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Cancer as a complex adaptive system

Medical Hypotheses, 1996
The second leading cause of death in the USA is cancer. Institutions worldwide are devoting significant resources to the treatment of cancer, and the elucidation of the disease pathway. While great progress has been made in understanding and treating carcinogenesis, many aspects of the disease remain intractable.
E D, Schwab, K J, Pienta
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Complex Systems and Complex Adaptive Systems

2021
A system can be defined as “an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something” (Meadows 2009). It is a global and organized entity, made up of many different components, aimed at performing a certain function.
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The Web and Complex Adaptive Systems

20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 1 (AINA'06), 2006
The web continues to grow at a phenomenal rate and the amount of information on the web is overwhelming. Finding the relevant information remains a big challenge. Due to its wide distribution, its openness and high dynamics, the WWW is a complex system, for which we have to imagine mechanisms of content maintaining, filtering and organizing that are ...
Rupert, Maya, Hassas, Salima, Rattrout, Amjad   +2 more
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Responsible governance of generative AI: conceptualizing GenAI as complex adaptive systems

Policy & Society
Organizations increasingly use Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create strategic documents, legislation, and recommendations to support decision-making.
Marijn Janssen
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Is Echo a Complex Adaptive System?

Evolutionary Computation, 2000
We evaluate whether John Holland's Echo model exemplifies his theory of complex adaptive systems. After reviewing Holland's theory of complex adaptive systems and describing his Echo model, we describe and explain the characteristic evolutionary behavior observed in a series of Echo model runs.
Richard M. Smith, Mark A. Bedau
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Complex adaptive systems and nursing

Nursing Inquiry, 2007
Complex adaptive systems and nursingThere have been numerous references to complexity theory and complex systems in the recent healthcare literature, including nursing. However, exaggerated claims have (in my view) been made about how they can be applied to health service delivery, and there is a widespread tendency to misunderstand some of the ...
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Discovery in complex adaptive systems

Cognitive Systems Research, 2018
Abstract The distinction between ontological ground-truth phenomena and epistemic measurements of those phenomena is discussed and analyzed in the context of complex cognitive systems research. A common style of computational simulation is identified as a Dissect-the-Simulation motif.
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Modeling rangelands as spatially-explicit complex adaptive systems.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2020
Rangelands cover one third of the earth's land area, provide livelihoods for one billion persons, and most have been degraded by overgrazing of domestic livestock.
Hsiao‐Hsuan Wang, W. Grant, R. Teague
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Modeling Malaria as a Complex Adaptive System

Artificial Life, 1997
As the resistance of the malaria parasite to antimalarial drugs continues to increase, as does that of the malarial mosquito to insecticides, the efficacy of efforts to control malaria in many tropical countries is diminishing. This trend, together with the projected consequences of climate change, may prove to exacerbate substantially the ...
M. A. Janssen, W. J. M. Martens
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Exposing the attractors of evolving complex adaptive systems by utilising futures images: Milestones of the food sustainability journey

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017
Tuomas Kuhmonen
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