title: [Decentralized self-regulation of the integrity of colonial organisms].
abstract: The self-regulation of the integrity of colonial organism is accomplished without any central system organs. Abundance of similar structures, parallelism and synchrony of the processes form the basis for self-regulation, thus creating the independent mechanism of the internal coordination of the processes. Decentralized regulation of the integrity is much more economical then the centralized regulation, because it does not demand large volume of information, consequent increase in complexity of its processing and unavoidable problems with coordination. The principles of decentralized self-regulation, addressed in this paper, can be use not only in biology, but also in sociology, psychology, modeling, neuroformatics, etc.
authors.affiliation: Dept. Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow University, Moscow 119899, Russia. marfenin@Nmarfenin.home.bio.msu.ru
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Marfenin
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D003063:Cnidaria / Q000502:physiology*; D006706:Homeostasis