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Chapter 1 describes our world as fluid, dynamic, and uncertain. The prudent question to ask then is: What makes it so? In order to answer this question we first need to look at the architecture of the world itself, regardless of whether we are talking about the natural world or the social one.
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O’Brien, S., Hadžikadić, M., Khouja, M. (2013). Complexity: Where Does It Come from?. In: Hadzikadic, M., O’Brien, S., Khouja, M. (eds) Managing Complexity: Practical Considerations in the Development and Application of ABMs to Contemporary Policy Challenges. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 504. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39295-5_2
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