  Self-adjusting, or adaptive systems have gathered much recent interest. We
present a model for self-adjusting systems which treats the control parameters
of the system as slowly varying, rather than constant. The dynamics of these
parameters is governed by a low-pass filtered feedback from the dynamical
variables of the system. We apply this model to the logistic map and examine
the behavior of the control parameter. We find that the parameter leaves the
chaotic regime. We observe a high probability of finding the parameter at the
boundary between periodicity and chaos. We therefore find that this system
exhibits adaptation to the edge of chaos.

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems