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Complex adaptive system
About: Complex adaptive system is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3190 publications have been published within this topic receiving 111947 citations. The topic is also known as: Complex adaptive system, CAS.
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TL;DR: It is argued that global governance processes exhibit features of complex adaptive systems, the analysis of which requires taking into account multiple types of power, and offers an expanded typology of eight kinds of power: physical, economic, structural, institutional, moral, discursive, expert, and network.
Abstract: The exercise of power permeates global governance processes, making power a critical concept for understanding, explaining, and influencing the intersection of global governance and health. This article briefly presents and discusses three well-established conceptualizations of power—Dahl’s, Bourdieu’s, and Barnett and Duvall’s—from different disciplines, finding that each is important for understanding global governance but none is sufficient. The conceptualization of power itself needs to be expanded to include the multiple ways in which one actor can influence the thinking or actions of others. I further argue that global governance processes exhibit features of complex adaptive systems, the analysis of which requires taking into account multiple types of power. Building on established frameworks, the article then offers an expanded typology of eight kinds of power: physical, economic, structural, institutional, moral, discursive, expert, and network. The typology is derived from and illustrated by examples from global health, but may be applicable to global governance more broadly. Finally, one seemingly contradictory – and cautiously optimistic – conclusion emerges from this typology: multiple types of power can mutually reinforce tremendous power disparities in global health; but at the same time, such disparities are not necessarily absolute or immutable. Further research on the complex interaction of multiple types of power is needed for a better understanding of global governance and health.
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TL;DR: Factors facilitating organizational emergence have been identified by interpreting complex adaptive systems (CAS) and social autopoiesis theories with the aim of identifying mechanisms or strategies that raise the emergent properties of social business enterprises.
Abstract: Modern turbulent business environments are characterized by rapid change that make businesses unpredictable, which brings emergence to the core of modern organizations. Deriving factors facilitating organizational emergence has been undertaken by drawing on complex adaptive systems (CAS) and social autopoiesis theories. Social autopoiesis was particularly chosen as it focuses on social elements, such as communication, morale, trust, etc. and their relation to social emergence, whereas CAS theory concentrates more on adaptive mechanisms that make a CAS produce emergent order, such as inter-relations, interactions, edge of chaos, feedback, etc. This led to the identification of various factors facilitating emergence and the development of a framework for utilizing these factors that were organized into two dimensions. First the factors are classified as either tangible or intangible. Second, the factors are classified as either dynamic, i.e., realize emergent properties, or they are concerned with the enabling infrastructure, i.e., enable the dynamic factors to become effective, or they are controlling factors, i.e., they attempt to balance excessive change with stability to prevent descent into chaos. The framework was applied to an Information Systems Development (ISD) project which showed that it is applicable to any type of business sector. This framework is argued to be a step forward to realize organizational emergence based on complexity principles derived from literature. The split between factors facilitating emergence and generic principles of CAS is not clear in the complexity literature and it is argued to be an important contribution of the paper. Introduction In turbulent business environments organizations need to react quickly and creatively to make the most of new opportunities and business models. These new imperatives of business practice require organizations to selforganise and become more flexible to handle change (Goldman et al, 1995). Of key importance to organizations in responding successfully to change is the concept of emergence. Complexity science, it has been argued, is a way of addressing and improving such capabilities in organizations, as it is concerned with the role of chance, emergence and contingency in the face of frequent and continuous change (Montuori, 2003). McKelvey (1997), Stacey et al (2000) and Mitleton- Kelly (2003) illustrate the growing interest in understanding organizations and new management practices in terms of theories of complexity that seek to provide new ways of thinking and reasoning in relation to emergent behavior. In this paper factors facilitating organizational emergence have been identified by interpreting complex adaptive systems (CAS) and social autopoiesis theories with the aim of identifying mechanisms or strategies that raise the emergent properties of social business enterprises. Social autopoiesis was chosen as it focuses on social elements of emergence, such as communication, collaboration, morale, trust, etc., whereas CAS theory concentrates more on adaptive mechanisms that make a CAS produce emergent order, such as inter-relations, interconnectivity, edge of chaos, feedback, etc. A thorough literature review of managementrelated contributions in the field of complexity and social autopoiesis theories was undertaken to extract mechanisms or strategies that are argued will facilitate the emergence of new work arrangements in the face of frequent change. Based on this a framework has been derived that summarizes the so-called factors that facilitate organizational emergence. The framework classifies factors as tangible and intangible, and it differentiates between dynamics, enabling infrastructure and controls, amongst emergence factors. Preliminary validation of the framework was carried out through its empirical application in the context of an information systems development (ISD) project, a business to business e-commerce portal. …
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TL;DR: In this paper, a universal variational principle on eco-industrial system is highlighted as: an eco industrial system always tries to find an optimal process to obtain maximized flux under given constraints.
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TL;DR: This tool is intended to explore the use of advanced interactive three-dimensional visualization in agent-based modeling, and the Java-based FAST model is currently under construction.
Abstract: Complex Adaptive Systems (CASs) can be applied to investigate complex infrastructures and infrastructure interdependencies. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a new CAS-based approach to the construction of models. The CAS agents within the Spot Market Agent Research Tool (SMART) and Flexible Agent Simulation Toolkit (FAST) ABMs allow investigation of the electric power infrastructure, the natural gas infrastructure, and their interdependencies. The Swarm-based SMART models use sets of agents and interconnections to represent electric power and natural gas systems. A prototype virtual reality (VR) interface has also been constructed for a version of the SMART model. This tool is intended to explore the use of advanced interactive three-dimensional visualization in agent-based modeling. The Java-based FAST model is currently under construction. FAST is a complete redesign of the SMART models that includes improvements in the modeling environment, model detail, and representational fidelity. Developing ABMs is difficult but can be rewarding.
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TL;DR: The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective and the ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance.
Abstract: Introduction .- Facing complexity: Prediction vs. adaptation .- Sociolinguistics: Towards a complex ecological view.- Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Towards an Integrative Linguistics.- An experientially-based informationless communication .- Conversation as emergent function .- Communication situations: A dialogic quiz? .-Education, emotion, complexity.- Minds and screens. Communication and socialization from a complexity perspective .- Self-organization in communicating groups: The emergence of coordination, shared references and collective intelligence .- General linguistics and communication sciences: Sociocomplexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag.- The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective .- The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance .- Ethics and Progress in Today's World . Sociocomplexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag.- The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective .- The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance .- Ethics and Progress in Today's World . Sociocomplexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag.- The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective .- The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance .- Ethics and Progress in Today's World . Sociocomplexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag.- The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective .- The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance .- Ethics and Progress in Today's World . Sociocomplexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag.- The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective .- The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance .- Ethics and Progress in Today's World . Sociocomplexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag.- The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective .- The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance .- Ethics and Progress in Today's World . Sociocomplexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag.- The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective .- The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance .- Ethics and Progress in Today's World . Sociocomplexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag.- The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective .- The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance .- Ethics and Progress in Today's World . Sociocomplexity as an integrative perspective .-The Fuzzy Complexity of Languag.- The emergence of complexity in language: An evolutionary perspective .- The ecology of pressures: Towards a tool to analyze the complex process of language shift and maintenance .- Ethics and Progress in Today's World .
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