Complex Systems

ContentsHarnessing the power of self-organisation; Discoveries on demand; Phenomena of functional differentiation and fractal functionality; Towards the autonomy of urban management: simple system as a solution for complex urban environment; On a maturity model for complexity, complex systems, and complex systems engineering; Emerging patterns in crowd streams and the aid of ABM for egress management; The impact and mitigation of complexity during product design; Unlocking complexity: big science project and research agenda; Approach to evaluate complexity in new product development projects; Technology platforms as a tool for solving complex innovation problems; The network organizational chart as a tool for managing organizational complexity; The closed-loop economy; Economic and technological priorities of competitive development of Russian systems of energy cogeneration sources; Exchange models for the emergence of income distribution and economic inequality; Reaching an alignment of programmes of social and economic development of a region and its fuel and energy balance plan; Agent-based modelling of offshore upstream petroleum logistics; Self-organization and emergence in global health. Insights from practice, blind spots and possible contributions from complexity science; Excess of social activity reduces the responsiveness of swarms; Health research, teaching and provision of care: applying a new approach based on complex systems and a knowledge translation complexity network model; The mature stomatognathic system is a complex adaptive system; Complex systems in human development: sexual dimorphism in teeth and fingerprints of Australian twins; A complex adaptive system in which environmental stress affects gene expression during development; Agents within a developmental complex adaptive system: intrauterine male hormones influence human tooth size and shape; Agents within a developmental complex adaptive system: intrauterine male hormones and dental arch size in humans; Transient induced global response synchronization; Mechanical characterization of bone allografts, enriched with mesenchymal cells