Like his mentor Fritjof Capra, who provides an introduction for the book, Lent seeks corroboration for this spiritual insight in what were once called the «new», non-deterministic sciences — the study of
complex adaptive systems in physics and biology, which find curious analogues in certain branches of mathematics.
However, in systems which behave
like complex adaptive systems i.e. prone to self correction, both mean reversion (negative feedback loops) and extreme outcomes (positive feedback loops) are a possibility.
Industry working groups, including a group run by one of us (Amin) while at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, Calif., have proposed
complex adaptive systems for large regional power grids.
«The way
complex adaptive systems work and the way mental constructs work is that problems frequently get easier, I'd even say usually are easier to solve, if you turn them around in reverse.
However, in systems which behave like
complex adaptive systems i.e. prone to self correction, both mean reversion (negative feedback loops) and extreme outcomes -LSB-...]
Evolution and economics are not just analogous to each other, but they are actually two forms of a larger phenomenon
called complex adaptive systems, in which individual elements, parts or agents interact, then process information and adapt their behavior to changing conditions.
The study is commissioned by the U.S. National Geospatial Agency to help U.S. Department of Defense agencies understand and model the interaction of
complex adaptive systems such as natural ecosystems, individual organisms, and human communities, organizations and families.
-LSB-...] The Education of A Speculator [2] Critical Mass [3] Complex Adaptive Systems [4] The Art of Systems Thinking [5] Value Investing, the Sanjay Bakshi -LSB-...]
Professor Katz received his Ph.D. in political science and public policy with a focus
on complex adaptive systems from the University of Michigan.
Increasingly, the social sciences frame policy problems from the financial system to the food system
as complex adaptive systems (CAS) and urge policy - makers to design legal solutions with CAS properties in mind.
Laudably, and perhaps surprising to some, the makers of this documentary understand that a key factor in any society's struggle to maintain
adequate complex adaptive systems, ours included, is the stories that we tell.
Dr. Anna D. Barker, Co-director,
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS); Director, National Biomarker Development Alliance; Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University Dr. Luis Diaz, Head, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
We value research from uncommon sources to help us understand the market as
a complex adaptive system.
When innovations of modern planned agriculture threatened to ruin the rice farmers, anthropologists came to understand that at work implicitly within traditional wisdom were chaos theories and
complex adaptive systems.
The CIRAD research team is continuing to work on the desert locust, in the aim of improving management of the pest by taking account of its many aspects and considering it as
a complex adaptive system.
Lansing calls this stable but changing harmony a «
complex adaptive system.»
Dynamics of social networks,
Complex Adaptive Systems, Part I (8) 2, 24 - 27.
Director of Computational Sciences and Informatics program for
Complex Adaptive Systems and Professor in the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Bill Miller views the stockmarket as
a complex adaptive system in which the future of a company can not be solely analyzed based on book value or P / E ratio.
NSL Capital Management, LLC is run by value investor Nicholas Southwick Levis and takes a probalistic approach to the markets, which we believe are
Complex Adaptive Systems.
What intrigues Munger so much is the often unexpected and spectacular output of
a complex adaptive system, which Michael Mauboussin describes as follows:
Stock Market —
A Complex Adaptive System Complex adaptive systems is a useful way to think about the stock market, since the market can be characterised as a weighing machine built on many investors» individual views and transactions (and their behavioural biases).
A complex adaptive system needs to have heterogeneity to function efficiently.
But neither energy infrastructure nor political economies are static; they are, rather, what theorists call «
complex adaptive systems.»
Or possibly a clue to how small changes can make big improvements in
complex adaptive systems?
I started by reflecting on the nature of what is involved in changing
a complex adaptive system like the justice system:
It has really helped me to understand the nature of
complex adaptive systems.
Foreign Investment Law as
A Complex Adaptive System, How It Emerged And How It Can Be Reformed
Also, his paper: «The Self as
a Complex Adaptive System: Part III: A revised view of development» has been accepted for publication by Psychoanalytic Social Work Journal.