Autonomic communications seek to improve the ability of network and services to cope with
unpredicted change, including changes in topology, load, task, the physical and logical …

This roadmap has been prepared as part of the activities of AgentLink III, the European
Coordination Action for Agent-Based Computing (IST-FP6-002006CA). It is a collaborative …

Abstract Information and communication technology (ICT) tools are increasingly being used
to implement foresight exercises. Until now, it has not been analyzed how this development …

Despite wide structural and functional differences, the laws that govern quantum solar
energy conversion to chemical energy or electricity share many similarities. In the …

Complexity science has seen increasing interest in the recent years. Many engineers have
discovered that traditional methods come to their limits when co** with complex adaptive …

This book deals with the potentials of social-ecological systems analysis for resolving
sustainability problems. Contributors relate inter-and transdisciplinary perspectives to …

Complexity and emergence are buzzwords in our modern world. But what do they mean?
And how can they help us to see and to understand the world in a different manner …

We present and develop the notion of 'universal psychometrics' as a subject of study, and
eventually a discipline, that focusses on the measurement of cognitive abilities for the …

How should organizations approach the evaluation of system complexity at the early stages
of system design in order to inform decision making? Since system complexity can be …

Agents can be defined as autonomous, problem-solving computational entities capable of
effective operation in dynamic and open environments. Agents are often deployed in …