Two large, open source software systems are analyzed from the vantage point of complex adaptive systems theory. For both systems, the full dependency graphs are constructed and their properties are shown to be consistent with the assumption of stochastic growth. In particular, the afferent links...

We investigate the performances of collective task-solving capabilities and the robustness of complex networks of automata using the density and synchronization problems as typical cases. We show by computer simulations that evolved Watts–Strogatz small-world networks have superior performance...