Complexity Science

Chaos, Inc.
Quote: “Each of them is massively parallel: they have many quasi-independent “agents” interacting at once. (An agent might be a single firm in an economy or a baggage handler at an airline.) These agents are adaptive: they are constantly responding to each other (the baggage handlers interact with their bosses). And they are decentralized: no one agent is completely in charge (baggage handlers may not always follow management’s directives). Like all complex systems, then, the overall behavior of an airline’s freight operation emerges spontaneously from myriad low-level interactions.”
Comment: Very interesting - complexity science is a new term to me…but the concepts expressed and exlored are worth a quick read. The process involves mapping out low level interactions…creating agents…and then running complex simulations to evaluate how everything works together (and adjusting agent behaviour to evaluate impact on the whole “organism”)