In general, its units worked on a theater-by-theater basis, without a great deal of central coordination.

School officials said the use of computers at the board developed with little central coordination.

It arises through the need for flood control and irrigation, which requires central coordination and a specialized bureaucracy.

Autonomy and Decentralization: the nodes collectively form the system without any central coordination.

Yet there is no central coordination of broadband deployment.

It is considered an emergent behavior arising from simple rules that are followed by individuals and does not involve any central coordination.

There is no central coordination, underground or otherwise.

Ad hoc networks have no access point for central coordination.

But most foreign analysts doubt that the Hmong were involved, seeing the recent unrest as diffuse and without central coordination.

Peer-to-peer means distributed architecture without the need for central coordination.