Managing Complexity: Insights, Concepts, Applications

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Dirk Helbing
Springer, 13/10/2007 - 393 páginas

Each chapter in Managing Complexity focuses on analyzing real-world complex systems and transferring knowledge from the complex-systems sciences to applications in business, industry and society. The interdisciplinary contributions range from markets and production through logistics, traffic control, and critical infrastructures, up to network design, information systems, social conflicts and building consensus. They serve to raise readers' awareness concerning the often counter-intuitive behavior of complex systems and to help them integrate insights gained in complexity research into everyday planning, decision making, strategic optimization, and policy.

Intended for a broad readership, the contributions have been kept largely non-technical and address a general, scientifically literate audience involved in corporate, academic, and public institutions.

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An Introduction
1
The Network Approach
18
Managing Autonomy and Control in Economic Systems
37
The Illusion of Control
57
Benefits and Drawbacks of Simple Models for Complex
89
Coping with Nonlinearity and Complexity
119
Repeated Auction Games and Learning Dynamics
137
Decentralized Approaches to Adaptive Traffic Control
177
Stefano Battiston Domenico Delli Gatti Mauro Gallegati 219
241
Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems
262
Complexity in Human Conflict
303
Fostering Consensus in Multidimensional Continuous Opinion
321
MultiStakeholder Governance Emergence
335
Evolutionary Engineering of Complex Functional Networks
350
Julian Sienkiewicz Agata Fronczak Piotr Fronczak Krzysztof
369
Index
389

Arne Kesting Martin Schönhof Stefan Lämmer Martin Treiber
201
Trade Credit Networks and Systemic Risk
218

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