Recently, in both the neuroscience and adaptive behaviour communities, there has been growing interest in the interplay of multiple timescales within neural systems. In particular, the phenomenon of neuromodulation has received a great deal of interest within neuroscience and a growing amount of attention within adaptive behaviour research. This interest has been driven by hypotheses and eviden...

Complex Learning Communities (CLCs) where diverse groups or individuals come together to gain new knowledge, understanding or skills through social interaction are increasingly being developed to address complex social or economical problems (McDonald 2005a). These learning communities attempt to capitalise on the potential synergy between diverse groups of people to address multiple, diverse a...

In this paper we examine the application of a Complex Adaptive System (CAS) on studying the relative organizational effectiveness of Centralized and Decentralized Retail Chains. The criterion for the evaluation of this effectiveness is the rate of creation of new (innovative) ideas, related to management policies and practices, by the Shops of the Chain, which are the agents of the CAS Model. T...

inequalities in the social determinants of health (sdh), which drive avoidable health disparities between different individuals or groups, is a major concern for a number of international organisations, including the world health organization (who). despite this, the pathways to changing inequalities in the sdh remain elusive. the methodologies and concepts within system science are now viewed ...

Some of the most obvious complex adaptive systems are biological. A key concern in biology is how the overall properties of systems relate to the behavior of their components. Competition between these components in the form of an arms race, the “Red Queen effect”, for example, helps explain the trend towards more complex organisms, perhaps the most dramatic of macroevolutionary trends. The Red...

John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice is examined from the perspective of experimental methods in economics and complex adaptive systems simulations. This paper first discusses the justice principle selection process in Rawls’s representation of it as a hypothetical experiment. This hypothetical experiment fails to satisfy reasonable experimental controls, particularly as reflects the conception of ...

Systems to be developed in the future will likely be more complex than in the past. The number of behaviors a system can exhibit is one measure of system complexity. A complex system can be described as a large network of communicating subsystems.

Metals production and consumption networks are complex Large Scale Socio-Technical Systems, consisting of many technical installations, companies operating them, at a global scale, with large environmental impacts. Understanding their dynamics and behavior requires models that are capable of capturing technical, social, economic and other dimensions. Modeling in the metals domain has traditiona...