PT Journal AU Botella-Soler, V Glendinning, P TI Emergence of hierarchical networks and polysynchronous behaviour in simple adaptive systems SO Europhysics Letters JI EPL PY 2012 BP 50004 EP 5pp VL 97 IS 5 DI 10.1209/0295-5075/97/50004 LA English AB We describe the dynamics of a simple adaptive network. The network architecture evolves to a number of disconnected components on which the dynamics is characterized by the possibility of differently synchronized nodes within the same network (polysynchronous states). These systems may have implications for the evolutionary emergence of polysynchrony and hierarchical networks in physical or biological systems modeled by adaptive networks. ER