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Understanding Complex Systems

Insights, Concepts, Applications

By: Dirk Helbing (Editor)

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Hardcover | 5 November 2007

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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.

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Managing Complexity: An Introduction	p. 1
Markets and Business
Market Segmentation: The Network Approach	p. 19
Managing Autonomy and Control in Economic Systems	p. 37
Complexity and the Enterprise: The Illusion of Control	p. 57
Logistics and Production
Benefits and Drawbacks of Simple Models for Complex Production Systems	p. 91
Logistics Networks: Coping with Nonlinearity and Complexity	p. 119
Repeated Auction Games and Learning Dynamics in Electronic Logistics Marketplaces	p. 137
Traffic
Decentralized Approaches to Adaptive Traffic Control	p. 179
Critical Infrastructures Vulnerability: The Highway Networks	p. 201
Critical Infrastructures and Systemic Risks
Trade Credit Networks and Systemic Risk	p. 219
A Complex System's View of Critical Infrastructures	p. 241
Information Systems
Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems	p. 263
Coping with Information Overload through Trust-Based Networks	p. 273
Conflict and Consensus
Complexity in Human Conflict	p. 303
Fostering Consensus in Multidimensional Continuous Opinion Dynamics under Bounded Confidence	p. 321
Multi-Stakeholder Governance - Emergence and Transformational Potential of a New Political Paradigm	p. 335
Network Design
Evolutionary Engineering of Complex Functional Networks	p. 351
Path Length Scaling and Discrete Effects in Complex Networks	p. 369
Index	p. 389
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