Harnessing ComplexityBasic Books, 01/08/2008 - 208 من الصفحات Harnessing Complexity will be indispensable to anyone who wants to better comprehend how people and organizations can adapt effectively in the information age. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding the processes of variation, interaction, and selection that are at work in all organizations. The authors show how to use their own paradigm of "bottom up" management, the Complex Adaptive System-whether in science, public policy, or private commerce. This simple model of how people work together will change forever how we think about getting things done in a group. "Harnessing Complexity distills the managerial essence of current research on complexity. "A very valuable contribution to the emerging theory of competition and competitive advantage."-C.K. Prahalad, University of Michigan, coauthor of Competing for the Future "A brilliant exposition that demystifies both the theory and use of Complex Adaptive Systems."-John Seely Brown, Xerox Corporation and Palo Alto Research Center |
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الصفحة xiii
... problem, evolutionary computation has shed light on how complex systems can be adaptive. Second, there is the rapid growth of distributed and network-mediated computing (including the Internet), which has led computer science into ...
... problem, evolutionary computation has shed light on how complex systems can be adaptive. Second, there is the rapid growth of distributed and network-mediated computing (including the Internet), which has led computer science into ...
الصفحة xiv
... problems in which the preferences and even the identities of the participants can evolve over time, rather than situations in which the players and their preferences are fixed, as they are in game theory, and • in problems in which ...
... problems in which the preferences and even the identities of the participants can evolve over time, rather than situations in which the players and their preferences are fixed, as they are in game theory, and • in problems in which ...
الصفحة xvii
... problems of social design. We have benefited greatly from the many researchers working on complexity. Our task here is ... problem. His inventions, starting with the genetic algorithm (Holland, 1975), provided a systematic way to design ...
... problems of social design. We have benefited greatly from the many researchers working on complexity. Our task here is ... problem. His inventions, starting with the genetic algorithm (Holland, 1975), provided a systematic way to design ...
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... problems, you can spread what is learned to a population of co-workers, and you can see your company as one part of a population of businesses and consumers that you adapt to even while they are adapting to you. You can think about ...
... problems, you can spread what is learned to a population of co-workers, and you can see your company as one part of a population of businesses and consumers that you adapt to even while they are adapting to you. You can think about ...
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... software agents is generated and allowed to work on a problem. Each gets a score for its work based on some measure of success. The relatively effective ones are allowed to reproduce themselves. The 10 Harnessing Complexity.
... software agents is generated and allowed to work on a problem. Each gets a score for its work based on some measure of success. The relatively effective ones are allowed to reproduce themselves. The 10 Harnessing Complexity.
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