How can we think the complex?

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This chapter does not deal with specific tools and techniques for managing complex systems, but proposes some basic concepts that help us to think and speak about complexity. We review classical thinking and its intrinsic drawbacks when dealing with complexity. We then show how complexity forces us to build models with indeterminacy and unpredictability. However, we can still deal with the problems created in this way by being adaptive, and profiting from a complex system's capability for selforganization, and the distributed intelligence this may produce.
Extensively revised version. 14 pages. Prepared for the book "Managing the Complex Volume One: Philosophy, Theory and Application" Richardson, Kurt (ed.)

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Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/96719

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0402023
 http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0402023
 In Richardson, Kurt (ed.) Managing Organizational Complexity: Philosophy, Theory and Application, Chapter 3. Information Age Publishing. 2005

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