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Issue title: Complex Socio-Technical Systems – Understanding and Influencing Causality of Change

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Snowden, David

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: snowded@me.com

Abstract: This chapter establishes two typologies, one based on power laws and the other on complex adaptive systems theory, to provide a basis for understanding systems where it not possible to reduce uncertainty, only to absorb it. Those typologies are used to establish a framework within which different approaches to foresight can be distinguished. These range from systems models, through scenario planning to more recent techniques utilizing attractor landscapes and distributed cognition.

DOI: 10.3233/IKS-2012-0190

Journal: Information Knowledge Systems Management, vol. 10, no. 1-4, pp. 135-150, 2011