The global threat posed by the novel coronavirus presents a compelling new argument for using complex adaptive systems thinking to address our global challenges. These challenges emerge from a set of ...
Artificial Life (AL) and Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) represent interrelated fields that explore how individual, relatively simple entities – be they digital organisms, autonomous agents or ...
Fleming, L., and O. Sorenson. "Technology as a Complex Adaptive System: Evidence from Patent Data." Research Policy 30, no. 7 (August 2001).
What do economics, biological evolution, and democracy have in common? They are all complex adaptive systems. This realization reflects one of the core strengths of a diverse intellectual background – ...
Current design methods need a radical rethink. We must shift from a fail-safe design to safe-fail experiments. In my keynote at the KMWorld & Intranets Conference in September (available as a podcast ...
Scientific advances since the European Enlightenment in the 17th century and the technologies that have followed have given humans the hubris that they can master the very nature that created them.
C.S. Holling first introduced the concept of the adaptive cycle in 1986 to describe cycles of change in ecosystems. Movement through these phases is not rigid or predetermined. In the front part of ...