Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
Decentralised detection of emergence in complex adaptive systems
... of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS), where non-deterministic inter- actions between agents can give rise to emergent behaviour or properties at the system ...these systems, means that ...
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Understanding Public Service Systems: Is there a role for Complex Adaptive Systems Theory?
... in complex adaptive ...processes. CAS theorists often refer to this as ‘self-organising’ ...of systems, namely that they will evolve towards a more ‘ordered’ ...
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Complex adaptive systems (CAS): an overview of key elements, characteristics and application to management theory
... of complex adaptive systems (CAS) relevant to implementing clinical governance, drawing on lessons from quality improvement programmes and the use of informatics in primary ...Results ...
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Understanding the dynamics of the Seguro Popular de Salud policy implementation in Mexico from a complex adaptive systems perspective
... analyze complex interventions as they are scaled up using a complex adaptive systems per- spective ...when systems change as a reaction to intervening as described above, with exam- ...
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Exploring Possible Links between Professional Learning Communities and Complex Adaptive Systems.
... to Complex Adaptive ...with Complex Adaptive Systems, and should therefore be considered factors that would lead me to have an affinity for Complex Adaptive ...
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Complex adaptive systems: a tool for interpreting responses and behaviours
... a CAS result in a system-wide governance of quality improve- ment because influence is exercised both by the system on the units, and by the units on the system, termed mutual ...Several CAS authors claim ...
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Collaborative decision making in urban regeneration: A complex adaptive systems perspective
... of complex public management domains that could be regarded as more easily understood using this ...that CAS theory offers an integrated framework with which to observe and understand, in a fresh manner, ...
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Decision Making Approaches for Complex Adaptive Systems in Built Environment
... On the other hand, the scheduling of building maintenance will be made by applying GA. Application of GA in scheduling is not a new concept, its applications include: job shop scheduling procedure (Davis, 1985, citied by ...
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Promoting good policy related leadership and governance of health related rehabilitation: a realist synthesis
... Healthcare systems may be conceptualized as complex adaptive systems (CAS) [18, 19], which are influenced by many factors, including service delivery, health workforce, information, ...
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Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: South African examples of a leadership of sensemaking for primary health care
... of complex adaptive systems and policy ...the systems – mind-sets, values, beliefs – where identify is created” [28], such leadership needs to mediate sensemaking and support changes in the ...
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Market concepts, coordination mechanisms and new actors in social housing
... a complex adaptive systems (CAS) one, building on a body of work from various authors (Boston 2000, Chapman 2002, Bankes 2005, Weber 2005) who have suggested that CAS is a ...
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Building resilient communities
... between complex adaptive systems models of resilience in ecology and studies related to resilience in relation to climate change; compared with the individualism of linear equilibrium models of ...
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The dynamics of academic entrepreneurship : connecting universities and the ecosystem
... To advance the field of academic entrepreneurship, the system, university and individual level can no longer be treated separately but need to be described and understood as an ecosystem in order to identify drivers and ...
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Teen Pregnancy: Ending the Cycle
... of complex adaptive systems was introduced as a way of gauging how to make the policy process more effective when it confronts complicated but essential human challenges to health and well ...
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Sustainable Development Requires an Integrated Design Discipline to Address Unique Problems
... This will be done by drawing on the behavior of non-linear complex adaptive systems as self-organizing emergent nature at the edge of chaos and re-interpret the design [r] ...
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Cognitive Study for Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Evidence from Chinese WeChat Communications
... Understanding the complexity of human language ultimately involves delving into the human mind. Biologically, self-organizing matter splits itself into meaningful coherent patterns, and its time-dependent behavior ...
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Polydomy : the organisation and adaptive function of complex nest systems in ants
... It seems intuitively obvious that spreading a colony over multiple nest sites makes the colony less reliant on the survival of any particular nest. This applies most obviously to polygynous species, but even in ...
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Macromolecular networks and intelligence in microorganisms
... are complex ecologies of single-cell organisms that may include hundreds of different species of algae, bacteria, protozoa, fungi and ...constitute complex and intricate structured bacterial com- munication ...
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Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: provider payment and service supply behaviour and incentives in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme – a systems approach
... Sampling was purposive. Participants for the national level key informant in-depth interviews were selected from the list of designers of the G-DRG payment method [28]. For regional and district primary data collection, ...
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On the Origin of Reverse Transcriptase Using CRISPR Cas Systems and Their Hyperdiverse, Enigmatic Spacer Repertoires
... FIG 1 Phylogeny of a representative set of reverse transcriptases encoded within CRISPR-cas loci. A maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree was reconstructed for 134 RT sequences using the FastTree program. SH ...
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