Emergence: An Illustration of the Concept forEducation of Young Students

摘要

The concept of emergence in systems is a difficult concept for beginners in thernanalysis of systems to appreciate. The essence of the emergence concept is that when a set ofrncomponents are brought together and assembled into a system, that system exhibits propertiesrnthat are different than the aggregation of the properties of the components taken separately.rnSystems educators have, amongst other roles, the task of providing students with an intuitivernsense of the nature of the emergence phenomenon. This paper discusses the use of tennis, a sportrnwith a hierarchical scoring structure, as an illustration of the nature and characteristics ofrnemergence in systems.