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Managing Complexity: Insights, Concepts, Applications

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  • © 2008

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  • Unusual and well-edited collection of largely non-technical lectures and essays by authors from the industry, academia and the public sector

Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Managing Complexity: An Introduction

  2. Markets and Business

  3. Logistics and Production

  4. Traffic

  5. Critical Infrastructures and Systemic Risks

  6. Information Systems

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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • TU Dresden, Institut fr Wirtschaft und Verkehr, Germany

    D. Helbing

  • ETH Zurich Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modelling and Simulation, UNO D11, Universitätstr. 41, Switzerland

    D. Helbing

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