What is a Complex Adaptive System?

Posted June 5, 2017 by sgibbs

A brief explanation of the characteristics of Complex Adaptive Systems, with a few examples of activities that demonstrate these characteristics.

Contributed Resources
View the resource

Comments

Submitted by jchandler51 on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 09:00 · Permalink

The sword and shields simulation was harder to predict as each individual had many more options of choosing their sword and shield.  In order to model this it seems like one of the assumptions you need to make is that the  individuals make their choices sequentially or all at once based on the previous configurations. 

Unless otherwise licensed, all works accessible here are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Teachers with GUTS is partially funded by the National Science Foundation.