From the west, floodwaters would flow through an industrial complex that includes refineries and chemical plants, said van Heerden, who has studied computer models about the impact of a strong hurricane for four years.

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But the seats fell as they did in 2011, and although Labour have carefully concentrated on giving every impression of being a majority government when they're not, it means there are tricky times coming down the road when the big and complex pieces of legislation start to flow.

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Divided into teams of four, students spend the summer analyzing a complex problem such as a work-flow snag in the health care industry.

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Exhibit A in this regard is a technology called Intrusion Prevention Systems, or IPS. The premise of an IPS is that you can examine a network flow, and based on complex algorithms, identify and stop potential attacks on your infrastructure such as your web servers.

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People can interact with Nina, the virtual assistant for customer service apps, and carry on a complex set of instructions within the same conversation flow.

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Shane Carruth's 2004 film "Primer, " for example, is so complex and methodical that fanatical bloggers have posted flow charts containing thousands of words of plot summary.

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