Service platforms emerge as a dominant strategy for generating innovations. In this paper we argue that leveraging innovations on service platforms requires a careful trade-off between stimulating and controlling generativity. In order to gain a richer understanding of this duality we distill literature on generativity across disciplines. Our review yields two mechanisms for controlling generat...

Supporting the early phases of design requires, among others, support for the specification and use of multiple and evolving representations, and for the exchange of information between these representations. We consider a complex adaptive system as a model for the development of design representations, and present a semi-constructive algebraic formalism for design representations, termed sorts...

We may not be able to make you love reading, but a rapid introduction to adaptive filtering will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more boo...

Purpose: Integrated health and social care is necessarily complex since the competence needed for carrying out the task of care does not lie within one individual provider organization, but requires deliberate co-operation between different providers. In this world, the primary managerial task is variously seen as seeking the efficient administration of human and material resources, and achievi...

Abstract The wireless channel is characterized by large statistical variations, which results in wide variations in its response. If the system is designed to meet the worst conditions of the channel, the throughput will be very small and the efficiency will degrade. On the other hand, if the system is designed to track the channel variations, it will yield a larger throughput. In this work, we...

Self-organisation in nature is responsible for many complex and persistent phenomena. This suggests that self-organisation may be useful in the creation of complex applications. Multiagent systems use multiple agents to execute complex activities, and thus may be a basis for self-organising applications. In this paper we describe applications using self-organisation based upon the DIET multi-ag...

Complex adaptive systems are networks consisting of large numbers of interacting agents: for example, genes in an organism; neurones in a brain; ants in a colony; people in an organisation; readymix concrete plants, trucks and construction sites in a city. Such systems are adaptive in the sense that they evolve in order to survive and as they evolve they produce emergent outcomes in a spontaneo...

We solve problems and make decisions all day long: at home, at work, while playing. Some problems and decisions are very challenging: What is the best sequence of actions to reach a goal or the best itinerary to deliver orders given the weather, the traffic and the hour? How to choose the best time for a meeting knowing the availability of concerned people and meeting rooms with adequate materi...