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In Beyond The Book Metaphor, towards the end, we described the concept of "stable cooperating systems". The essence is that perturbations will be introduced into the processes as a consequence of many forces some of which are unpredictable as to entry time or source (eg, sudden changes in the environment), but as long as the behavior remains cooperative in nature, the markup system of contracting pulls it back to stability. As long as one can avoid min/max regions that are stable but suboptimal (the "thump it" issue in annealing), this system evolves. The ecology metaphor emphasizes trading at the overlapping boundaries of communities much the same as namespaces imply shared semantics among otherwise encapsulated systems. Frictionless trading is a nice goal, but not realistic. A system that regularly greases the surfaces remains fit for a long time though. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h From: Peter Murray-Rust [mailto:peter@u...] I agree completely with this. When I talk and tutor on "XML" (which is wider than XML V1.0) this is the area that I highlight first. It is about humans cooperating to make it possible for machines to talk to each other. XML-DEV was founded very much on this philosophy. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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