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Emergence in Stigmergic and Complex Adaptive Systems
Complex systems have been studied by researchers from every discipline: biology, chemistry, physics, sociology, mathematics and economics and more. Depending upon the discipline, complex systems theory has accrued many flavors. We are after a formal representation, a model that can … Continue reading
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Complex Adaptive Systems in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
This article examines applications of complexity theory within the behavioral and social sciences. Specific attention is given to the fundamental characteristics of complex adaptive systems (CAS) — such as individuals, groups, and societies — including the underlying structure of CAS, … Continue reading
The Emergence of Complexity in Language: An Evolutionary Perspective
Like an increasing number of linguists and other scholars especially interested in the evolution and/or the ontogenetic development of language, the author claims that languages are complex adaptive systems (CAS). These have been characterized as reflecting complex dynamics of interactive … Continue reading
Posted in Complex adaptive systems, Complexity, Emergence, Evolution, Evolutionary complexity, Language
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Self-organization and the Emergence of Complexity in Ecological Systems
What explains the remarkable regularities in distribution and abundance of species, in size distributions of organisms, or in patterns of nutrient use? How does the biosphere maintain exactly the right conditions necessary for life as we know it? Gaia theory … Continue reading
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Consensus Building and Complex Adaptive Systems – A Framework for Evaluating Collaborative Planning
Consensus building and other forms of collaborative planning are increasingly used for dealing with social and political fragmentation, shared power, and conflicting values. The authors contend that to evaluate this emergent set of practices, a new framework is required modeled … Continue reading
The Learning Environment as a Chaotic and Complex Adaptive System
Thrivability is a novel concept describing the intention to go beyond sustainability, allowing a system to flourish. For a society or organization to be thrivable, educated, responsible acting agents are needed. Traditional education focuses on (efficient) reproduction of existing organised … Continue reading
Complexity: A Guided Tour
It is about the questions that fascinate me and others in the complex systems community, past and present: How is it that those systems in nature we call complex and adaptive—brains, insect colonies, the immune system, cells, the global economy, … Continue reading
Thinking in Groups
Is cognition an exclusive property of the individual or can groups have a mind of their own? We explore this question from the perspective of complex adaptive systems. One of the principal insights from this line of work is that … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Complex adaptive system, Distributed cognition, Emergence, Group cognition, Groups, Social network
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The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System Model for Organizations
This paper proposes a new model for organizations that live in a dynamic, complex environment. The model proposes to represent a new theory of the organization, one that starts with the fact that organizations are not metaphors of living systems … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptive organizations, Complex adaptive system, Intelligence, Living systems, Organizations
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Complexity Leadership in Bureaucratic Forms of Organizing – A Meso Model
We consider Complexity Leadership Theory in contexts of bureaucratic forms of organizing to describe how adaptive dynamics can work in combination with administrative functions to generate emergence and change in organizations. Complexity leadership approaches are consistent with the central assertion … Continue reading
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