Decentralized System

A Decentralized System is a System in which lower level components operate on local information to accomplish global goals.

• AKA: Decentralised System.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Human-controlled Decentralized System to being an Autonomous Decentralized System.
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• Example(s):
  • a Decentralized Web,
  • a Decentralized Computing System,
  • a Decentralized Network,
  • a Decentralized Online Social Network,
  • a Decentralized Clinical Trial,
  • a Decentralized Research,
  • a Decentralized Digital Currency,
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Centralised System.
• See: Systems Theory, Decentralization, Distributed Computing System, Swarm Intelligence, Peer-to-Peer Software System.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralised_system Retrieved:2014-9-19.
  • A decentralised system in systems theory is a system in which lower level components operate on local information to accomplish global goals. The global pattern of behaviour is an emergent property of dynamical mechanisms that act upon local components, such as indirect communication, rather than the result of a central ordering influence (see centralised system).

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