Managing Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems

Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems

Managing Socio-technical Interactions in Healthcare Systems

We put forward an architectural framework that promotes the externalisation of the social dimension that arises in software-intensive systems which, like in healthcare, exhibit interactions between humans (social components) and technical components (devices, computer-based systems, and so on) that are critical for the domain in which they operate. Our framework is based on a new class of archi...

Responding to complexity in socio-economic systems: How to build a smart and resilient society?

The world is changing at an ever-­‐increasing pace. And it has changed in a much more fundamental way than one would think, primarily because it has become more connected and interdependent than in our entire history. Every new product, every new invention can be combined with those that existed before, thereby creating an explosion of complexity: structural complexity, dynamic complexity, func...

Managing Complexity in Large Learning Robotic Systems

Autonomous learning systems of significant complexity often consist of several interacting modules or agents. These modules collaborate to produce a system which, when viewed as a whole, exhibit behaviour that can be interpreted in some way as learning. In designing these systems, the complexity of the interactions of large numbers of modules can become overwhelming, making debugging difficult ...

Managing interoperability and complexity in health systems.

In recent years, we have witnessed substantial progress in the use of clinical informatics systems to support clinicians during episodes of care, manage specialised domain knowledge, perform complex clinical data analysis and improve the management of health organisations' resources. However, the vision of fully integrated health information eco-systems, which provide relevant information and u...