Introduction: co-evolution and complex adaptive systems in evolutionary economics

Strategic Management, Evolutionary Economics, and Complex Adaptive Systems

This chapter sketches a strategic map of a selection of the relevant issues at the intersection of economics, psychology, sociology, and evolutionary theories applied to strategic management. It takes an evolutionary complexity perspective, based on a (manageable) selection of the relevant literature. The discussion focuses on evolutionary processes of change and their implications for strategi...

Complex adaptive systems in ecology and evolution

Mitigating and managing anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems and their services poses a variety of important challenges: modern approaches to understanding such complex adaptive systems and their interactions with human interventions need to account for nonlinear feedbacks, discontinuities and break points, non-equilibrium dynamics, collective phenomena, systemic transitions, behavioral dynamics...

Adaptive and evolutionary mathematical models in economics

This paper provides a short overview of dynamic models, denoted as adaptive or evolutive, recently adopted in economics and social sciences to describe systems with heterogeneous and boundedly rational agents. Some simple mathematical formalizations are shown, and a comparison between this kind of emerging literature and the orthodox main stream paradigm based on the assumption of fully rationa...

Dual-phase evolution in complex adaptive systems.

Understanding the origins of complexity is a key challenge in many sciences. Although networks are known to underlie most systems, showing how they contribute to well-known phenomena remains an issue. Here, we show that recurrent phase transitions in network connectivity underlie emergent phenomena in many systems. We identify properties that are typical of systems in different connectivity pha...

Developing Adaptive Differential Evolution as a New Evolutionary Algorithm, Application in Optimization of Chemical Processes