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From Complexity in the Natural Sciences to Complexity in Operations Management Systems
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From Complexity in the Natural Sciences to Complexity in Operations Management Systems

by Jean-Pierre Briffaut
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
238 pages
5h 31m
English
Wiley-ISTE
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Index

A, B, C

  • agenthood
    • in the social world
      • cursory perspective, 62
      • social network, 64
    • in the technical world, 56
  • AI
    • current prospects, 43
    • historical development, 36
    • neural networks, 40
  • autopoiesis, 99
  • Bateson, Gregory, 50
  • BDI agent
    • coordination, 86
    • definition, 69
  • belief
    • and attitudes, 73
    • and logic, 82
    • definition of, 72
    • degrees of, 75
    • trust and truth, 79
  • Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 45
  • bifurcation, 161
  • Boulding, Kenneth, 27
  • change management
    • academic approach, 162
    • data deluge and information systems, 168
    • introduction, 159
    • social networks, 165
  • chaos
    • Big Data, 148
    • chemical systems, 16
    • MRCM (Multiple Reduction Copy Machine), 144
    • order out of chaos, 142
    • organization, 148
    • quadratic iterator, 127
  • CMM (coordinated management of meaning), 113
  • complexity
    • chaos, 19, 121, 194, 198
    • data governance and management, 182
    • levels of, 27
    • Santa Fe Institute, 11
  • coordination (agent)
    • multi-agent planning, 87
    • patterns, 86
  • cybernetics
    • first-order, 9
    • second-order, 48

D, E, F

  • DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Corporations), 107
  • Damasio, Antonio, 22
  • data deluge, see chaos (Big Data),
  • Descartes, René, 7
  • Dunbar, Robin, I., M., 166
  • emotions
    • Darwin and Keynes, 21
    • neurosciences, 22
  • forecasting and analytics, 153
  • Förster, Heinz von, 47

H, K, L, M

  • holism, 8
  • Kahneman, Daniel, 146
  • Luhmann, Niklas, 98
  • MAS (multi-agent system), 58, 88
  • Maturana, Humberto, 99
  • Moles, Abraham, 201
  • Morin, Edgar, 68, 200

N, O, P

  • negotiation patterns, 92
  • neurosciences, see emotions Ockham, William of, 4
  • organization
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