#1566439 in eBooks 2000-05-12 2001-01-19File Name: B002OK2OHG0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good change through directed evolutionBy PanchoComplexity is all around us. How can we use it to our advantage? The authors present a framework that allow "agents" (individuals, organizations, programs, etc.) or systems (interacting collections of agents) learn from their environment and thereby take advantage of complexity to grow, profit or reproduce.The framework involves the continual improvement of "strategies" (instructions). This improvFrom Publishers WeeklyIn a world where companies are forced to adapt to an ever more quickly changing marketplace, where people from diverse backgrounds must work together in order to solve problems rapidly and the future is hard to predict, wouldn't it be wonderful if all this complexity could workRecent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change. Building on evolutionary biology, computer science, and social design, Axelrod and Cohen have constructed a unique framework for i...
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