cell, communication channel
abstract: The organization of molecular and biological dynamics of a single cell is contrasted in terms of two general theories: 
1. Memory Evolutive Systems (MES) which present a mathematical model, based on category theory, for evolving self-organized hierarchical systems and have been developed in a series of papers by Ehresmann and Vanbremeersch since 1987; and  
2. the C8 hypothesis of Chandler (1991-92) which proposes specific methods of enumerating complexity.
Both theories give account of the hierarchical conformation of the cell and of its growth relying on a sequence of events during which manifestations of biological strategies emerge from exchanges with the environment and internal assemblies or disassemblies of higher complex structures. They indicate how a balanced cellular flow is achieved through the interactions among a net of overlapping cyclic internal communications channels. If a conflict arises, the biological coherence is restored by accelerating, delaying or inhibiting some of the cycles, thus explaining the simultaneous plasticity and bounded stability of a cell. The potential melding of these two theories to create applications describing the organization of evolutionary systems is being explored.

date: 1995
date_type: published
publisher: International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.Windsor, Canada
refereed: TRUE
referencetext: Ehresmann, A.C. & Vanbremeersch, J.-P. (1987), Hierarchical Evolutive Systems: A mathematical model for complex systems; Bull. of Math. Bio. 49 (1) (pp. 13-50).
Papers by the same authors deposited in Cogprints
citation:   Chandler, Jerry and Ehresmann, Andrée and Vanbremeersch, JeanPaul  (1995) Contrasting Two Representations of Emergence of Cellular Dynamics.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1659/1/Baden-Baden_95.htm