Managing complexity
By: George Rzevski & Petr Skobelev
Contributors: Skobelev, Petr, author
Publisher: WIT Press; Wit Pr/Computational Mechanics; Witpress
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Southampton; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781845649364; 9781845649371
Subjects: Multiagent systems; Technological complexity; Management information systems
Description: The thesis of this book is that complexity of the environment in which we work and live offers new opportunities and that the best strategy for surviving and prospering under conditions of complexity is to develop adaptability to perpetually changing conditions. An effective method for designing adaptability into business processes using multi-agent technology is presented and illustrated by several examples, including adaptive, real-time scheduling of taxis, seagoing tankers, supply chains, and production processes. Additional case studies include adaptive servicing of the International Space Station, dynamic data mining, and distributed semantic processing.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (pages 188-191) and index.