Complex systems such as climate and the financial markets have both positive and negative feedback.
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He specifically questions whether complex systems could have evolved gradually through natural selection and random mutation.
Waechter has been moving JDSU from selling individual components to increasingly complex systems that carry higher margins.
Nowhere does it discuss how you get from artificial general intelligence to the ability to model complex systems.
But VTEL management was reluctant: It had a nice little business selling complex systems to schools and hospitals.
But VTEL's management was reluctant: It had a nice little business selling complex systems to schools and hospitals.
No one plays to read a manual or memorize complex systems in Warcraft, but players engage enough to learn.
The use of UUIDs lets firms manage complex systems where servers can be spread across different regions and continents.
Since the Three Mile Island disaster in 1979, it has become axiomatic to assume that complex systems fail in complex ways.
This non-linear tendency is why complex systems are more likely to follow a power-law probability distribution than the more familiar bell-curve distribution.
Look for GPU accelerated-CPUs to trickle down to other science labs, too, as it provides a cheaper way to model complex systems.
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His major insight is that simple approaches are more effective at managing complex systems than complex approaches in a world of uncertainty.
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Complex systems can actually become less certain over time as research reveals processes or complications that had not previously been understood or anticipated.
These were followed, more recently, by technologies of prosperity like the steam engine, the assembly line, and complex systems of communication, power and finance.
This approach has resulted in many cost and schedule over-runs, aborted implementations, and overly complex systems that are not used to their full potential.
They are also touting the processor as a solution for use in solving hard problems involving complex systems as well as number theory problems.
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In complex systems, the slightest variation in initial conditions can create large deviations in future system conditions over time and not necessarily in predictable ways.
Beyond those areas, Blazer says there is a demand for people who understand finance or supply chain logistics, who can build and supervise complex systems.
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Other racing nations have complex systems of incentives for their breeders.
Highly complex systems are complicated and time-consuming to figure out.
As someone who models the behavior of proteins and drugs in the pharmaceutical industry I am well aware of the limitations of models in predicting the behavior of complex systems.
The single biggest opportunity for more efficiency, for eliminating what is truly waste, resides in real-time, dynamic control of complex systems, from commercial buildings and engines to factories and homes.
Through the use of path-breaking museological itineraries, the museums will show their role in illuminating the rich and complex systems of cultural, technical and stylistic influences and exchanges between civilizations.
Legal systems are just one of many such complex systems that social entrepreneurs must navigate in order to be successful, but increasingly, they do not have to do it alone.
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Complexity science shows us that in complex systems, which groups are, for a positive emergence to occur there must be conditions of mutuality and a level playing field, diversity, and trust.
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The New England Complex Systems Institute said the Arab Spring was rooted in foot prices and predicts that the circumstances for civil disturbance will be ripe again in August 2013.
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The success of Gladwell's first book, "The Tipping Point, " published in 2000, and of his later work have come at a time when simple explanations of complex systems are in vogue.
Dr Meyer's flight of fancy shows that such computers could also operate comfortably in the area of game theory, with all that implies for modelling complex systems and, presumably, for games themselves.
This course is taught by Scott E Page, the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan where he directs the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
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