Artificial Life (AL) and Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) represent interrelated fields that explore how individual, relatively simple entities – be they digital organisms, autonomous agents or ...

Complex adaptive systems provide a unified framework for explaining ecosystem phenomena. In the past 20 years, complex adaptive systems have been sharpened from an abstract concept into a series of ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec 2018) (15 pages) The study of social-ecological systems (SES) has been significantly shaped by insights from research on complex adaptive systems (CAS). We ...

Fleming, L., and O. Sorenson. "Technology as a Complex Adaptive System: Evidence from Patent Data." Research Policy 30, no. 7 (August 2001).

“Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” Archimedes The perspective which emergence and complex systems give us comes across as limits on our thinking and powers.

This study examines the correlation between a Culture of Patient Safety as measured by hospital staff surveys and actual patient harm attributed to hospital performance. It is generally accepted by ...