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Complexity is an inherent attribute of any project. The purpose of defining and documenting complexity is to have an early warning tool allowing a project team to focus on certain areas and aspects of the project in order to prevent and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Alexei Botchkarev , Patrick Finnigan

We view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems. Here, we are concerned with the creation of these Digital Ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems to evolve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-02 Gerard Briscoe , Suzanne Sadedin , Philippe De Wilde

Systems Biology has emerged in the last years as a new holistic approach based on the global understanding of cells instead of only being focused on their individual parts (genes or proteins), to better understand the complexity of human…

A primary motivation for our research in digital ecosystems is the desire to exploit the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems. Ecosystems are thought to be robust, scalable architectures that can automatically solve complex,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-01-31 Gerard Briscoe , Philippe De Wilde

Complex Systems were identified and studied in different fields, such as physics, biology, and economics. These systems exhibit exciting properties such as self-organization, robust order, and emergence. In recent years, software systems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jan Žižka , Bruno Rossi , Tomáš Pitner

Organizational leaders are being asked to make high-stakes decisions about AI deployment without dependable evidence of what these systems actually do in the environments they oversee. The predominant AI evaluation ecosystem yields scalable…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Reva Schwartz , Gabriella Waters

As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve into interactive agents, understanding their behavioral alignment within human social dynamics becomes essential. While behavioral game theory offers a framework to study these interactions, previous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Inseo Jung , Yoonseok Oh , Kyungryul Back , Jinkyu Kim , Jungbeom Lee

The growing need for affordable and accessible higher education is a major global challenge for the 21st century. Consequently, there is a need to develop a deeper understanding of the functionality and taxonomy of universities and colleges…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Ryan C. Taylor , Xiaofan Liang , Manfred D. Laubichler , Geoffrey B. West , Christopher P. Kempes , Marion Dumas

Nowadays, both the amount of cyberattacks and their sophistication have considerably increased, and their prevention is of concern of most of organizations. Cooperation by means of information sharing is a promising strategy to address this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Roberto Garrido-Pelaz , Lorena Gozalez-Manzano , Sergio Pastrana

We identify the "organization" of a human social group as the communication network(s) within that group. We then introduce three theoretical approaches to analyzing what determines the structures of human organizations. All three…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-16 David Wolpert , Justin Grana , Brendan Tracey , Tim Kohler , Artemy Kolchinsky

The organizational structure of a network is investigated with a simulated precipitation model which does not make use of prior knowledge about the community structure of the network. The result is presented as a structure profile through…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-24 Zhenggang Wang , Kwok Yip Szeto

This early work aims to allow organizations to diagnose their capacity to properly adopt microservices through initial milestones of a Microservice Maturity Model (MiMMo). The objective is to prepare the way towards a general framework to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jean-Philippe Gouigoux , Dalila Tamzalit , Joost Noppen

It has been reported that virtual reality can be a useful tool for ergonomics study. The proposed integrated simulation system aims at measuring operator's performance in an interactive way for 2D control panel design. By incorporating some…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-09-05 Ying Wang , Wei Zhang , Fouad Bennis , Damien Chablat

Self-organization -- a characteristic of complex adaptive systems (CAS) -- has been explored in organizational research, in management theory [Mihm et al. 2003; von Foerster 1984], firm internationalization [Chandra and Wilkinson 2017],…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Ananya Sheth , Joseph V. Sinfield

We view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems, which are considered to be robust, self-organising and scalable architectures that can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-10-05 G. Briscoe , P. De Wilde

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled a new class of AI agents that automate multiple stages of the data science workflow by integrating planning, tool use, and multimodal reasoning across text, code, tables, and…

This article identifies a gap between the existence of a various psychometric tests approaches and other team performance assessment tools (e.g. business and management games). As a response to the lack of tools able to utilize the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Michał Okulewicz , Weronika Aniper , Bartłomiej Dach , Piotr Filarski , Piotr Jenczyk , Julita Ołtusek

We propose an abstract conceptual framework for analysing complex security systems using a new notion of modes and mode transitions. A mode is an independent component of a system with its own objectives, monitoring data, algorithms, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Edwin J Beggs , John V Tucker , Victoria Wang

Self-organization is a process where a stable pattern is formed by the cooperative behavior between parts of an initially disordered system without external control or influence. It has been introduced to multi-agent systems as an internal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Jieting Luo , Beishui Liao , John-Jules Meyer

Group behavior has received much attention as a test case of self-organization. There has been much written in recent years to investigate interactions within groups of agents. These agents can be animals moving in an interactive way, such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-14 Max D. Steel