Managing Complexity: Insights, Concepts, Applications
Editors: Helbing, Dirk (Ed.)
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Each chapter in Managing Complexity focuses on analyzing real-world complex systems and transferring knowledge from the complex-systems sciences to applications in business, industry and society. The interdisciplinary contributions range from markets and production through logistics, traffic control, and critical infrastructures, up to network design, information systems, social conflicts and building consensus. They serve to raise readers' awareness concerning the often counter-intuitive behavior of complex systems and to help them integrate insights gained in complexity research into everyday planning, decision making, strategic optimization, and policy.
Intended for a broad readership, the contributions have been kept largely non-technical and address a general, scientifically literate audience involved in corporate, academic, and public institutions.
- Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Managing Complexity: An Introduction
Pages 1-16
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Market Segmentation: The Network Approach
Pages 19-36
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Managing Autonomy and Control in Economic Systems
Pages 37-56
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Complexity and the Enterprise: The Illusion of Control
Pages 57-87
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Benefits and Drawbacks of Simple Models for Complex Production Systems
Pages 91-118
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Managing Complexity: Insights, Concepts, Applications
- Editors
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- Dirk Helbing
- Series Title
- Understanding Complex Systems
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-75261-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-540-75261-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-75260-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-09453-8
- Series ISSN
- 1860-0832
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 393
- Topics
