Section A: ABM as an integrative framework for assessing the micro-macro link and the evolution of complex socio-ecological interactions

The brain is a complex adaptive system, processing information from the internal and external environment. Information is transmitted within the nervous system in at least 2 separate firing patterns, tonic and burst firing. Burst firing consists of closely spaced spikes at high frequency (eg 500 Hz) followed by quiescent periods. It has been proposed that burst firing is a signal detector, a ki...

Authoring of Adaptive Educational Hypermedia is a complex activity requiring the combination of a range of design and validation techniques. We demonstrate how Adaptive Educational Hypermedia can be transformed into CAVIAr courseware validation models allowing for its validation. The model-based representation and analysis of different concerns and model-based mappings and transformations are k...

The Minority Game is a simple yet highly non-trivial agent-based model for a complex adaptive system. Despite its importance, a quantitative explanation of the game's fluctuations which applies over the entire parameter range of interest has so far been lacking. We provide such a quantitative description based on the interplay between crowds of like-minded agents and their anti-correlated partn...

13 The focus of this review is to provide a thorough study of this link adaptation method particularly adaptive modulation and its related issues in various OFDM systems. The organization of this paper is as follows. Section II gives an overview of a typical OFDM system. Section III reviews significant adaptive modulation approaches contributed by several authors in detail. This section also in...

This research has two aims: (1) to bridge a gap in blended learning research — the lack of a systems approach to the understanding of blended learning research and practice, and (2) to promote a more comprehensive understanding of what has been achieved and what needs to be achieved in blended learning research and practice. To achieve these aims, we first assess the strengths and limitations i...

Overview The analysis of healthcare systems by considering them as complex adaptive systems (CAS) (Holland 2012) is a new and emerging field. The key idea is based on the inherent complexity of healthcare systems—in terms of the dynamics, nonlinearity, and unpredictability (Lipsitz 2012). While healthcare systems are naturally linked with CAS, there has always been a strong need for a compendiu...

This paper examines the relationship between the emergent order of Anglo-American common law and representative government, with the instrumental organizations which act within them, particularly parliament and statute law. Much like the sensory order emerges through our efforts to make use of a complex of experiential data, one step removed, the complex adaptive system of the social order emer...

The sciences of chaos and complexity include arcane investigations of complicated natural phenomena. Organizational applications of the sciences are no less complicated. Talented persons around the world are struggling to make sense out of the strange and surprising behaviors of complex adaptive systems in nature and in human organizations. This paper presents a brief introduction to some of th...

The paper stresses the need to emphasize social relationships in system design especially in systems that cross enterprise boundaries in a changing environment. The paper describes these systems as a new class of systems – complex adaptive systems. It describes ways to model collaboration networks in such systems both as the drivers of change and as indicators of knowledge requirements. The pap...