Ebook: Managing Complexity: Insights, Concepts, Applications
- Tags: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Complexity, Technology Management, Systems and Information Theory in Engineering, Business Information Systems, Systems Theory Control
- Series: Understanding Complex Systems
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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.
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Managing Complexity: An Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Market Segmentation: The Network Approach....Pages 19-36
Managing Autonomy and Control in Economic Systems....Pages 37-56
Complexity and the Enterprise: The Illusion of Control....Pages 57-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Benefits and Drawbacks of Simple Models for Complex Production Systems....Pages 91-118
Logistics Networks: Coping with Nonlinearity and Complexity....Pages 119-136
Repeated Auction Games and Learning Dynamics in Electronic Logistics Marketplaces: Complexity, Bounded Rationality, and Regulation through Information....Pages 137-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Decentralized Approaches to Adaptive Traffic Control....Pages 189-199
Critical Infrastructures Vulnerability: The Highway Networks....Pages 201-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Trade Credit Networks and Systemic Risk....Pages 219-239
A Complex System’s View of Critical Infrastructures....Pages 241-260
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems....Pages 263-272
Coping with Information Overload through Trust-Based Networks....Pages 273-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Complexity in Human Conflict....Pages 303-320
Fostering Consensus in Multidimensional Continuous Opinion Dynamics under Bounded Confidence....Pages 321-334
Multi-Stakeholder Governance - Emergence and Transformational Potential of a New Political Paradigm....Pages 335-348
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Evolutionary Engineering of Complex Functional Networks....Pages 351-368
Path Length Scaling and Discrete Effects in Complex Networks....Pages 369-388
Back Matter....Pages 389-393
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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Managing Complexity: An Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Market Segmentation: The Network Approach....Pages 19-36
Managing Autonomy and Control in Economic Systems....Pages 37-56
Complexity and the Enterprise: The Illusion of Control....Pages 57-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Benefits and Drawbacks of Simple Models for Complex Production Systems....Pages 91-118
Logistics Networks: Coping with Nonlinearity and Complexity....Pages 119-136
Repeated Auction Games and Learning Dynamics in Electronic Logistics Marketplaces: Complexity, Bounded Rationality, and Regulation through Information....Pages 137-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Decentralized Approaches to Adaptive Traffic Control....Pages 189-199
Critical Infrastructures Vulnerability: The Highway Networks....Pages 201-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Trade Credit Networks and Systemic Risk....Pages 219-239
A Complex System’s View of Critical Infrastructures....Pages 241-260
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems....Pages 263-272
Coping with Information Overload through Trust-Based Networks....Pages 273-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Complexity in Human Conflict....Pages 303-320
Fostering Consensus in Multidimensional Continuous Opinion Dynamics under Bounded Confidence....Pages 321-334
Multi-Stakeholder Governance - Emergence and Transformational Potential of a New Political Paradigm....Pages 335-348
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Evolutionary Engineering of Complex Functional Networks....Pages 351-368
Path Length Scaling and Discrete Effects in Complex Networks....Pages 369-388
Back Matter....Pages 389-393
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