Coordinated Tension: The “Secret Sauce” to Enable Decision-Making in a Global Health Complex Adaptive System

2019 ◽  
pp. 187-205
Author(s):  
Robert C. Hausmann ◽  
Ferdinando Regalia ◽  
Emma Iriarte ◽  
Jennifer Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive

Decision-making in healthcare as a complex adaptive system

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Kuziemsky
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive

Supply Networks as a Complex Adaptive System: Toward Simulation-Based Theory Building on Evolutionary Decision Making

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Nair ◽  
Ram Narasimhan ◽  
Thomas Y. Choi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Supply Networks ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Complex Adaptive

Fractal House of Pharaoh: Ancient Egypt as a Complex Adaptive System, a Trial Formulation

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Lehner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Emergent Order ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Complex Adaptive

In addition to understanding small-scale societies in their own right "from a complex systems perspective" (Boekhorst and Hemelrijk this volume), workshop participants expressed a goal of using insights about the dynamics of small-scale societies to better understand the "evolution of state-like structures" (Small this volume), or "the 'emergence' trajectories by which a smallscale society, in its environment, may move autonomously from relatively simple (distributed, no ranking or centralized decision making) to complex (ranking/hierarchy, with centralized decision making and a degree of specialization)" (Doran this volume). Small-scale societies are seen as "preceding conditions" to the development of "rank vs. egalitarian ideologies" (Wright this volume) such as are found in archaic states. Ancient Egypt is a salient example of such an archaic state. In the comparative study of civilizations, ancient Egypt has stood out as the quintessence of a centralized nation-state ruling a large territory. Egyptologists often operate through a vision of ancient Egyptian society, whether explicit or assumed, as highly absolutist. Pharaoh's control of society is complete, effected through an invasive and pervasive centralized bureaucracy. Anthropologists, taking their cue from Egyptologists, see Egypt as one of the earliest examples of a unified nation-state, with a redistributive economy centrally administered over the entirety of the Egyptian Nile Valley. I offer a prospectus for approaching Egyptian civilization as a complex adaptive system (CAS) based on loose analogies with concepts of emergent order and self-organization. This a narrative exploration of ways that ancient Egyptian society may be amenable to the kind of agent-based modeling applied to small-scale societies. Although I recognize that in discussions of "complexity theory" there is nothing close to unanimity or an agreed paradigm (Wilson 1998), some of the more general concepts may at least offer insightful new ways to view social complexity in Egypt. My prospectus is a workin- progress. My sources for complex systems studies are "the literature of metaphor (e.g., Cowan et al. 1994), and the popularizations of metaphysics"; that is to say, what follows is most certainly in Morowitz's (1998) category of meta-metaphor (and I will try to refrain from "word magic").

scholarly journals When 'solutions of yesterday become problems of today': crisis-ridden decision making in a complex adaptive system (CAS)--the Additional Duty Hours Allowance in Ghana

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (suppl 4) ◽  
pp. iv20-iv31 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. Agyepong ◽  
A. Kodua ◽  
S. Adjei ◽  
T. Adam
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Duty Hours ◽  
Complex Adaptive
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