In the development of disciplines addressing dynamics, a major role was played by the assumption that processes can be modeled by introducing state properties, called potentialities, anticipating in which respect a next state will be different. A second assumption often made is that these state...

Agent-based simulation methods are a relatively new way to address complex systems. Usually, the idea is that the agents used are rather simple, and the complexity and adaptivity of such a system are modeled by the interaction between these agents. However, another way to exploit agent-based...