Complex systems

Since time immemorial humans have complained that life is becoming more complex, but it is only now that we have a hope to analyze formally and verify this lament.

At BAM, we use an 8 Dimension Scale-Linking framework to assess the health of any system. Said more efficiently, we try to understand things in their context. For instance, an excellent technique to…

Part One: Rendering Relationships Sign up to be alerted when Pencil Me In, my book on visual thinking, is available. I’m gone a little crazy for concept models. It started with when I wrote, How to…

Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions. It has applications in many fields of social science, and is used extensively in econ...

The interdisciplinary field of network science has attracted enormous attention in the past 10 years, although most results have been obtained by analyzing isolated networks. However many real-world networks interact with and depend on other networks.

In one of the classes I teach at CCA, students were confused by mental models, conceptual models, concept maps, etc. I ended up drawing a taxonomy for models on the whiteboard, and it may help othe…

I remember thinking, in the 1970s, that once people became aware of the ecological crisis -- disappearing species, polluted rivers, poisoned air -- that the necessary changes would be simple.

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Emergent properties in complex systems like the brain can seem like magic. But a consideration of the physics that makes up the system can help explain it (sort of).

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