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Complex Adaptive Systems

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The previous chapter has already shown that the deterministic view of the early chapters remains insufficient to address the complexity at the higher levels of the systems hierarchy of Boulding.

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Dekkers, R. (2015). Complex Adaptive Systems. In: Applied Systems Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10846-9_8

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